The Yamaha RX-V663 thread. HDMI 1.3 upconversion, TrueHD, DTS MA decoding. - Page 368

Thank you Krik.
I have managed to improve things even though not yet "there" .
Anyways.. in few months the warranty of my TV will be over and I shall try some black tweaking, as seen somewhere on the forum.

I use an AC Ryan media player that plays a 3D 1080P MKV file connected with HDMI 1.3 (22AWG cable) to the Panasonic 3D TV and it works.

Hi Just wanted to report in about how my Yammie 663 has BESTED the Denon 1910 in the crucial area of communicating with D*TV. The Denon just could NOT start synchronizing anything without my having to reboot or unplug every equipment cables to it...the HDMI just did not want to synch with Denon. after couple of months of hearing complaints from my kids, I switched the Denon AVR with my 663 from my bedroom and poof! everything works smoothly. Gotta hand it to the Yamaha...they had built good AVRs and made them sound good too!

Is there a way to play "pure direct" in 2 channel mode?

I was playing around with my 663 the other night during the CMA's and was disappointed to find that pure direct was playing through at least my center channel and maybe the surrounds too.

My front L/R are better speakers than my center and surrounds so I would prefer to use the 2 channel for music.

Thanks.

Pure Direct just sends each channel to its own speaker. If more than two speakers are playing then the source was probably 5.1. If processing was done to change that it wouldn't be "Pure Direct" any more.

What you want is 2ch Stereo mode. It'll downmix multi channel sources to stereo and just use the front speakers.

Does anyone know off the top of their head weather this receiver supports HDMI ARC? I'm under the impression that it doesn't, and I couldn't find any references to it in the manual, but I wanted to make sure. I'm planning on getting a new "smart" TV, so if it doesn't support it, I guess I'll just have to use my PS3 to watch Netflix, not that that's a huge deal.

There's no ARC (that was new in HDMI 1.4, and the 663 is HDMI 1.3). But your TV might still have an optical audio out that you can connect to the 663 (although that might not give you 5.1).

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought. I highly doubt the TV will output 5.1 over optical, so I guess I'll just stick to using the PS3 to stream Netflix and whatnot. No biggie.

The TV will prob. output 5.1 over optical. My Panny does with their Netflix app and since it's not high res audio it's no loss of quality from not being able to use HDMI. You just have to be aware that a lot of things are not sent out in 5.1 anyway.

Ahhhh, thanks for that info. I'm looking at replacing an almost 10 year old RP-CRT with a Panasonic plasma. Maybe I just need to convince my wife to let me upgrade my receiver at the same time.