Hi,
I am hoping somebody may be able to help me along here a little - I am not that familiar with the latest A/V equipment and how you connect everything - getting frustrated, been at it all day. I bought a Marantz SR6003 A/V receiver before chistmas and am just now - today - getting around to connecting everything - had to finish the room and mount the 5.1 surround sound system on the walls and run the cables etc... The speakers are M&K, K5's - for rears, K7's for front and center and a K9 S/W. My TV is a Samsung 46" LCD LN-T4665F, about a year old or so, and the DVD is a PS3. My problems are: I cannot get the TV and receiver to recognize/operate together - basically a blank screen with sound when playing a DVD. I can get the HDMI cable box to operate through the receiver onto the TV with sound and visuals. The Marantz manual might as well be written in Chinese - just not written for someone who is not savy about all things A/V. The receiver has three HDMI inputs and two outputs, I have the TV in the first HDMI input, the DVD is connected to the second HDMI input and the cable is connected to the third HDMI input. Does the TV HDMI cable connect to the receivers input or output - tried both with no difference? The manuals says absolutely nothing about where the TV should plug in? It does say something about the TV needing to support HDCP to veiw images in HDMI - could this be the issue? Also, and this one is really driving me nuts, I initially had surround sound from the DVD's at least but now it only wants to play in stereo, no back, S/W or center speakers. Any idea on why the audio is now in stereo instead of surround sound when playing a DVD - the speakers connections are all tight and correctly connected? I even tried using the Audyssey auto speaker setup which identified the surround setup up but the receiver will still only play DVD's out the front speakers - no surround. I'm ready to fix everything with a sledge hammer - any help/suggestions would be very much appreciated. I have read through the manual several times and tried many different options to no avail.
Thanks,
Bill
I am hoping somebody may be able to help me along here a little - I am not that familiar with the latest A/V equipment and how you connect everything - getting frustrated, been at it all day. I bought a Marantz SR6003 A/V receiver before chistmas and am just now - today - getting around to connecting everything - had to finish the room and mount the 5.1 surround sound system on the walls and run the cables etc... The speakers are M&K, K5's - for rears, K7's for front and center and a K9 S/W. My TV is a Samsung 46" LCD LN-T4665F, about a year old or so, and the DVD is a PS3. My problems are: I cannot get the TV and receiver to recognize/operate together - basically a blank screen with sound when playing a DVD. I can get the HDMI cable box to operate through the receiver onto the TV with sound and visuals. The Marantz manual might as well be written in Chinese - just not written for someone who is not savy about all things A/V. The receiver has three HDMI inputs and two outputs, I have the TV in the first HDMI input, the DVD is connected to the second HDMI input and the cable is connected to the third HDMI input. Does the TV HDMI cable connect to the receivers input or output - tried both with no difference? The manuals says absolutely nothing about where the TV should plug in? It does say something about the TV needing to support HDCP to veiw images in HDMI - could this be the issue? Also, and this one is really driving me nuts, I initially had surround sound from the DVD's at least but now it only wants to play in stereo, no back, S/W or center speakers. Any idea on why the audio is now in stereo instead of surround sound when playing a DVD - the speakers connections are all tight and correctly connected? I even tried using the Audyssey auto speaker setup which identified the surround setup up but the receiver will still only play DVD's out the front speakers - no surround. I'm ready to fix everything with a sledge hammer - any help/suggestions would be very much appreciated. I have read through the manual several times and tried many different options to no avail.
Thanks,
Bill