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Okay, my sister just bought this receiver, and she''s hooked everything up, but I have a couple of questions, and I don''t really know who to ask, so I''m posting here...
1-Our goal is to have the receiver handle all audio and video. So we hooked up the receiver's component video out to the TV''s component video in (which is the TV''s Video2 input). Then we found that only things that are hooked into the receiver's component video in plugs will be displayed. So we had to hook up an s-video cable (from the receiver's Monitor out to the TV''s Video1 in) to have all of the other components display on the TV. My question is: Why won''t EVERYTHING that the receiver has coming into it be displayed out through that component video out? Why do you have to have 2 monitor outputs hooked up? Doesn''t that defeat the purpose? You still have to switch your TV from vid1 to vid2 to watch DVDs!
2-Her multi-channel decoding (the blue light) isn't coming on. Even when playing DVDs that are 5.1. The auto format decoder doesn't recognize this source as being a 5.1 signal, even though the DVD player is hooked up through an orange digital co-ax (the 985 doesn't have an optical IN for DVD for some unknown reason). I'm thinking it may be because the DVD player and the receiver BOTH have digital decoders in them. Should we turn the one in the DVD player off? The sound is coming through, but it's not recognizing that it's 5.1. Even when you force the mode to recognize 5.1, the blue light still doesn''t come on.
3- The receiver doesn't "remember" audio settings. Like if we set the tuner to 2CH mode, then go to the DVD player and set that mode to AFD, then come back to the Tuner, it won''t be in 2CH mode. weird, eh?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-spack
1-Our goal is to have the receiver handle all audio and video. So we hooked up the receiver's component video out to the TV''s component video in (which is the TV''s Video2 input). Then we found that only things that are hooked into the receiver's component video in plugs will be displayed. So we had to hook up an s-video cable (from the receiver's Monitor out to the TV''s Video1 in) to have all of the other components display on the TV. My question is: Why won''t EVERYTHING that the receiver has coming into it be displayed out through that component video out? Why do you have to have 2 monitor outputs hooked up? Doesn''t that defeat the purpose? You still have to switch your TV from vid1 to vid2 to watch DVDs!
2-Her multi-channel decoding (the blue light) isn't coming on. Even when playing DVDs that are 5.1. The auto format decoder doesn't recognize this source as being a 5.1 signal, even though the DVD player is hooked up through an orange digital co-ax (the 985 doesn't have an optical IN for DVD for some unknown reason). I'm thinking it may be because the DVD player and the receiver BOTH have digital decoders in them. Should we turn the one in the DVD player off? The sound is coming through, but it's not recognizing that it's 5.1. Even when you force the mode to recognize 5.1, the blue light still doesn''t come on.
3- The receiver doesn't "remember" audio settings. Like if we set the tuner to 2CH mode, then go to the DVD player and set that mode to AFD, then come back to the Tuner, it won''t be in 2CH mode. weird, eh?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-spack