So after no movies for the past year I finally decided just to pull my latest Onkyo off the rack and replace it with yamaha. I built my movie room 16 years ago in a large room in the basement that has no direct sunlight. I had gone to some theater stores and got some education. So I put in riser and prewired the whole 9. I got very good pieces of equipment. I had about 10k in audio video when I was done.
Now for the HDMI issues. Out of the blue my first Onkyo quit working and gave me "no signal". The first call was to onkyo and it was over a year so no help there. I sent it to certified repair center and was told I had a power surge that fried the hdmi ports so they had to be replaced. Ok what ever... cost was about 35% of a new one. Maybe a year later it was doing same thing, only this time the Epson projector stopped also. Sent both in and was told power surge. And it traveled up the hdmi and got the projector. But the projector couldnt be fixed because it was part of mother board. So I got everything back and gave receiver to a friend and got a new onkyo. I found a place in California that claimed they did board level repairs. 4 months later they sent me a duplicate projector because they finally admitted they couldnt do it and that they had an identical one on the shelf.
So Im going along until the new Onkyo did the exact same dang thing. Sent it for repair. Got it back and was going along until the projector went down. I was done with epson home cinema and picked up a less expensive projector that had good reviews. Very impressed with it period. Then we are up to a year ago when the current onkyo gave the "no signal" resolution error once again. So I quit watching movies. So a couple weeks ago I was tired of walking through the movie room to get to the game room so I started researching receivers.
Now thats when I ran across the HDMI 2.0 2.1 story. As I understand there is a defective HDMI chip / board at least with onkyo and maybe others. That made me quite angry but nothing I can do except never buy from them again at least. But then saw they filed bankruptcy
I bought a refurbished Yamaha 700. Do I need to be worried about this one also? I have the latest firmware update downloaded and when I hook it up that is one of the first things Im doing. I really liked the way the onkyo's sounded when they worked although the menus were ridiculous.
rant is over. hope to have some movies to watch soon.
Now for the HDMI issues. Out of the blue my first Onkyo quit working and gave me "no signal". The first call was to onkyo and it was over a year so no help there. I sent it to certified repair center and was told I had a power surge that fried the hdmi ports so they had to be replaced. Ok what ever... cost was about 35% of a new one. Maybe a year later it was doing same thing, only this time the Epson projector stopped also. Sent both in and was told power surge. And it traveled up the hdmi and got the projector. But the projector couldnt be fixed because it was part of mother board. So I got everything back and gave receiver to a friend and got a new onkyo. I found a place in California that claimed they did board level repairs. 4 months later they sent me a duplicate projector because they finally admitted they couldnt do it and that they had an identical one on the shelf.
So Im going along until the new Onkyo did the exact same dang thing. Sent it for repair. Got it back and was going along until the projector went down. I was done with epson home cinema and picked up a less expensive projector that had good reviews. Very impressed with it period. Then we are up to a year ago when the current onkyo gave the "no signal" resolution error once again. So I quit watching movies. So a couple weeks ago I was tired of walking through the movie room to get to the game room so I started researching receivers.
Now thats when I ran across the HDMI 2.0 2.1 story. As I understand there is a defective HDMI chip / board at least with onkyo and maybe others. That made me quite angry but nothing I can do except never buy from them again at least. But then saw they filed bankruptcy
I bought a refurbished Yamaha 700. Do I need to be worried about this one also? I have the latest firmware update downloaded and when I hook it up that is one of the first things Im doing. I really liked the way the onkyo's sounded when they worked although the menus were ridiculous.
rant is over. hope to have some movies to watch soon.