03-22-2011, 02:10 PM
A lot of devices (receivers, cable/sat boxes, BluRay players and TVs) with HDMI don't strictly adhere to HDMI specifications. Or if they do, they meet different levels of HDMI specifications.
I have a Harman/Kardon AVR3600 that does HDMI switching and video processing including upscaling. My Samsung TV does not like the processed video coming through the H/K from some sources like the DirecTV box. So, I have to set the H/K to allow the video to pass through unprocessed. This completely sucks and defeats the purpose of buying a receiver that can do this. The Samsung TV does not have the same problem when the source is the Samsung BluRay player. I recently switched to cable and ditched DirecTV to fix the problem.
But it turns out that the problem is the Samsung TV. From what I've read, Samsung does not adhere to HDMI specifications (at least on some devices) and they also don't want to pay to have their products certified as compatible with the various HDMI standards, so they wing it - and this is the result.
IMHO, while the video quality over HDMI is superior, it seems to be very half-baked in implementation.
My point is, what you want to do SHOULD work, but I'm not surprised to hear of flakiness. Some device in your chain is doing its own thing with HDMI.
I have a Harman/Kardon AVR3600 that does HDMI switching and video processing including upscaling. My Samsung TV does not like the processed video coming through the H/K from some sources like the DirecTV box. So, I have to set the H/K to allow the video to pass through unprocessed. This completely sucks and defeats the purpose of buying a receiver that can do this. The Samsung TV does not have the same problem when the source is the Samsung BluRay player. I recently switched to cable and ditched DirecTV to fix the problem.
But it turns out that the problem is the Samsung TV. From what I've read, Samsung does not adhere to HDMI specifications (at least on some devices) and they also don't want to pay to have their products certified as compatible with the various HDMI standards, so they wing it - and this is the result.
IMHO, while the video quality over HDMI is superior, it seems to be very half-baked in implementation.
My point is, what you want to do SHOULD work, but I'm not surprised to hear of flakiness. Some device in your chain is doing its own thing with HDMI.