My RX-V1500 died, so Yamaha gave me a free upgrade to an old, yet improved model, the RX-V1600. I am attempting to set it up, but am having a problem with my DVD player over HDMI. The DVD player is a Denon DVD-1920. It has an HDMI out, which I wanted to use to connect to the RX-V1600. I have the RX-V1600 connected to my Samsung DLP via HDMI. I know that connection works because my cable box to receiver connection (via component) displays fine on the tv.
However, I cannot get the DVD signal to pass to the tv. The tv says it is waiting for a signal even though both the DVD player and the receiver are on. Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated. I can always go back to component from the DVD player to the receiver, but I would like to use HDMI.
Try plugging the HDMI straight from the DVD player to the TV. If you still dont get a picture, then your DVD player settings have to be changed perhaps to use the HDMI connection. Something of the sort.
I know this is probably simple but are you sure your signal input selector on your Yamaha is on the proper input for the DVD-HDMI in? I think those inputs are assignable based on the HDMI source so the DVD input signal on your Yamaha may actually be on a different source such a AUX/VID etc? Flip the selector around and see if the source is somewhere else.
Thank you to everyone. Nick K was exactly right. There was a setting on the DVD player that I needed to set. I had never used it before because I had never before used the HDMI port. I had previously looked in all of the menus while connected via component, however that is not where the option was located. It was actually a button on the front of the DVD player itself; conveniently labled "HDMI". Imagine that!! That button allows you to choose 480P, 720P or 1080. I selected 720P, as that is what my DLP displays, and it worked perfectly. The picture looks good.
I've got a 720p TV as well, and basically it scales everything to 720p from 1080i. So feeding it a 1080i signal is best since the image is scaled one less time.