Onkyo TX-SR609 + 42" Sceptre TV incompatible over HDMI

[jinjuku]

I've always known there is an outside possibility of Brand X AVR and Brand Y TV/DVD/BR Player/Cable box not playing nice and I found it.

Onkyo connected to the TV and it won't even display the GUI overlay. I reset the Onkyo, tried multiple inputs on TV, nada.

The Onkyo is updated to the most resent firmware and I didn't see anything available for the TV. Verified the AVR works on another TV.

Crap. I told by buddy he'll have to sell the Onkyo and try another brand.

 

[Adam]

I just perused the 609 manual. Did you have the Onkyo and TV connected via HDMI (it's the only connection that will work with the OSD)? Also, did you have an HDMI input source selected when you tried to see the menus? The manual is, shall we just say, concise on the matter - but it does say that the OSD may not be displayed if an HDMI input is selected.

 

[jinjuku]

Of course. I also brought it to another TV and OSD works.

 

[Adam]

Of course.

Sorry, should have read your mind. I was trying to be patronizing, man. I didn't know if you'd seen that part of the manual.

 

[mtrycrafts]

... I also brought it to another TV and OSD works.

TV issue it seems, not Onkyo

 

[jinjuku]

Verified the AVR works on another TV.

Sorry, should have read your mind.

Don't worry about reading my mind

 

[jinjuku]

TV issue it seems, not Onkyo

Agreed. Mulling over options now. Just never hit this before and I've done plenty of setups.

 

[Adam]

I was trying to be patronizing, man.

Oops. I meant "wasn't."

 

[Pyrrho]

... I was trying to be patronizing, man. ...

Oops. I meant "wasn't."

Sure, we all believe you, and do not imagine that it was a Freudian slip.

 

[Adam]

Sure, we all believe you, and do not imagine that it was a Freudian slip.

If you saw some of the typos that I miss...man, Freud would have flipped just contemplating what it all means. Because we all know that he would be hanging out here with the cool kids.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

TV issue it seems, not Onkyo

Agreed. Mulling over options now. Just never hit this before and I've done plenty of setups.

+1 to blaiming the TV. Sceptre is really the bottom of the barrel. Sorry for the blasphemy, but I would rather get LG over Spectre/Coby/Memorex/Philips/Magnavox and etc.

 

[TLS Guy]

I've always known there is an outside possibility of Brand X AVR and Brand Y TV/DVD/BR Player/Cable box not playing nice and I found it.

Onkyo connected to the TV and it won't even display the GUI overlay. I reset the Onkyo, tried multiple inputs on TV, nada.

The Onkyo is updated to the most resent firmware and I didn't see anything available for the TV. Verified the AVR works on another TV.

Crap. I told by buddy he'll have to sell the Onkyo and try another brand.

Obviously those Sceptre TVs are not HDCP certified and we have more junk TVs proliferating. Whatever I have said about Onkyo, I know they are HDCP certified.

So the great Panasonics disappear and junk proliferates. Just wonderful!