Yamaha's solution to the buggy HDMI2.1 Problem

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Yamaha Announces Fix For Its AV Receiver HDMI 2.1 Bug

And this time you’re not going to need an external converter box

www.forbes.com

 

[ryanosaur]

We've been talking about this here:

Yamaha AVENTAGE 2021 AV Receivers Bulk Up on Power and 8K Features

The new Yamaha AVENTAGE AV receivers for 2021 come armed to the teeth in new features and performance to put its competition on notice. 2021 lineup of Yamaha AV AVENTAGE receivers including the RX-A8A, RX-A6A and RX-A4A. The new lineup offers 11-, 9- and 7-channels, respectively. Yamaha says...

forums.audioholics.com

And here, too:

HDMI 2.1 Chipset Bug in AV Receivers Causing Gaming Problems

Yesterday a German audio website discovered a bug in the latest HDMI 2.1 chipsets sourced by Panasonic and utilized in the new Denon, Marantz and Yamaha HDMI 2.1 AV receivers. This bug can inhibit pass through of 4k/120Hz HDR and 8k/60 HDR for some devices like NVIDIA's newest graphics cards and...

forums.audioholics.com

Still a lot in the air!

 

[Trebdp83]

And, if you want to blow some hot air along with some of those with affected models, you can go here.
Yamaha RX-V6A/TSR-700 views?

 

[cerwinmad]

Much better solution than a solo input dongle. Now do I bother upgrading my RXV4A, since I'll never use the function?

 

[highfigh]

Who will be the first to say that HDMI needs to go away?

They make this crap work in a lab somewhere and decide to take it to market, but in the wild, the conditions that allow new HDMI standards to work don't exist. Why can't those pinheads understand this?

 

[Trebdp83]

They care only about new versions of HDCP. As long as that works, they care little about the rest. No standards means no guaranteed compatibility. Let’s start with just one rule for the next round. Nobody gets to add a “feature” of the new spec to their gear until the spec is fully tested and final.

 

[highfigh]

They care only about new versions of HDCP. As long as that works, they care little about the rest. No standards means no guaranteed compatibility. Let’s start with just one rule for the next round. Nobody gets to add a “feature” of the new spec to their gear until the spec is fully tested and final.

I met with a homeowner in late-2006, to discuss doing some work on their audio/video and as we talked about the needs and equipment, he asked if I was planning to use HDMI and I said I wasn't. When he asked for my reasons, I said "Not until they fix all of the problems or I have no choice".

Fifteen years later, they still haven't fixed the problems with it and they keep adding to what it (as a cable) needs to carry. There's no push-back, so it will never change as they blunder along.