Oh I see why you sent the PM now, Greg. Whenever I see handshake threads, my eyes glaze over, and I mosey along.
See if the sequence of turning things on might make a difference. If you turn the receiver on first when the problems happen, try to turn it on after the cable box.
Since this doesn't happen with the direct to TV connection, I just don't see this as a cable issue.
I think mtry is on the right track. When you wiggle, just how much are you wiggling?
As I said in the PM, Ive actually heard both ways for getting handshake to work better: either source first, or receiver first. crafts is explaining a good experiment to try, just in case.
Now, lets say the Sat has to be turned on last. And you find that out, and lets pretend it DOES work. Then yet another problem you might have occuring is, say for example, you switch sources to something else, ie bluray, but then an hour later you switch back to STB . . . welp, you gotta turn off the STB, and turn it back on for this handshake to work. Its happened to others.
What's interesting, at least when Im paying attn, it seems that most sat boxes work just fine, and that its cable boxes that often lack hdcp repeaters.
Let us know how it works out.
And the worst case scenario is running it direct to display. Yeah, its ONE more button on a remote to press, but hey. You have nothing to lose in AV quality, possibly something to gain, and possibly easier calibration of video per source input.
-jostenmeat
