Question on hdmi hookup to cable box

[Grant Nack]

I hooked up all Hdmi components to my New Denon AVR2310CI receiver, and then out to tv one cable like you are supposed to do. All my units work, except my cable box/ DVR box. The tv says it is not receiving a signal. I have hooked box directly to tv, and this works, but I want everything to go through receiver!

 

[sawzalot]

I am not 100 % sure but I think you have to hook up your cable box the simplest way possible so that you can see the menu screen again then select the proper output for the hdmi or maybe it will be it will say digital output and you select hdmi, then it should work through the receiver.

 

[TLS Guy]

I hooked up all Hdmi components to my New Denon AVR2310CI receiver, and then out to tv one cable like you are supposed to do. All my units work, except my cable box/ DVR box. The tv says it is not receiving a signal. I have hooked box directly to tv, and this works, but I want everything to go through receiver!

Who is your provider? Cable and satellite boxes are not HDCP certified. The companies are too miserly to spend the money for certification. The result is that many of them do not have the correct repeater codes, so will work with and end device like a TV but not an outputting device like a receiver.

We have had most trouble with Atlantic cable and Time Warner.

If you can see a picture on your TV but not via your receiver than out of compliance HDCP codes is almost certainly your problem. So you will have to ask your provider, to give you their latest box or give your box a software update.

 

[Grant Nack]

Thanks for the help, Charter communications is my provider. Calling them is not something I enjoy, they take 15 min to understand what the hell I am talking about. They act like i am the only person who hooks their box up through a receiver!

 

[PENG]

Are you sure you have assigned and set up that input correctly? Just to double check, you could try using one fo the input that works, select that input and see if you get anything on the TV.

 

[markw]

Two suggestions.

First, what TLS said is true.

Try avoiding this by connecting the cable box to the receiver using component cables and a digital audio link. Many cable boxes output up to 1080i via component. Let the receiver do the upscaling/upconversion to HDMI.

While this is not as sexy as HDMI, you will lose nothing, picture quality or sound wise.

Thanks for the help, Charter communications is my provider. Calling them is not something I enjoy, they take 15 min to understand what the hell I am talking about. They act like i am the only person who hooks their box up through a receiver!

"We" don't have the answers to everything. You may have no choice. Learn to roll with the punches.

 

[Grant Nack]

Right now I have the cable box hooked directly to tv, and a optical back to receiver, am I losing anything that way? I will try the component route. thanks

 

[Grant Nack]

Are you sure you have assigned and set up that input correctly? Just to double check, you could try using one fo the input that works, select that input and see if you get anything on the TV.

My blue ray works routed through the denon, but the cable box does not!

 

[bandphan]

Right now I have the cable box hooked directly to tv, and a optical back to receiver, am I losing anything that way? I will try the component route. thanks

No there is nothing wrong with that. If you need switching, use component to the denon.

My blue ray works routed through the denon, but the cable box does not!

Its the cable box that is the issue. Do you have a model number? This, as mentioned, is a know issue with certain manufactures and models.

This thread was started in 06 about these issues

 

[Grant Nack]

It's a dcx3400.

 

[bandphan]

It's a dcx3400.

You need to pick up a new box(if you want to use hdmi otherwise component and optical are perfectly fine), That box has some known quirks, but not HDCP issues.

 

[markw]

Right now I have the cable box hooked directly to tv, and a optical back to receiver, am I losing anything that way?

Most likely, yes. I can't think of any TV that sends 5.1 out of their digital output except for that which eminates from it's internal ATSC tuner. Everything else is converted to two-chanel PCM.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

The guys are right, update your box as you want everything going to the Denon.

 

[bandphan]

Most likely, yes. I can't think of any TV that sends 5.1 out of their digital output except for that which eminates from it's internal ATSC tuner. Everything else is converted to two-chanel PCM.

my bad, I though he meant run the optical direct to the AVR