Yamaha HTR-5790 setup questions

[AZQ]

In using a Yamaha HTR-5790 (got it for $200 less than an RXV-1400 at jr.com) receiver for video switching, I have encountered a few problems and was hoping to determine if these are due to my configuration or limitations of the receiver.

1. If I run the DVD to the receiver via component but the receiver to the tv via s-video I get no picture. It works fine with s-video and s-video. I assume you cannot "down convert". I have video conversion turned on.

2. I cannot watch (and listen thru the tv speakers) to digital cable (hooked up to the reciever via s-video) without turning on the reciever.

Thanks for any input.

I couldn't be happier this reciever. I have the HTR-5790 hooked up to Paradigm Titan fronts and a Paradigm PS-1000 sub (no center, surrounds or others yet) and it sounds phenomenal. Night and day to my old HK AVR45 (circa 1998). My wife screamed for me to come "hear this" the first time she heard a gun shot on it.

 

[dloweman]

Is running the component cables straight to the tv an option? If you have enough connections on your tv, then just run the dvd player and cable box directly to the tv. You don't need to run the video through the receiver.

 

[warpdrive]

Yup, no down conversion....just hook up the dvd's video to the tv directly. Or use the svideo output on your DVD player.

If you hook up your digital cable to the receiver, then you have to turn on your receiver for sure.

The other alternative is to hook up your cable box to your TV, and use Y adapters to feed the sound to the receiver simutaneously. Then you have the option of hearing the sound on your TV or receiver.

 

[dloweman]

Forgot to add this. What i do is run the rca from the cable box to the tv and run a coaxial digital cable from the cable box to the receiver.

 

[MDS]

Forgot to add this. What i do is run the rca from the cable box to the tv and run a coaxial digital cable from the cable box to the receiver.

With that hookup, you will need to use the tv speakers to hear channels that only have analog audio and the receiver to hear channels that have only digital audio.

If you want to retain the option of using the tv speakers, then you must run an analog cable from the tv audio out to the receiver. Most receivers will automatically switch between analog and digital (with digital having priority), so no problem having both digital and analog connections to the receiver. That is exactly how I do it (minus going thru the tv) because TW digital cable has some stations that only broadcast analog audio.

 

[dloweman]

Sorry about that, I have all digital channels and assumed that he did too.