Home Theater Help Needed

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I have a new Panasonic Blu-Ray player and I'm trying to hook it up to my Samsung home theater system. My problem is that with the Blu-Ray hooked up to the Samsung HDMI in, and the the Samsung connected to TV the picture is terrible. I've switched cables, doesn't help. If you connect the blu-ray straight to the TV it's great. If you hook the xbox 360 up to the samsung that picture seems ok.

I am at a lost on why the picture quality is so bad when the blu-ray goes through the surround sound reciever.
 

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I have a new Panasonic Blu-Ray player and I'm trying to hook it up to my Samsung home theater system. My problem is that with the Blu-Ray hooked up to the Samsung HDMI in, and the the Samsung connected to TV the picture is terrible. I've switched cables, doesn't help. If you connect the blu-ray straight to the TV it's great. If you hook the xbox 360 up to the samsung that picture seems ok.

I am at a lost on why the picture quality is so bad when the blu-ray goes through the surround sound reciever.

What 65fastback said.
 

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model of receiver?, possibly because the receiver is crappy



my suggestion is to run HDMI to tv and an optical for audio to the receiver
 

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Some AVRs don't pass the straight HDMI signal. They dick with it and try to re-sample, up-sample, down-sample, etc. I suspect that's what's happening. Search on avsforum.com with your AVR's model number and see what you come up with.
 

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Is the Samsung a HTIB??

Its possible the Samsung 'receiver' is not REALLY meant to 'switch' video. Thus the crappy picture.

Or its a setting. :beer: :lol:
 

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model of receiver?, possibly because the receiver is crappy



my suggestion is to run HDMI to tv and an optical for audio to the receiver

Receiver is a Samsung HT-WX70, bought it at Sam's awhile back. Blu-Ray is Panasonic DMP-BD60

I've thought about just snagging an optical cable from monoprice and hooking up that way, I guess I'm just hung on why the picture is poor going through the receiver. It's like splotchy i guess you could say.
 

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Is the Samsung a HTIB??

Its possible the Samsung 'receiver' is not REALLY meant to 'switch' video. Thus the crappy picture.

Or its a setting. :beer: :lol:

Yea it's a HTIB. It's just weird the xbox passes through fine but the blu-ray player is messed up.
 

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read the manual, your receiver only outputs 1080i whether it's upconverted or passthrough.

you can either do what I suggested earlier or switch the blu-ray to output 1080i
 

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Those HTIB's are really what they are... budget systems with small print. It may not be HDCP-compliant, therefore the Blu-Ray player sees this and it is downsampling (making it look like a DVD movie rather than a Blu-Ray movie) when going through the receiver. There's nothing wrong with the player.
 

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Those HTIB's are really what they are... budget systems with small print. It may not be HDCP-compliant, therefore the Blu-Ray player sees this and it is downsampling (making it look like a DVD movie rather than a Blu-Ray movie) when going through the receiver. There's nothing wrong with the player.

I've thought about that too since the player is just fine when connected directly to the TV.
 

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read the manual, your receiver only outputs 1080i whether it's upconverted or passthrough.

you can either do what I suggested earlier or switch the blu-ray to output 1080i

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