HDMI won't work!

[FireplaceGuy]

I have a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD cable box, Yamaha RXV-4600 receiver, and a Toshiba 65NH84 Television. All three have HDMI but can't get it to work. When hooked up as follows: cable box>receiver>tv I get a message on the TV saying "Your HDTV does not support HDCP, Please use the YPrPb connectors". When hooked up as cable box>tv I get video but no audio(unless I hook audio up via composite next to the HDMI input on the televison). Please help, Yamaha, Time Warner Cable, and Toshiba have no answers.

P.S. Traded in cable box twice, not as easy to trade in TV or Receiver.

[mjones73]

Your receiver is screwing up the HDCP encryption in the connection it sounds like. You'll need to go HDMI to the TV and digital audio out (optical or coax) from the cable box to the AV receiver.

[Ratman]

Based on the manual, the receiver is HDCP compliant, so it should work.

Perhaps it's a timing issue with the HDCP 'handshake'. Try powering on the devices in different sequences.

I.E. receiver first, then TV, then cable box
or TV first, then cable box, then receiver
etc....

[daytonaguy]

This is a known problem with this DVR. At least with a direct DVR to TV HDMI connection. I had the same problem with my Samsung DLP set. Same error message. The solution: You MUST turn on the TV first before turning on the DVR. Otherwise, you get the dreaded error message. In my case, the DVR simply locks up and has to be rebooted. What's worse, you must turn off the DVR first and then the TV on shutdown or will happen again on startup. Idiotic. I finally gave up and just went back to component. Not that much different pix quality in my view.

[Ratman]

This is a known problem with this DVR. At least with a direct DVR to TV HMDMI connection.

Could be... but he stated earlier that when connected directly to the TV, it works.

In this instance, it seems that the A/V receiver may be suspect.

[kevinw]

Connect to TB abd skip the receiver. Save yourself the aggravation and retun the extra cable.