FMB Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Last night, we recorded a couple of shows on the Pioneer HDD recorder to watch later. When I switched to it, my Samsung M81 just showed 'No Signal' and 'Mode Not Supported' on the HDMI1 input. On Sunday, I bought a Samsung BD-P1500 BD player and hooked it up to the Yamaha 1800B via HDMI and watched Iron Man. All worked perfectly. Last night I couldn't get anything to display on the TV despite an hour fiddling with setting on the TV and the AVR. Occasionally the menus for the AVR would appear, but then vanish again. I gave up and went to bed. This morning, I swapped the HDMI cable with the one that came with the Samsung BD-P1500 and its all OK. I've never had a cable fail on me like that, be it HT or computer related. Does anyone know if the HDMI cable with the BD-P1500 is 1.3 compliant?
Juicester Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 shouldn't matter if it's compliant or not from my understanding. Even a non 1.3 hdmi cable should still pass some sort of video signal. Buy a few from foxtail if you need some new ones.
Juicester Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) *forum error. double post. Edited October 14, 2008 by jcjuice
FMB Posted October 14, 2008 Author Posted October 14, 2008 shouldn't matter if it's compliant or not from my understanding. Even a non 1.3 hdmi cable should still pass some sort of video signal. Buy a few from foxtail if you need some new ones. The cable I replaced was marked as being 1.3 compliant. Considering its the cable between the AVR and the TV, I thought it was fairly important that it be a good quality one.
Shonky* Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 The cable I replaced was marked as being 1.3 compliant. Considering its the cable between the AVR and the TV, I thought it was fairly important that it be a good quality one. It's only important that it's a good one in the sense that *everything* you watch will be via that cable. The other cables are just as important but only for that specific source (i.e. BD player, PVR etc. As long as the cable works, a higher quality HDMI cable won't improve the picture. It does sound like your cable is faulty or very bad quality - did it ever work? You've done the right thing by swapping cables around to test. There are cables that aren't marked 1.3 compliant but will be perfectly capable of running 1.3 signals. They just haven't been tested to that standard.
Guest EZYHD Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 I've never had a cable fail on me like that, be it HT or computer related. Does anyone know if the HDMI cable with the BD-P1500 is 1.3 compliant? One would think a HDMi cable from such a large maker would work. Mind you in the early days I had problems with two batches of moulded cables, reason I don't have that kind anymore.
Juicester Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 er lol? the amount of double/triple posts you see around here makes me think it's not just me somehow.
FMB Posted October 14, 2008 Author Posted October 14, 2008 It's only important that it's a good one in the sense that *everything* you watch will be via that cable. The other cables are just as important but only for that specific source (i.e. BD player, PVR etc.As long as the cable works, a higher quality HDMI cable won't improve the picture. It does sound like your cable is faulty or very bad quality - did it ever work? You've done the right thing by swapping cables around to test. There are cables that aren't marked 1.3 compliant but will be perfectly capable of running 1.3 signals. They just haven't been tested to that standard. That cable had been working perfectly for several months. I can't remember what brand it was. The thing that made me think it was a cable and not faulty hardware or settings, was the fact that my wife said she had seen the cat jump up behind the TV the day before. All of the connections seemed OK. I had the Samsung cable handy so stuck it in and up she came. Based on the opinions here, I might just leave it there and see how it goes.
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