have a question about HT setup

[QueBert]

I'm setting this up for a friend, today i got the TV and surround sound up and running. The TV is running to the Denon receiver via HDMI to the Monitor Out port, and then from HDMI 1 to the Direct TV box. Optical cable for sound - the receiver doesn't support audio over HDMI.

The Bluray is hooked up via Component + Optical for sound. I have the Components in COMP3. And I set the Comp 3 to DVD in the receivers setup. I get sound, but no video signal at all. The TV is on HDMI 1, which is what the DirecTV is using. I feel retarded but I can't figure out why I can't get video here. I hooked up the BluRay player with the HDMI and it worked but he only has 1 of those. I figured Component + Optical would be close enough to not worry about it. Now I don't have a 2nd HDMI so I can't know if hooking it up via HDMI 2 would correct the problem.

I've never set up anything outside of a few pretty basic systems. I did try Comp1,2 & 3 and no video on any of them. I turn the knob on the Denon and set it for DVD, I tried them all just to see, no luck with any.

What am I not doing here? This should be pretty cut and dry - plug cables in, configure Denon for DVD on that port and BOOM. Apparently I'm really dumb because I spent 2 hours fooling with it and got nowhere.

 

[sivart]

check the settings on the blu-ray player. Probably defaulted to HDMI when you had it hooked up that way. Find the factory reset for the blu-ray player and it should go down to its lowest resolution which you can then adjust.

If it was outputting over HDMI (1080p) and you switched to component (1080i) that would explain the problem.

 

[QueBert]

DAMNIT thank you! I don't know why I didn't think to go into the setup menu when I had it hooked up with the HDMI. I thought Component supported 1080p?

 

[vshah]

did you get it figured out? if you didn't, some receivers dont convert all inputs to the highest quality output. so if you have a component in, you'd need a component out. most newer ones convert everything to hdmi though...

 

[QueBert]

I haven't went back, I'm not going back until next weekend. I'm going to get it figured out, it probably is a setting in the menu on the player. It's a Sony product so I could see how it wouldn't auto detect the source lol.