Video shuts off after a while with Pioneer Elite receiver

[Setty007]

Hello there,
I have a typical home theater setup in my media room that I recently put together. I have a Pioneer Elite VSX-90 receiver, feeding Epson Home Cinema 2045 projector via a 35 ft Luxe Series CL3 Active High Speed HDMI® Cable.
I have multiple video sources (a BD player, cable box, laptop) feeding the video to the AV receiver.
When I play a blue ray DVD, everything works great for about 45 minutes. Then, the video just shuts off. Returns after few seconds. Then goes off in about 30 seconds to a minute. Returns again. From then on, the video randomly but very frequently disappears & reappears. During that time, audio stays intact, most of the times. But sometimes, even the audio turns off.
Has anyone experienced such a behavior? I'm wondering if there is a setting that I'm missing in either my AV receiver or the projector?

 

[mdram]

can you bypass the receiver
could be something getting hot in it causing hdmi issues

 

[Setty007]

Thanks mdram.
When the video freezes or goes blank, I temporarily connected a TV locally to the DVD player (of course with a different HDMI cable). And the video on that TV plays good.
To me, it looks like the output of the AV receiver freezes. Wondering what can cause that.

 

[mdram]

is it a diff hdmi port also?

 

[Kartajan]

this may/ may not assist troubleshooting: Most display devices have some form of "inactivity timer". Said timer usually keeps track of signal, and if it perceives a lack of signal will sleep the display. Based on your description, it sounds to me like an interruption in your signal starts that timer, but the return of signal (which should reset the timer) is not performing as expected.

Proposed tests:
1) remove the HDMI cable from the projector, and reconnect THAT SPECIFIC CABLE to an alternate display, attempt to recreate the problem.
2) restore your original configuration, attempt to recreate the problem using the laptop as your source

Test 1 is to determine if the (projector) is the problem area.
Test 2 is to determine if the (BD player) is the problem area.
If problem remains in original and both test conditions, I suspect the (AVR) to be the problem area.

Before purchasing new devices, you may want to attempt replacing/swapping HDMI cables where the problem exists (less likely, but still possible root of problem- and much cheaper to replace than the hardware involved)