Video signal issues with PS3, AV reciever, and new HDTV

[Lupinicus]

I'm having a frustrating problem with video output from my PS3 (Slim version) to my new Samsung UN46D6000 HDTV through a Marantz SR4002 AV receiver. First off, this home theater set-up worked fine with my previous TV that I replaced with the Samsung. I have a cable box, Xbox 360, and PS3 all running HDMI into the receiver and a single HDMI running from the receiver to the TV. Currently, the cable box and 360 are working fine. The PS3, however, refuses to output video to the Samsung through the receiver. All I get on the TV is "No Signal. Check connected device's power," etc etc. I have switched inputs on both the receiver and the TV with the same results, and I have also swapped in HDMI cables I know are functional for both the connection from the PS3 to the receiver and from the receiver to the TV. I have manually set the resolution on the PS3 to 720p and 1080i with no success either. I have also used the auto-detect hold-the-PS3-power-button-for-5-seconds thing with no change as well.

All that said, if I go directly from the PS3 to the TV with a HDMI cable, the video does work.

The kicker, in my opinion, is that I can remove the HDMI going into the TV (from the receiver) and plug it into my computer monitor and the PS3 video outputs just fine, no other changes needed.

Reading some other, similar threads around the web, it seems like this might be a HDCP issue. How would this be possible if the set-up works on another (much older) TV and computer monitor? Is there some HDCP setting I'm missing on the Samsung? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[frowertr]

I was having problems with HDMI as well a few weeks ago when switching inputs on my AVR. I have the same setup as you (multi input to AVR via HDMI and one output to Panasonic plasma via HDMI) sans for the PS3. Sometimes i would switch input on the AVR and the AVR itself would "freeze up" and the volume would be stuck at a high level and I couldn't do anything but turn the AVR off and then back on to reset itself. It only seemed to do this when the TV was on so I figured it had to be causing the issue.

I finally decided to see what the problem was and I started rooting around in my TV's settings menu. I ended up turning off "HDMI control". That fixed my problem. HDMI control allows you to turn the AVR on/off with the push of the power button on the TV remote. Unfortunately, it seems that HDMI has handshaking problems at times and it will fail. Perhaps something similiar is causing issues between the TV/AVR/PS3 in your case? See if you have something of that sort in your TV's menu and disable it.