Having just moved and setting up my office/games room again I finally got around to connecting my games consoles up.
In this room I route everything through a Sony STR-DH820 AV Receiver as it handles multiple HDMI inputs and access the audio from this and pass the video on to my Dell U2711 monitor (Which I use for everything in this room and it works perfectly as an HDMI monitor).
I have however encountered an issue with the PS3. It's setup just as before, connected via HDMI to the Sony AV Receiver and then that is connected to the Dell monitor via HDMI also. But now the display flickers and both visual and audio cut out for a couple of seconds, then return, and it continues to do this every few minutes.
The only difference compared to the previously working setup is the use of a much longer HDMI cable from the AV Receiver to the display. But the audio also cuts out on the AV Receiver when this happens and you can see the Receiver's display lose the HDMI sync and the input reset then resync and the connection come back up. I thought if it were just the longer cable from the Receiver to the display that only that would cut out and the audio coming from the Receiver would continue. Instead it is action as if all output directly from the PS3 is being disrupted. Can this happen regardless of where along the HDMI chain the issue is?
I know that the PS3 can be a bit delicate/fussy regarding HDMI output, so could this be entirely down to the longer HDMI cable being used from the receiver to the display? It's about 5M long, and the one from the PS3 to the Receiver is about 1M.
As a temp fix, as suggested on multiple sites, I've dropped the PS3 settings down to 720P and it doesn't do it at all at that setting, which does suggest it is a data throughput issue, which from reading leads to a handshake issue.
The strange thing is that I also have an Xbox 30 connected in the same way to the AV Receiver and that hasn't had any issue in 1080P so far. Just the PS3.
Anyone else had this problem? And is there a solution without needing to relocate everything closer to the display?
The only other thing that happened was the first time I powered on the PS3 after moving and connecting it all up it forced a firmware update. I therefore don't know if this update in any way affected this issue or if I was occurring beforehand.
In this room I route everything through a Sony STR-DH820 AV Receiver as it handles multiple HDMI inputs and access the audio from this and pass the video on to my Dell U2711 monitor (Which I use for everything in this room and it works perfectly as an HDMI monitor).
I have however encountered an issue with the PS3. It's setup just as before, connected via HDMI to the Sony AV Receiver and then that is connected to the Dell monitor via HDMI also. But now the display flickers and both visual and audio cut out for a couple of seconds, then return, and it continues to do this every few minutes.
The only difference compared to the previously working setup is the use of a much longer HDMI cable from the AV Receiver to the display. But the audio also cuts out on the AV Receiver when this happens and you can see the Receiver's display lose the HDMI sync and the input reset then resync and the connection come back up. I thought if it were just the longer cable from the Receiver to the display that only that would cut out and the audio coming from the Receiver would continue. Instead it is action as if all output directly from the PS3 is being disrupted. Can this happen regardless of where along the HDMI chain the issue is?
I know that the PS3 can be a bit delicate/fussy regarding HDMI output, so could this be entirely down to the longer HDMI cable being used from the receiver to the display? It's about 5M long, and the one from the PS3 to the Receiver is about 1M.
As a temp fix, as suggested on multiple sites, I've dropped the PS3 settings down to 720P and it doesn't do it at all at that setting, which does suggest it is a data throughput issue, which from reading leads to a handshake issue.
The strange thing is that I also have an Xbox 30 connected in the same way to the AV Receiver and that hasn't had any issue in 1080P so far. Just the PS3.
Anyone else had this problem? And is there a solution without needing to relocate everything closer to the display?
The only other thing that happened was the first time I powered on the PS3 after moving and connecting it all up it forced a firmware update. I therefore don't know if this update in any way affected this issue or if I was occurring beforehand.
- If you go somewhere like superfi, or preferrably an actual decent av store, they'll let you try the cable out before buying and return it if doesn't work as well as you hoped when you get home they'll refund/exchange no questions for you.