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Hi,I wonder if anyone can help me.
Firstly, I recently purchased and set up an Onkyo TS-DX777 (no hum problems as I have seen reported elsewhere) and am having trouble on two fronts.
The first problem is getting audio from my Pioneer DVL909 Combi player. I have DVD assigned to Optical 2 and connected with S-Video, no problem here - Dolby Digital comes through perfectly. However, I have about sixty Laser Discs and some have Dolby Digital (AC3) encoding. So, accordingly, I also connected a Co-ax from the AC3/RF out to both the CO-Ax 1 and 2 of the Onkyo and when I play an AC3 encoded Laser Disc I get nothing whatsoever - switching to Optical with the LD playing I get PCM ofcourse. It has occured to me that perhaps the Pioneer has no FM Demodulator and therefore I would need to purchase one. There is no mention of one in the Users Manual and if there isn't one internally I would be rather annoyed as this unit cost me 1800 Australian Dollars and I would expect to have it included unless of course it is not normal for the FM Demod. to be built into a LD player.
Is anyone familiar with this model and do the Demod. usually come as a separate black box inside the box with LD Players. If so, I obviously missed out,,, can anyone suggest where you buy these things and how much do they cost?
Second problem is that I recently connected to FOXTEL by Satellite which for those who don't live in Australia is the local Subscription service offered by FOX.
I was supplied accordingly with the latest (DSD700) Satellite Decoder which features an S-Video OUT - marked S-VHS strangely enough - and everything works fine through composite leads but no such luck with S-Video. I have tried this into the Amp through Video 3/S-Video 3, direct to the TV S-Video in and no luck. The picture is black and white and sometimes rolls. Does this point to a problem with the Set Top Box or is it common to experience problems such as these with S-Video from an Amp? The reason I say the latter is because the Amp states that if there are picture problems experienced from a Sat Decoder video-wise to connect to Video 3 which I've done.
It is not an option to connect another way as my aim is to have a unified Home Theatre/Audio System and the TV (Sony) only has one S-Video input which would obviously come from the Onkyo's S-Video OUT. I don't want to double up and connect Sat via Composite (although the picture is still good) because then the on-screen display wont work for Satellite incase I want to change audio settings (Pro-Logic. Stereo, etc.). The onscreen display does seem a little jittery at times though, besides this everything works perfectly feeding S-Video to the TV via the amp from DVD/LD.
Has anyone experienced similar problems? If this is just a 'bad luck' mis-match between my Amp and Sat Decoder is there anyway of fixing it such as adding a black box (filter, etc) or something to the S-Video between Sat and the Onkyo.
I am new to this so please excuse my ignorance - would appreciate any suggestions that anyone can offer.
Thanks in advance.
Follow Ups:
Thanks for your suggestions.As one last option before getting the Satellite installer back to look at the set top box that I was having problems with S-Video on I rang the technical assistance department of the service provider.
Easy fix - go into the menu, type in the installers code (which they gave me), change the setting for video output from 'composite' to 's-video' and BINGO - a brilliant picture through the amp/tv s-video connection.
Also, picked up an AC3 Demodulator for around USD140 including tax and overnight delivery - got the Yamaha APD-1.
Thanks again.
As Bob stated laserdisc players don't come with
RF demodulators built-in (at least none I'm aware of), they are usually built into the receiver,processor or can be had as a stand alone unit (I have the Yamaha APD-1 unit
$99 list). Yamaha,Pioneer and a few other companies use to have reasonably priced units $99-$160 (the Yamaha is discontinued,I don't know about the others. I picked mine up at Audiogon.com back in Jan. Used is your best bet, at Audiogon.com or Audioweb, just got to keep checking everyday, they don't last long as everyone is grabbing them up. I'm not sure about the other problem, but do try another S-video cable as bad s-video cables are usually the cause of black and white pictures in my experience. hope this helps.
Problem 1. LD players generally (never) ship an RF demodulator. That's a feature that's either included in your amp, or you buy an outboard demodulator. I think Yamaha offers a separate demodulator that you could use.Problem 2. Sounds like you've eliminated the amp as the source of the problem by connecting the settop box directly to the tv's s-video in with no luck. I'd look at the box as being the problem.
The little voices told me to stop listening.
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