tmof
Novice Member
Good evening fellow audiovisual obsessives !
I need some help & advice please. I have just had a major result due to some amazing customer service from Sony. About four & a half years ago I purchased a KD-65A1 OLED. At the beginning of the year I noticed some picture degradation towards the centre of the screen which would appear to due to the red pixels losing some of their colour (started noticing green flesh tones etc).
I raised this with Sony (I had a 5 year warranty) & they advised me that they could offer me an A8H as a replacement.
I queried this with Sony as I felt that it was not quite a like for like replacement & that an A9H would have been more appropriate as I was worried the A8H might be a little dimmer.
Sony advised that they did not have any A9H's that they could offer me & that the next option (an A80J) was not available either.
I was ready to admit defeat when they offered me an A90J (new) as a replacement, I almost fell of my chair, kudos to Sony for making me one happy customer.
I am now faced with a conundrum that I was not expecting. As the A90J has HDMI 2.1 ports & is capable of 120hz & VRR refresh rates I need to find myself a new AVR Receiver capable of handling this.
The issue I have is that I have a slim TV stand (only 14.5cm deep) I am restricted to the one that I can chose. I am looking at the Marantz NR1711 (I only have to drive a B&W MT50 surround set up) as I previously had a NR1607 AVR.
Now this only has the one HDMI 2.1 equivalent input & I have both a PS5 & an Xbox Series X. I am therefore unsure whether to purchase a switcher (messy) or to put the PS5 into the AVR & the Xbox Series X into the TV using one of the two HDMI 2.1 ports utilising the TV/AVR's eARC capability in the other port to feed the sound back into the amp & surround speakers. Was planning on using the QED performance HDMI cables as they are slightly cheaper that the Audioquest Forset equivalent,
I also have a Hue Sync Box a gradient Light strip & a couple of Hue Play bars & have decided to wire them into Zone 2 as the Hue Sync Box cannot cope with a full 4k signal at 120hz.
Is there a more elegant solution or any other equipment that can resolve the limited HDMI 2.1 port issue on the AVR received please.
I am lucky to have this issue but would like to resolve it with the help of some clever fellow audio visual enthusiasts !
I need some help & advice please. I have just had a major result due to some amazing customer service from Sony. About four & a half years ago I purchased a KD-65A1 OLED. At the beginning of the year I noticed some picture degradation towards the centre of the screen which would appear to due to the red pixels losing some of their colour (started noticing green flesh tones etc).
I raised this with Sony (I had a 5 year warranty) & they advised me that they could offer me an A8H as a replacement.
I queried this with Sony as I felt that it was not quite a like for like replacement & that an A9H would have been more appropriate as I was worried the A8H might be a little dimmer.
Sony advised that they did not have any A9H's that they could offer me & that the next option (an A80J) was not available either.
I was ready to admit defeat when they offered me an A90J (new) as a replacement, I almost fell of my chair, kudos to Sony for making me one happy customer.
I am now faced with a conundrum that I was not expecting. As the A90J has HDMI 2.1 ports & is capable of 120hz & VRR refresh rates I need to find myself a new AVR Receiver capable of handling this.
The issue I have is that I have a slim TV stand (only 14.5cm deep) I am restricted to the one that I can chose. I am looking at the Marantz NR1711 (I only have to drive a B&W MT50 surround set up) as I previously had a NR1607 AVR.
Now this only has the one HDMI 2.1 equivalent input & I have both a PS5 & an Xbox Series X. I am therefore unsure whether to purchase a switcher (messy) or to put the PS5 into the AVR & the Xbox Series X into the TV using one of the two HDMI 2.1 ports utilising the TV/AVR's eARC capability in the other port to feed the sound back into the amp & surround speakers. Was planning on using the QED performance HDMI cables as they are slightly cheaper that the Audioquest Forset equivalent,
I also have a Hue Sync Box a gradient Light strip & a couple of Hue Play bars & have decided to wire them into Zone 2 as the Hue Sync Box cannot cope with a full 4k signal at 120hz.
Is there a more elegant solution or any other equipment that can resolve the limited HDMI 2.1 port issue on the AVR received please.
I am lucky to have this issue but would like to resolve it with the help of some clever fellow audio visual enthusiasts !