oscahie
Novice Member
I've recently purchased a Samsung HDTV UE46D7000 and a Samsung home theater HTD6500, thinking they would inter-operate better together being of the same brand. However I'm running into several issues or annoyances, mainly related to the audio:
1) I can't manage to have the TV and the sound system to turn off and on simultaneously. Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC) is enabled on both devices and the "Auto turn off" is set to "Yes" in the TV configuration. When I turn off the TV, the sound system also turns itself off, but when I power on the TV again, the receiver does not follow it, and therefore there is no audio unless I manually turn it on every time with its own remote. I assume this is not intentional but a software issue? Otherwise it'd be ridiculous that I need to keep the receiver on 24x7 just to avoid this annoying thing.
2) When I use the TV's remote to change the volume I see an on-screen HUD, but it's quite useless as it does not indicate the current volume level, only displays an animated volume bar which does not provide any feedback as to what level is the volume being set to. When I use the BD's remove there is no HUD at all. In both cases I can see the volume indicator in the receiver's display though, but that is just too small and not necessarily always on sight. This is quite inconvenient. The Anynet+ documentation I've found around shows that it should be possible to display at least the current volume level in a numeric format on screen (and it actually does it when I mute and un-mute with the TV's remote). Anyway to get this working as it should?
3) I also have many audio synchronization issues, i.e. lip sync is not good in some channels/HDMI inputs while it is on others. But it gets much worse when I use a media center (Boxee Box) connected to the TV via HDMI. Sometimes the audio is ahead and sometimes it lags with respect to the video. I've tried playing with the audio delay setting in both the TV settings and the receiver settings, but it seems an impossible task to get it right for all the scenarios. Note that I'm currently using the ARC feature on the HDMI port 2 to send the audio to the receiver. Any suggestions to mitigate the issue? Perhaps using an optical cable for the audio instead?
1) I can't manage to have the TV and the sound system to turn off and on simultaneously. Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC) is enabled on both devices and the "Auto turn off" is set to "Yes" in the TV configuration. When I turn off the TV, the sound system also turns itself off, but when I power on the TV again, the receiver does not follow it, and therefore there is no audio unless I manually turn it on every time with its own remote. I assume this is not intentional but a software issue? Otherwise it'd be ridiculous that I need to keep the receiver on 24x7 just to avoid this annoying thing.
2) When I use the TV's remote to change the volume I see an on-screen HUD, but it's quite useless as it does not indicate the current volume level, only displays an animated volume bar which does not provide any feedback as to what level is the volume being set to. When I use the BD's remove there is no HUD at all. In both cases I can see the volume indicator in the receiver's display though, but that is just too small and not necessarily always on sight. This is quite inconvenient. The Anynet+ documentation I've found around shows that it should be possible to display at least the current volume level in a numeric format on screen (and it actually does it when I mute and un-mute with the TV's remote). Anyway to get this working as it should?
3) I also have many audio synchronization issues, i.e. lip sync is not good in some channels/HDMI inputs while it is on others. But it gets much worse when I use a media center (Boxee Box) connected to the TV via HDMI. Sometimes the audio is ahead and sometimes it lags with respect to the video. I've tried playing with the audio delay setting in both the TV settings and the receiver settings, but it seems an impossible task to get it right for all the scenarios. Note that I'm currently using the ARC feature on the HDMI port 2 to send the audio to the receiver. Any suggestions to mitigate the issue? Perhaps using an optical cable for the audio instead?