I've read every thread I can find about this far from uncommon problem but wondered if anyone can throw some light on my particular issue.
A couple of months ago I had a 5 year old faulty V1 Sky Q box replaced with a V3 version, ever since I've been having an absolute nightmare with HDMI handshakes. The engineer couldn't get it to work at all so just left me with it which wasn't a great start.
My setup comprises of a Panasonic 50AX802B screen, Pioneer LX701 AVR, Pioneer LX58 BluRay player and a PS4 Pro, everything is connected to the amp with only the screen connected directly to the amp.
Since the new Q box I've been having to wait anywhere between 30 seconds and 10 minutes (seriously!) for it to connect. No pattern of turning things off/on in a certain order or leaving the Sky box on constantly seems to have improved the situation by much if at all. Switching off HDMI control on the Sky box seemed to speed the connection up but then the box kept defaulting to 1080i resolution for some reason (which in itself seems to improve the situation).
The one thing which has helped massively is to leave my Panasonic TVs HDCP setting on 2.2 instead of auto. The only downside with this is if I want to use the amps built in Deezer app or Airplay (something I do regularly) I have to manually change the TV setting to 1.4, which is a pain as I regularly switch between listening to music and viewing the Sky box. It seems like the problem is that my TV goes around in circles and is incredibly slow at working out which setting to use. This was never a particular problem with the V1 box however.
I'm wondering if this scenario is enough to point to a potential cure before I start unnecessarily replacing HDMI leads etc etc. I did read that adding a powered HDMI splitter between the box and the amp can fix it?
Any help greatly appreciated.
A couple of months ago I had a 5 year old faulty V1 Sky Q box replaced with a V3 version, ever since I've been having an absolute nightmare with HDMI handshakes. The engineer couldn't get it to work at all so just left me with it which wasn't a great start.
My setup comprises of a Panasonic 50AX802B screen, Pioneer LX701 AVR, Pioneer LX58 BluRay player and a PS4 Pro, everything is connected to the amp with only the screen connected directly to the amp.
Since the new Q box I've been having to wait anywhere between 30 seconds and 10 minutes (seriously!) for it to connect. No pattern of turning things off/on in a certain order or leaving the Sky box on constantly seems to have improved the situation by much if at all. Switching off HDMI control on the Sky box seemed to speed the connection up but then the box kept defaulting to 1080i resolution for some reason (which in itself seems to improve the situation).
The one thing which has helped massively is to leave my Panasonic TVs HDCP setting on 2.2 instead of auto. The only downside with this is if I want to use the amps built in Deezer app or Airplay (something I do regularly) I have to manually change the TV setting to 1.4, which is a pain as I regularly switch between listening to music and viewing the Sky box. It seems like the problem is that my TV goes around in circles and is incredibly slow at working out which setting to use. This was never a particular problem with the V1 box however.
I'm wondering if this scenario is enough to point to a potential cure before I start unnecessarily replacing HDMI leads etc etc. I did read that adding a powered HDMI splitter between the box and the amp can fix it?
Any help greatly appreciated.