ATT: To all ONKYO receiver owners

In response to Kuco's problem that I've also experienced myself (click on the link below to see his thread) it seems to be a problem with some receivers decoding hardware resulting in a loud pop and tripping the protection circuit. This could possibly damage your speakers. While searching through the AVS forum I found a link to a 605 firmware update for earlier models. I had to input my serial # and email address to receive an email to confirm wether I needed an update or not. Also I know a few of you guys just bought the 705 so I also did a search for a 705 page but with no success, but when you get a chance try to read some of the post they can help you if you take the time to read them (not all 1000+ of course). If you own the equipment than it's in your best interest to gather as much info as possible.

AVS Forum link
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1008620

Kuco's thread link
http://www.dvdtown.com/messageboard/topic/6891/6/0

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 30, 2008]

Receivers need firmware updates now??

This is getting out of hand.

Yea Falcon, this is getting out of hand, now it will be a must to have ethernet ports on the back of receivers to get the latest firmware updates.

John, Your hook up is exactly what they are mentioning in the thread (the 705 and the Panasonic BD30). I know you own a 705 and the Panny 30, do you bitstream or PCM? I'm not going to ask you to try to see if any of this is confirmed on your system because of risk to your speakers but keep a look out for any potential occurrences and let us know.

Thanks,
Tony

Tony,

As I mentioned in Kuco's post, I played "Live Free or Die Hard" from my Panasonic BD30 (bitstream undecoded out) in DTS Master Audio to my Onkyo 705, and it played perfectly.

John

[Post edited by John J. Puccio on Mar 30, 2008]

Tony thanks for the info and keep ups posted.

Falc. yes ive heard receivers need firm ware updates before lol... and yes it sounds weird. how does one do it? no ethernet jack or cd drive lol.

JJ. thanks for the feeback.

also guys i gotta take some time to do some digging. but as ive stated in my post. when that exact part is playing in the movie. my receiver shuts down. I wont try it again for now just incase.

EDIT- ohh and also... i use pcm on the ps3. and on the scene, theres hardly anysound... is pretty quiet.

[Post edited by kucoloco on Mar 31, 2008]

I heard this pop on Aliens vs Predator - Requiem on the swiming pool scene It scard the crap out of me and my friends I have the TX-sr705 and the Br-p1400 the movie allso did not work right it kept slowing down and cuting out I have the lates firmware to on the Br-p1400 is there anything I can do I like to use Dts-master so many movies have it. please help

Did you guys get the popping issues fixed? Let me know as the Onkyo 605 may be the receiver I end up getting due to budget constraints.

In the several months I've had the Onkyo 705, I've played dozens and dozens of movies in SD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray, plus many hours of cable television broadcasts, mostly in high def. In all that time and experience, I've only encountered the "popping" sound on one Blu-ray disc (and I can't remember which one at this point).

I did discover one problem early on, though. If you have a 1080 signal going into the 705 (and presumably the 605 and 805, too) through the component jacks, the receiver will downconvert the signal to 720p going out of the HDMI jack to your TV set. My high-definition cable box transmits a 1080i signal but only uses component outputs, not HDMI. Therefore, I have to send the cable signal directly to the TV set in order to get a full 1080i resolution. However, any HDMI connections (like the HD DVD and BD players) to the Onkyo will output 1080 just fine through the Onkyo's HDMI cable to the TV.

So, if you are using the Onkyo as a switchbox for all of your components, and your high-def TV reception looks a little softer than usual, check it out. Could be the receiver.

John

[Post edited by John J. Puccio on Apr 22, 2008]

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Receivers need firmware updates now??

I just received my new digital SLR camera (Canon EOS 40D) and the first thing I had to do was upgrade the firmware by downloading it from the Canon site and copying it to a compact flash card!

The good news is that no firmware updates have been released for my car so far this year. Last year they had two. Grrr.... they charge me almost $80 a pop for that service now that the vehicle is out of warranty.