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Everybody be mindful re a possible/probable bug in the Onkyo TX-NR809 AVR re HQV video processing which may infect the other new Onk offerings as well as the parallel Integra line. I have the 809 which is basically = 50.2.

The user is prevented from setting the HDMI Output, global resolution to the native input resolution of the user's display.

There's a bit more to this but there is no way to tell the Onkyo's firmware to fix its HDMI Main output to, for example, 720p. Or if you have a legacy RPTV with HDFury, to 1080i. In the main Set-up menu under Monitor Out, just try to change "Resolution" to anything, and I mean anything. No change. Always hard-coded to 1080p. User input ignored. I have a cheap LCD with HDMI input as my "probe" since everything on my Mits 65819 looks like scrambled hash. That's how I know this. I ask the cheap LCD what it is seeing.

Ah, here's a good example of the Bug. Select Radio, listen to some FM but just try to get the Onk to display the Radio menu for you in a res anything other than 1080p. Impossible. Won't do it. Try as you like. Bug.

Jim Adams

PS.

I'm getting some agreement on this subject (after many post retries) from the AVS forum group, dedicated to the Onkyo TX-NR809.

Jim Adams

The 809 has limitations and some would call them bugs. The video modes are real bad in that they shift the color space and grey scale so as to make use of the HQV video scaler/processor less than advertised. Many savvy folks with good displays use Direct mode to bypass the processing artifacts in Custom. And Custom is the only Picture mode that allows you to set the output resolution native to your display if it's "weird" like mine using a 2002 CRT RPTV with a single res of 1080i. Long story but I made it workwith an HDFury 3. That's it. I'm trying to close-out this thread with the webmaster.

Jim