On Screen Display.

My dvd & dish receiver run into the 990 then out to my Samsung plasma via svideo (will be via dvi/hdmi Monday). I get OSD on all sources without changing any input on the tv remote.

At one point I also had a coax running (from the out to tv jack) on the dish receiver to one of the antenna inputs on the plasma. In this configuration I did not get the OSD for the dish source,
only the dvd source. I have no idea why.

My thought is the problem lies within a connection or source input at the Samsung. I may have missed it but has he tried running all sources thru the 990 then out? Are there any disadvantages of doing this?

You will get the 990's on screen display (both the little "pop-up" notes on the bottom of the screen for input changes and such and the main setup menu) for s-video and composite video inputs. Component video inputs will only get the setup menu OSD. DVI/HDMI sources will not get any OSD info from the 990, so leave that s-video cable in place between the 990 and your plasma.

When you had coax running from the disc receiver to the plasma, you were bypassing the 990 - as a result, the 990 had no way to add video data to the signal.

Miscanthus is in the position that you will be on Monday - both of his sources are DVI/HDMI, so there is no OSD data added by the 990. Even if he did route through the 990, he'd still need something separate (such as s-video) for the 990's setup menu.

Yes i'll keep the s-vid in place.
When I had the coax connected that was just an additional connection, s-vid from the dish was still ran into the 990. Did the coax override the s-vid?

I'm still confused why he can't run it all thru the 990 then s-vid to plasma for the OSD.

I hope I don't have the same problem.
Thanks

If you were using the s-video input, you would have had the OSD, but if you had switched to the coax then you would have lost the OSD. Since you OSD went away, I assumed that the plasma got switched to the coax input.

We're all confused why miscanthus can't get OSD via s-video, but it's a very isolated and currently unexplained situation and since you had the OSD working already I can't imagine you running into the same thing.

Hi there,

Been a while since I've been around. But I'll chime in here -- I had a very similar problem. The video coming from my 990 was flaky. I never switched through it, so the only reason I had it hooked up to the TV was for the OSD. I did component and S-video. I also used those same connections to another TV. It would come and go and "roll" on the screen like old-timey bad reception. Sometimes it would not work at all. I tried different cables. Always the same result.

Finally, Steve sent me another 990, and I never had another problem with the OSD at all. So I can tell you first hand that this kind of thing is possible. Hey, all types of problems and failures are *possible* with a machine like this.

Of course, now I have the intermittent background noise in "upsample" mode, but that's another story.

Gonk,
It has been a while, but I have been very busy and traveling. I am about to start this process again, tonight. I just hooked up a composite video cable to the 990 in the video monitor out and connected to the Samsung video input. I used the source button on the tv remote and got the tv to the video channel. I pressed the menu buton on the 990 and the menu button on the 990 remote. On the Samsung I get a "searching for signal" message and no menu. Samsung has serviced the tv and found no prextoblems.
Next:
Hooked up a component video the same way. No menu. Samsung is "searching for signal" BTW, this is how I hooked it up out of the box and it worked.
Next:
S vidieo, same song same dance.

Hmmmmm! Noticed below that Otto was having same problems and Outlaw sent him a new box.

If those tests didn't work, I'd recommend a call to Outlaw because the 990 seems to be the most likely culprit. They might suggest a system reset (holding down "SETUP" and "MENU" at the same time on the front panel) or some other trick to see if there's something odd going on with the software, but short of something like that it sounds like you'll need to get it swapped out.

Yea, thank for all your help. I have done the system reset thing.

Miscanthus,

My 2 cents, if you want the cleanest picture possible, run video from Cable box to TV and don't go to anything in-between if possible. Higher the connection points the higher the possibility of interference. If your doing it to get the OSD, run a line from the 990 to the TV using s-Video or something like that, and do a Picutre in Picture to see it.

I have not read all the thread and so you might have a good reason. I'm a nut and I want the best picture possible.

Good Luck...!