I just picked up a 990 and I cannot get the DVD video out to work. No matter how I connect it, S-video, composite, etc. I went into menu and switched video for DVD and I get nothing.

I know the output from my DVD player is working, I connected it direct to tv and everything is fine. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Are you using DVI out to your TV? Remember that the 990 does not transcode anything to the DVI output. You will have to hook up a video output to your TV from the DVD out if you don't use DVI. The easiest way to do the video is to use the DVI connections. If your DVD player does not have DVI but does have HDMI there is an adapter to convert, but then you will have to connect an audio input to the 990.

Thanks and no I am not using DVI. I use s- video or component and nothing. The menu does show up on tv.

What DVD/Blu ray player are you using? I take it that it does not have HDMI or DVI output.

I have a sony rdr vx 535, I tried to HDMI output from DVD player and no video thru 990..the menu does come up on tv, also I am using s-video monitor out to tv. I don't know???

http://www.productwiki.com/sony-rdr-vx535/

The menu is not transmitted thru the DVI output on the 990. To see the menu on screen requires an alternate hookup.

First, when you say that you don't see a menu, are you talking about the DVD player's menu or the Model 990's menu?

If the problem is the 990's menu, here's a quick summary of how the 990's on-screen setup menu works. It is available from composite, s-video, and component video monitor outputs. If the output to the display is component, the way the menu appears will vary depending on how the active input is connected. For composite and s-video inputs, the menu will be overlayed onto the input signal before it is transcoded to 480i component video. For a component video source, the 990 replaces the incoming video with a blank screen and draws the menu onto that, with a 480i component video output. Some HDTV's component inputs only work for either 480i or HD resolutions (not both), and so there have been cases where someone was able to get the 990's component output to work fine with HD sources but not with the setup menu. The DVI switching is separate from the analog video, and the 990's setup menu is not available via the DVI output.

If the problem is the player's menu, we need to figure out how you want to connect the player. If you want to use the 990's DVI switching, then you will not be able to see the 990's setup menu without changing the input on your TV from the DVI or HDMI input to an analog video input.

I think he said he can see the 990 menu but can't get the display to show a picture from the DVD player using the DVD output on the 990. Using the 990 manual should help clear some things up but it sounds pretty stright forward.

If that's the case, we can work through it pretty easily if we know how he's connecting everything from player to 990 to display so we can help him figure out what settings he should use.

Thanks for the help guys, I reset the 990, disconnected everything and connected DVD component (R, G, B) in and then component
(R, G, B) out to tv. Everything works. Thanks again.

The 990 has a beautiful sound.