Hopefully this thread won't run into the 10's of thousands of posts like the ones on the AVS forums generally do. Too much info!

I moved the sofa and loveseat into the living room the other night so except for more acoustic panels to come, new drapes, and pictures and stuff like that on the walls it's now pretty close to the final layout. This obviously means that I'll be running the room EQ again, that's why I mentioned this.

The meat of the subject...

I have my DVD changer's Component Out connected to the receiver's Component In, and the DVR's HDMI out connected to HDMI In 1 at the receiver. It's HDMI Out is connected to HDMI In 1 at the TV. The DVD's Coax Audio Out is connected to Coax In DVD at the receiver.

The first problem I had, then solved was that I wasn't getting video out from the DVD while trying to watch Pink Floyd's Pulse concert. Audio was there (sort of but I'll get to that later), and after a lot of guessing, which included routing and rerouting of the video feed through the receiver but still getting no where, I decided to check the DVD connections. The green plug was pulled out at the receiver end. The cable I'm using isn't the greatest from a quality standpoint, but it's the right length. I have an Acoustic Research cable but it's too long (10' I think). The benefit of this exercise was that I learned some things by trial-and-error about how the HDMI switching works from the setup menu screens. An issue exists though at the TV, where even though I have the PVR & DVD connected and output over one HDMI into the TV, the on-screen information shows DVR only. I guess the only thing to do in this case is to re-label that input to something generic like HDMI.

So while watching the concert it seemed as though the picture's color was washed out. I wasn't real happy with the PQ. Even the DVD wallpaper that's up when there's no disk inserted but the unit is powered on looked bad. Different shades of blue over the entire screen and text characters, even though they were formed correctly, weren't sharp, so I can't blame the DVD itself. I made adjustments at both the DVD player and the receiver, including changing the DVD output to 480i then back to 480p, and changing the receiver's output to 1080p (which was verified by checking the Info at the TV), but nothing changed. I'm going to reconnect the DVD directly to the TV and try again as well as trying a more up-to-date (from a PQ standpoint) DVD movie and check the results.

Audio output wasn't any better. Imaging was pretty much non-existent, and even when I manually cranked up the center channel's volume to about twice that of the front left & right, I could barely make out the vocals. I went into the YPAO's results screen and noticed some glaring inaccuracies. The speaker distance numbers were way off, showing front left, center and right as 1', one rear speaker at 1' and the other one at 8'. Volume at all but the subwoofer was set to 0, and all speaker sizes were set to large. Yes, I WILL run it again ASAP. Room acoustics have changed so all the more reason...

Life gets more and more complicated every day, but in this case it's a fun problem to have... right?