Fathernature59
Novice Member
I recently purchased a 2019 Model Denon AVR-S950H which is a great receiver. Loud and proud! The receiver is hooked to a TCL 75R615. It’s replacing my trusty Denon AVR-E300 which I’ve had for a long time and has worked flawlessly. I needed a receiver with 4K inputs, so I purchased the new one since the old receiver was limited to 1080p inputs.
The issue I was having with the S950 was the video was very unstable and would randomly cut in and out to a black screen, stutter, lock up, or sometimes would simply go to a light grey snowy screen and lock into that screen until I restarted the receiver. I tried just about everything I could to stop this issue and nothing worked... I used the receiver’s built in HDMI analyzer which gave everything including the cables a “pass”, lowered HDMI output of the TV to 1.4, limited the input resolution max to 1080P, put quality cables on, turned on or off the ECO mode, etc. I was about to box up the receiver and get a refund.
Finally, I bypassed the “Video Mode” setting in the S950 menu, and voila! Problem solved. (Setup Menu-Video-Output Settings-Video Mode-Bypass) The video works flawlessly now, and I’m a happy camper. I hope some of the Denon techs read this thread so they can add a fix to the next firmware update.
The setup menu no longer shows on the TV Screen and the i/p Scaler is disabled with “Video Mode” bypassed, but that’s ok. This fix may also work with other recent Denon models having the same issue.
The issue I was having with the S950 was the video was very unstable and would randomly cut in and out to a black screen, stutter, lock up, or sometimes would simply go to a light grey snowy screen and lock into that screen until I restarted the receiver. I tried just about everything I could to stop this issue and nothing worked... I used the receiver’s built in HDMI analyzer which gave everything including the cables a “pass”, lowered HDMI output of the TV to 1.4, limited the input resolution max to 1080P, put quality cables on, turned on or off the ECO mode, etc. I was about to box up the receiver and get a refund.
Finally, I bypassed the “Video Mode” setting in the S950 menu, and voila! Problem solved. (Setup Menu-Video-Output Settings-Video Mode-Bypass) The video works flawlessly now, and I’m a happy camper. I hope some of the Denon techs read this thread so they can add a fix to the next firmware update.
The setup menu no longer shows on the TV Screen and the i/p Scaler is disabled with “Video Mode” bypassed, but that’s ok. This fix may also work with other recent Denon models having the same issue.