Anyone who owns a Yamaha YSP Sound Projector will tell you that trying to connect more than two components to it can be very complicated (or damn near impossible). The problem is that while the unit has two component vieo inputs, 2 HDMI inputs, composite inputs, optical and coaxial digital inputs they seemed to be linked the 'wrong' way.
Basically, the one component video input is linked to analogue audio input, and the composite video input is linked to a digital audio input.
Having struggled with this for a month and even getting the sales person to set it up, I've had no luck.
My last resort was to correspond (read: complain) to Mike Burczak (from Balanced Audio, Yamaha Distributors in South Africa) who has been very helpful.
He's just gotten back to me with feed back from Japan and Yamaha has released a new specification of the YSP-4000 in January 2008 and a firmware update is available for existing units. I will be sending the unit for the firmware upgrade next week and will report back on whether this fixes the problem.
P.S. The Yamaha sound projectors are awesome (and very wife/girlfriend friendly!)
UPDATE:
I've had the unit flashed to the latest version of the firmware and the assignable inputs issue is sorted. The firmware update also fixes the problem where 2 channel analogue sound is output when you use HDMI and certain DVD's/BluRay discs.
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Hi there,
No way I can get DD 5.1 from my Blu-Ray to the YSP-4000 (via HDMI). Where can I download the firmware update you mentioned? Am I able to flash it, or does Yamaha have to do it?
Thanks,
Aaron
aaronhere@gmail.com
Hello,
Could you please confirm that with a PS3 it is possible to get 5.1 LPCM?
How do we check the firmware version on the YSP-4000? How do we get the firmware with the fix? Do you know the specific version of that firmware so we can address Yamaha in a proper fashion?
Kind Regards,
Paulo Mendonça
If you have any insight for a U.S. owner to track down this firmware update I would be much obliged. Anything from putting me in touch with your contact to sending me the firmware file to bring to my local dealer. Thanks in advance!
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