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Question: Has anyone had the receiver fixed (HDMI board replacement) and has it been trouble-free since?
Document: After 6 months of ownership the HDMI board went bad. Turns out they ALL go bad eventually. What an impossible piece of garbage. What a hateful, miserable, buggy, worthless broken piece of absolute misery. I'm stuck now; it's under warranty and it can be fixed for free but I don't want to spend $100 to ship it just to get it repaired with parts Google says are just going to go bad again. I wish I could get my $500 back instead. Lesson learned.
After replacing an Onkyo TX SR-606 unit that failed after 2 years of use, the HDMI inputs and On Screen Display stopped working just after the warranty expired. It seems to be a known issue with the HDMI daughter card, just Google this model and read all the problems that show up with HDMI sync. Onkyo told me that since my item is out of warranty I am SOL. I purchased this receiver as a replacement and have had nothing but problems.
Nothing!Here we are, 6 months after purchase and the unit will not read any HDMI input. I can restart the unit and my PC, and my PC will not even see the receiver anymore. None of my HDMI will display to the TV through the receiver, only my component from my cable box. I appear to have the dreaded HDMI board failure.I called the company to see what I could do. It is under warranty so I know it will get repaired for free.
Never again will we buy Onkyo. The company used to make quality products, but this receiver is a huge disappointment. Within 2 months of getting it, the USB port went out. We sent it off to the nearest service center to have it fixed under warranty. They sent it back fixed. Within another few months, the HDMI output failed. We sent it back to the service center, and they replaced the video board.
This receiver worked great for just short of 2 years. Now, suddenly, there is no sound. A full reset worked once, now not even that works. Fortunately the unit is still within the 2 year warranty by 2 weeks. The HDMI board failure reports are true. I'll get this fixed, and never buy Onkyo again.Update: The Onkyo webpage says the nearest repair shop is 1000 miles away.
Then I would be ringing Amazon up for a replacement receiver and would have probably run into all sorts of trouble trying to Prove that it was not my Signature that was signed but actually the Signature of the Courier.
I almost was completely done after some of the trouble people say they have had dealing with this company, but I will give them one shot to get this right. I have heard that the part they replace the old HDMI board with has been revised and does not fail the way the old one does so we shall see. I will update my review the day that I send this unit off as I do not have a box to do so yet.
I had this receiver since August 2011, it worked great no issues, had a ton of features and good sound quality. Then it went out of warrenty and suddenly no sound, currently it's off to be repaired, so my 3 start rating depends on A if it can be fixed and B how long it will take.
Since I stream Pandora on my new 64" Samsung Plasma, I need a screen saving feature from the source so that I don't burn the screen with a fixed image. The Onkyo TX-NR609 7.2 NET source DOES NOT have a screen save function. All images available on the NET source; vTune, Pandora, Sirius, etc. cannot be used. C R A P! I did the firmware upgrade and hope for a new one that implements this function.ONKYO are your listening??
I was pleasantly surprised to find a receiver with these features at this price but, as it turns out, you get what you pay for. The receiver has trouble switching between HDMI inputs and frequently does not pass through the video signal at all. The audio is fine but there's no video (especially vexing when the receiver's up-converting features are touted in their marketing literature).
Answer: I purchased mine in April, 2011 and it functioned flawlessly until earlier this month.  After a few days of intermittent popping sounds from the speakers it stopped outputting sound.  I contacted Onkyo and they authorized an out of warranty repair which took two weeks from the time I shipped it to ABL Electronics until it arrived back the last week.  Works like new again.  I suppose time will tell but I'm happy with Onkyo's handling of the situtation.