It seems like I have been having a lot of big electronics failures recently.
This time it was my TV.
Last week my TiVo started displaying a message saying that it couldn’t display over an HDMI cable on any of the highdef channels. After some troubleshooting it appears that my Samsung LNR238W LCD TV is not providing a proper HDCP signal anymore. Or at least not in a way that the TiVo can understand.
Audio over HDMI stopped working as well.
I tried hooking up the TiVo to another TV just to make sure it wasn’t a TiVo or HDMI cable problem. That worked fine, so it seems to point to a TV problem.
It seems like an unusual failure. Just HDCP and audio over HDMI, but everything else works fine? I can even still view the HDMI video just fine for channels that don’t require HDCP protection.
Anyone out there know enough about Samsung TVs to know if this is fixable?