Hello everyone,
I live in the US and decided to take a chance and buy the Vantage 7100Hd. We have nothing close to what this receiver had to offer here in the States. The reviews, specifications, and options this receiver has to offer are all top notch. When I received it yesterday I felt like a kid with a new toy. I couldn't wait to hook it up. I made the two needed connections, the satellite cable and the HDMI cable, powered it up, waited for the boot to finish and then------nothing, but a digital mess on the screen. It's funny how quick you can go from happy to sad. The best I can tell is that the unit is not NTSC compatible even though the specs I read show that it is. Not being able to read the screen it took me about 5 hours to finally get far enough to get a black and white picture through the yellow video out connection.
I have Emailed Vantage-Digital but have not received any response. So I am wondering a couple of things. Would downloading the latest main firmware from here help and if I do will this kill the chances of being able to return it ,which I don't want to do? Is there a chance that this could be fixed with a future upgrade? Is the 7100HD that good that it would be worth the price of adding a PAL converter to such as the one here. Link removed
Specs showing it as Auto,Pal, NTSC Link removed
I may have made a big mistake buying this but i still think the quality of the German made units are far superior to what we have here. Any input or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
I live in the US and decided to take a chance and buy the Vantage 7100Hd. We have nothing close to what this receiver had to offer here in the States. The reviews, specifications, and options this receiver has to offer are all top notch. When I received it yesterday I felt like a kid with a new toy. I couldn't wait to hook it up. I made the two needed connections, the satellite cable and the HDMI cable, powered it up, waited for the boot to finish and then------nothing, but a digital mess on the screen. It's funny how quick you can go from happy to sad. The best I can tell is that the unit is not NTSC compatible even though the specs I read show that it is. Not being able to read the screen it took me about 5 hours to finally get far enough to get a black and white picture through the yellow video out connection.
I have Emailed Vantage-Digital but have not received any response. So I am wondering a couple of things. Would downloading the latest main firmware from here help and if I do will this kill the chances of being able to return it ,which I don't want to do? Is there a chance that this could be fixed with a future upgrade? Is the 7100HD that good that it would be worth the price of adding a PAL converter to such as the one here. Link removed
Specs showing it as Auto,Pal, NTSC Link removed
I may have made a big mistake buying this but i still think the quality of the German made units are far superior to what we have here. Any input or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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