HDMI audio question

[messym]

I have Dish Network w/ HD DVR. I have an HDMI cable hooked up from the box to my plasma and also have audio cables running from the box to a receiver. I want to be able to play my audio for regular tv shows like CNN, the news, etc thru my tv speakers and my movies/sports via the receiver. I noticed that sometimes I can get audio thru my tv speakers and at other times no sound comes thru the tv at all. Is something wrong w/ my set up? There is no issue w/ the receiver as I can get sound thru it anytime w/ the audio cables.

[BACsader]

How do you have your audio hooked up to your receiver?

[aramis109]

If your receiver is capable, you'd be best off just going HDMI from the cable box to the receiver. As far as playing some through the tv speakers (gotta ask why- I play everything through my surround!) you could possibly go optical or digital coax directly to it and switch how the cable box outputs.

If that's not how your setup is, some combination of that would need to be done. I'm not sure it's going to work as you want it to without switching cables each time or doing a lot of menu changing.

[messym]

My set up has an HDMI cable running from the HD DVR recvr directly to the TV. Unfortunately, my receiver is not HDMI compatible, so I have to run the red/white audio cables from the HD DVR recvr to the recvr in addition to the HDMI cable directly to the tv. I just don't get the reason why sometimes I have audio on the tv via HDMI and other times I don't. I never have an issue w/ the sound coming out of the recvr. I thought it would be nice to switch from reg tv to surround sound delivered by the recvr and vise versa.

At some point, I will have upgrade my audio set up.

[kingofgrills]

That's really odd, because the way you have it hooked up it should work all the time. Especially since you're using analog interconnects between your cable receiver and your audio receiver.

Check in your cable box menu settings to see if there is an option to bitstream Dolby Digital audio via HDMI. If there is, you should make sure it is NOT checked since not all broadcasts support Dolby Digital. You want your HDMI cable to send 2.0 stereo PCM to your TV.

[gtmorgan23]

your probably getting a problem with the dvr box sometimes sending audio through your hdmi and other times sending it out of the red/white stereo cables. you have to go into the settings on the dvr box and manually change where you want the audio to be sent out of. It will be either hdmi or regular stereo to your receiver. it has to be either one or the other, or you can manually go through your settings every time but that would be a pain in the rear.

[StretchMaK]

Originally Posted by messym

I have Dish Network w/ HD DVR. I have an HDMI cable hooked up from the box to my plasma and also have audio cables running from the box to a receiver. I want to be able to play my audio for regular tv shows like CNN, the news, etc thru my tv speakers and my movies/sports via the receiver. I noticed that sometimes I can get audio thru my tv speakers and at other times no sound comes thru the tv at all. Is something wrong w/ my set up? There is no issue w/ the receiver as I can get sound thru it anytime w/ the audio cables.

Dose your TV have audio out on it? You could get your sound from the DVR with the HDMI and use the RCA cables from your TV to the reciever. Your TV should have a place in the menus to select TV speakers or audio out.