no sound from digital cable box..help

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by Erman_94

so you guys are saying there is no way to get audio from my cable box through a dvi-hdmi connection?

DVI doesn't send audio. So, no, you will need a separate audio connection.

or is there a way to tell my receiver to take the video from the dvi-hdmi and audio from the component?

That's what cwh060 is saying. He has that receiver and sounds like he's familiar with that limitation. If you use HDMI, the receiver expects both audio and video. Apparently, it won't take video from HDMI and audio from another source.

sorry if this has been answered in your replies, im not very tech savvy and have read your posts over and over again. i kind of understand, but not really

So, you would appear to have two choices:

1. Use component video and either coax or optical audio from the cable box to the receiver per cwh060's description.

2. Run video (DVI-to-HDMI) direct to your TV instead of routing it through the receiver. You'd still run optical or coax audio from the cable box to the receiver.

Use option 1 unless the video quality is better using DVI out of your cable box.