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Phillips magnavox home theater in a box. Everything was working fine. Have av cable from surround sound unit to tv. That used to carry video and audio. However now I don't have surround sound with the tv. I used a sony play staion, and video to tv and audio to aux on surround sound and it worked, and same with other dvd player. but even if I hook up video and both audio lines from tv to surround sound still nothing. Any suggestions.
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Bruce
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Dear Bruce,
Okay, I'm confused. It's not clear to me how you have the units connected.
Generally, the TV should take only two inputs (1) the coaxial antenna feed from your signal source (antenna, cable, satellite) and (2) the video feed (composite, S-video, or component video) from your receiver. If you have routed the audio output from the TV back to the receiver, then you've defeated the surround. TVs only reproduce sound in stereo.
Ideally, all your audio and video feeds (play station, DVD player, VCR, etc.) are connected to video and audio inputs on the receiver. The video output from the receiver is connected to the TV, and the audio output is via the receiver's speakers. The sole exception to this is the TV's sound from the signal feed, which should come from the TV's speakers.
Good luck. And thanks for choosing allexperts.com!
Kindest regards,
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
Here is the set up. I have the cable going into digital box, out to tv. I have a not sure if a component video or composite video, but deffinetly not s video, going from video out source on surround sound unit to video in on tv. In the past that did the trick. When I switch to disc and watch movie, I have surround sound, but when I switch to tv/av I have no surround sound from tv channels.
With the same above set up I used to, so I'm very confused as well. Because as I said same set up used to work now only surround sound from dvd player,, Please help,, I also changed video cable, thinking it might be the cable, but same thing.
Thanks again
Bruce
AnswerDear Bruce,
The only ways to get incoming cable audio in surround sound into your receiver are (1) to connect a digital, coaxial or fiber optic, AUDIO OUT from the cable box to an available AUDIO IN on your receiver or (2) run the input cable from the cable box through your DVD player's ANTENNA IN and run the DVD player's ANTENNA OUT to the ANTENNA IN on your TV. Since the DVD player decodes multi-channel audio, it will pick up the surround sound from the cable. Then again, not all DVD players, especially the older ones, have ANTENNA IN/ANTENNA OUT connections.
You can also get TV sound through your surround system, tho' not in surround sound, by connecting AUDIO OUT on the TV to an available AUDIO IN on your receiver. However, TVs have notoriously weak audio outputs, so you have to turn the volume up considerably.
If none of this works, I suggest you try allexperts volunteer "cleggsan". He knows more about this stuff than anyone I know, and may have a solution I haven't encountered.
Kindest regards,
Kevin
