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Thread: Cable Audio Not working in new HTS |
    
New member Username: Sundog2000
Post Number: 1
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 12:55 am: |
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I am installing my first home theater system and I have the DVD/CD/radio/VCR working. My problem comes with Cable TV. It's not that the sound isn't surround, it's that it's not coming through the home theater system at all.
I am not running the cable from a cable box - it's from a coax plugged into a jack in the wall.
Wall-> Coax -> VCR IN -> VCR OUT -> Coax -> TV IN TV OUT -> RED/WHITE/YELLOW (RCA?) -> Samsung DVD Home Theater System Auxilary 1 ports.
When I hooked up my VCR to Auxilary 1, it worked. So I think the HTS itself works. So I think I have eliminated the possibilities except for either my TV OUT being defective, or there being a menu setting in my TV that I have overlooked.
When I check the manual for my TV (an older Philips Magnavox TP36810, it basically says to hook up the cables and turn both systems on. Great help that is - and the manual's instructios don't really correspond to the menus I see on my TV. Magnavox's web site is down, but I really doubt theyw ill have better documentation there, for this TV that is six years old.
Am I missing something big here?
Any Magnavox owners that know of a special setting that will enable audio output to work?
Is there a way to confirm that audio is getting put on those lines from the TV to the receiver?
Thanks,
Nick
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Gold Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 2182
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 01:17 pm: |
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check this
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/3/113395.html |
New member Username: Sundog2000
Post Number: 2
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 01:57 pm: |
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Thanks for the direction.
I think that this image is a good display of my setup: http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/3/113705.jpg except I also have a VCR between the cable and TV (with lines running from the VCR to the receiver as well. So I feel like this reassures me that I have done the cabling properly.
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New member Username: Sundog2000
Post Number: 3
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 08:26 pm: |
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I have implemented a work-around solution - I am taking the audio out from my VCR to the receiver, and using the VCR to watch cable.
The Magnavox support person I spoke with concluded that the audio out must have been bad. I'm not entirely convinced, but, this work-around works, although it's not entirely satisfying. |
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