Guest uwot Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 I have a Samsung q9 Plasma and have just brout a Yamaha amp YT195. I also got a samsung DVD player DVD-1080p8 with upscaling and a hdmi. I have a HDMI out from my DVD and into the amp and a HDMI from my amp to the plasma I cant get any thing through the speakers.. DVD or TV ??? Do I need to add a optic cable from the TV to the amp? Please help as I am going mad trying to work out what should be a simple process..
Guest uwot Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 Have you read the manual? Yeah it keeps reffering to HDMI not being able to push sound through the speakers (only those on the TV) but I thought the idea of HDMI was that the Sound and vision was all within the one cable .. Do I have to add an optic cable as well?
Shonky* Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 (edited) Yeah reading the manual will help. So will describing the problem better. You've said "speakers". TV speakers or HT speakers? If you want TV audio to work through the HT, you will need either an 2xRCA analogue cable from the TV to the receiver (for simple stereo) or a optical cable from the TV to the receiver (for 5.1). If you are watching a DVD, the HDMI cable from the player to the receiver is enough for sound out of the HT speakers. The player might need to be set to output sound appropriately on the HDMI cable. From the receiver to the TV it should be enough to use the TV speakers too assuming it's passed as PCM (preferably 2 channel) Is everything else wired up properly? Volume turned up appropriately? Not on mute? Edited July 2, 2008 by Shonky*
sold Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 Do I need to add a optic cable from the TV to the amp? You need an optical cable from the DVD to AMP if you want sound through the AMP as it only supports HDMI switching not decoding. However you should get sound on the TV from the without adding any cables, it's possible it's an issues with the sound output format. Try setting it to 2 channel PCM if possible as there seems to be issues with DD/DTS streams via HDMI to some TVs (though this will probably stop you getting surround sound on the AMP unless there is different settings for HDMI and S/PDIF, which is unlikely). In short I'd run an optical cable from DVD to AMP and use that, rather than the TV speakers any time you wanted to watch a DVD.
Falken Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 To my point of view it should be the setting of the DVD player instead of the receiver and the TV. Properly you may have to change the audio setting of the DVD player. Personally for audio outputs, optical digital is a better choice because is more popular for dolby diggital surround sound, I used optical output instead of HDMI for PS3 and Xbox 360 anway.
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