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Hi,
I have royally screwed the cabling to my TV and surround.
Could you please help me with a configuration using only HDMI (and optical) with the following kit:
Samsung UE40ES6300 Smart TV (3 HDMI)
Samsung HT-E5550 Blu-Ray/Surround (2 HDM
PS3
Sky+ HD (optical from TV to Sky in place)
4-way+1 out HDMI switch box
At the moment, I have nothing.
Thanks in advance.
Neil
I have royally screwed the cabling to my TV and surround.
Could you please help me with a configuration using only HDMI (and optical) with the following kit:
Samsung UE40ES6300 Smart TV (3 HDMI)
Samsung HT-E5550 Blu-Ray/Surround (2 HDM
PS3
Sky+ HD (optical from TV to Sky in place)
4-way+1 out HDMI switch box
At the moment, I have nothing.
Thanks in advance.
Neil
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OK. So do this.
Surround HDMI OUT to TV HDMI 2
Sky HDMI to TV HDMI 1
Sky Optical OUT to Surround Optical IN
PS3 HDMI OUT to Surround HDMI 1 IN
Not sure what you want the HDMI switch box to do but with the kit you've listed it is pretty much redundant.
If you hook it up like this then the Surround system should get audio from the TV back down the HDMI using the Audio Return Channel (ARC). From looking at the manual on-line the TV seems to have ARC on HDMI 2. But you would need to check that. It may also be necessary to dive into the menus of the TV and surround system to configure ARC.
There is no point connecting the Sky box via HDMI to the surround system. It only does stereo over HDMI, to get surround sound from those channels broadcasting it you have to use the optical connection.
The PS3 however should send surround sound over HDMI so that can be connected to the surround system.
Makes it a tad more complicated than it needs to be because of Sky. You would need to select HDMI 1 on the telly to see the pictures and OPTICAL on the surround to make the noise.
Selecting HDMI 2 on the telly allows you to watch the Blu-Ray in the surround system or the PS3 depending on what you select on the surround system. If Sky did surround over HDMI then you could plug that into the surround system, leave the telly on HDMI 2 and use the surround system alone to select what you watch and listen to.
I told a while lie about the optical. It's going from surround to Sky.
I'll try those connections.
The way I've 'pseudo' restored the connections means I have no sound from the smart hub apps at the moment, for example BBC iPlayer.
The switch box was for when I had my old PC connected via HDMI before I got the Mac, which itself only has one Thunderbolt connection (which is occupied by my external hard disk).
I'll let you know how I get on.
N.
You may also then have to configure both the TV and surround system to get ARC working. If It does work then the audio from the TV should be fed back down the ARC channel on the HDMI lead to the surround system. So that should take care of the Smart features on the telly and Freeview if you use that at all.
www.amazon.co.uk/AmazonBasics-High-Speed-Supports-Ethernet-Standard/dp/B003L1ZYYM
On the other hand if you've had your brain removed...
http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/product/4444/wireworld-platinum-starlight-6-hdmi-high-speed-with-ethernet-2m
:eek::eek::D
Thankyou so much for your help.
N.
Any ideas?
N.
For example if I enable it on my system I cannot play a CD in my Blu-Ray player without leaving the TV turned on! If I put a disk in the Blu-Ray it wakes up the TV. But I don't need the TV on to play a CD so I turn the TV off. Which turns the Blu-Ray off! So I turn the Blu-Ray back on which turns the TV back on. And so on and so on. So I just turn it all off and then I have control of the technology not the other way round
N.
And SCART beats them all
(apart for the obvious lack of HD of course )
Try turning AnyNet+ OFF and see what happens, if that doesn't cure it, check for settings on the amp.
If it's not that then chuck it in the bin and get yourself a proper system
The auto-turn off would, but it 'may' be sending a signal to the amplifier (via CEC) telling it that the TV has been turned off, and causing that to shut down as well.
I've recently been playing with my Raspberry Pi on a Sony TV, and when you shut down the Pi it turns the TV off first - so presumably the Pi does CEC?.
Certainly my TV and Blu-Ray turn each other on and off instantly when I have CEC enabled.
You can never tell with CEC, it does some weird things!
N.
Yep - weird things
I would look for an auto turn off setting on the home theatre and try that instead and leave Anynet turned on.
I re-connected my system according to your original reply to the topic, so yes, I use ARC.
N.
Bit like my Blu-Ray player assuming that if I put a disk in the drive it must have video so I must want the TV on. Even though it's an audio CD and there are no pictures!
Sometimes the technology tries to be too clever and fails miserably.
Third time now - weird!
CEC is a nice idea, but it always seems to either not do what you do want, or to do things you don't want.
I've just noticed, that since the reconnections, as above, my Sky sound is coming through HDMI and not the connected optical. Both ends of the optical are showing red as expected.
Any ideas?
Neil