Movies and TV Surround Sound Help!

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 06:15 PM

I bought a new tv, I have my surround sound hooked up. My surround sound works when I play a dvd through it. My TV and Xbox when hooked up the sound doesn't work. My tv shows the home theater is hooked up because when I use the tv remote it says home theater volume instead of my TV volume. I have my tv's digital audio output hooked into my receivers digital audio input. What can I do? Does this even make sense?

jspchief · 06-01-2013, 06:25 PM

Is everything run through the receiver?

It's really hard to say without knowing the receiver and how you've connected it all. Lot of ways to do it wrong and still get some things to work.

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 06:27 PM

tv is a panasonic tc-p50s60, the receiver is a sa-bt200. The receiver only has an hdmi output for the blue ray part. So, i need to hook everything else up through different ways to my receiver for the sound to work?

kepp · 06-01-2013, 06:41 PM

I run my PS3 digitial audio directly to my receiver and not through the TV. I've never tried it any other way. Do you have the necessary hookup (coax or optical) to do that? If so, I'd try it.

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 06:45 PM

Ya, I actually just tried that and I get nothing still. This is getting really frustrating.

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 06:51 PM

Ok, when I hook up the red/white plugs from my xbox to my receiver the sound works. I can't get the netflix from my tv to the receiver to work though.

Silock · 06-01-2013, 07:01 PM

Is your receiver set to output to all speakers? Many times, analog and digital inputs will have different settings within the receiver, even on the same input slot.

'Hamas' Jenkins · 06-01-2013, 07:11 PM

Take a picture of the back of your receiver. Then take a picture of the back of each of your components. Post them here and I should be able to walk you through it.

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 07:16 PM

http://www.manualowl.com/m/Panasonic.../Manual/122968
page 6 is the back of my receiver.

http://www.dolby.com/us/en/consumer/...e/xbox360.html
this is how the xbox 360 connects with the digital audio

http://service.us.panasonic.com/OPERMANPDF/TCP42S60.PDF
page 13 is back of my tv

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 07:16 PM

does that work, or do you want to see how I have it connected also?

'Hamas' Jenkins · 06-01-2013, 07:18 PM

Do you have cable or satellite?

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 07:21 PM

nothing right now, i am wanting netflix from my tv to work with surround sound and my xbox for games. If I have to use xbox for netflix thats fine just not as easy to use as the tv version.

'Hamas' Jenkins · 06-01-2013, 07:25 PM

Just so we're clear:

Your only components at this point are:

An Xbox 360
Your Blu-Ray HTIB
Your TV

TambaBerry · 06-01-2013, 07:28 PM

'Hamas' Jenkins · 06-01-2013, 07:31 PM

Easiest way to do it is as follows:

Connect an optical cable from the back of your XBox to Optical Digital In 2
Connect an HDMI cable from your BD HTIB to your TV.

06-01-2013, 06:15 PM
TambaBerry MVP Join Date: Jan 2013 Casino cash: $-1374459	Surround Sound Help! I bought a new tv, I have my surround sound hooked up. My surround sound works when I play a dvd through it. My TV and Xbox when hooked up the sound doesn't work. My tv shows the home theater is hooked up because when I use the tv remote it says home theater volume instead of my TV volume. I have my tv's digital audio output hooked into my receivers digital audio input. What can I do? Does this even make sense?
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06-01-2013, 06:25 PM	#2
jspchief BAMF Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Your Face Casino cash: $9998710	Is everything run through the receiver? It's really hard to say without knowing the receiver and how you've connected it all. Lot of ways to do it wrong and still get some things to work. __________________ Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
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06-01-2013, 06:27 PM	#3
TambaBerry MVP Join Date: Jan 2013 Casino cash: $-1374459	tv is a panasonic tc-p50s60, the receiver is a sa-bt200. The receiver only has an hdmi output for the blue ray part. So, i need to hook everything else up through different ways to my receiver for the sound to work?
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06-01-2013, 06:41 PM	#4
kepp MVP Join Date: Aug 2005 Casino cash: $3519212	I run my PS3 digitial audio directly to my receiver and not through the TV. I've never tried it any other way. Do you have the necessary hookup (coax or optical) to do that? If so, I'd try it.
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06-01-2013, 06:45 PM	#5
TambaBerry MVP Join Date: Jan 2013 Casino cash: $-1374459	Ya, I actually just tried that and I get nothing still. This is getting really frustrating.
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06-01-2013, 06:51 PM	#6
TambaBerry MVP Join Date: Jan 2013 Casino cash: $-1374459	Ok, when I hook up the red/white plugs from my xbox to my receiver the sound works. I can't get the netflix from my tv to the receiver to work though.
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06-01-2013, 07:01 PM	#7
Silock MVP Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Overland Park Casino cash: $10020882	Is your receiver set to output to all speakers? Many times, analog and digital inputs will have different settings within the receiver, even on the same input slot.
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06-01-2013, 07:11 PM	#8
'Hamas' Jenkins Now you've pissed me off! Join Date: Jan 2006 Casino cash: $7249572	Take a picture of the back of your receiver. Then take a picture of the back of each of your components. Post them here and I should be able to walk you through it. __________________ "When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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06-01-2013, 07:16 PM	#9
TambaBerry MVP Join Date: Jan 2013 Casino cash: $-1374459	http://www.manualowl.com/m/Panasonic.../Manual/122968 page 6 is the back of my receiver. http://www.dolby.com/us/en/consumer/...e/xbox360.html this is how the xbox 360 connects with the digital audio http://service.us.panasonic.com/OPERMANPDF/TCP42S60.PDF page 13 is back of my tv
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06-01-2013, 07:18 PM	#11
'Hamas' Jenkins Now you've pissed me off! Join Date: Jan 2006 Casino cash: $7249572	Do you have cable or satellite? __________________ "When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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06-01-2013, 07:21 PM	#12
TambaBerry MVP Join Date: Jan 2013 Casino cash: $-1374459	nothing right now, i am wanting netflix from my tv to work with surround sound and my xbox for games. If I have to use xbox for netflix thats fine just not as easy to use as the tv version.
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06-01-2013, 07:25 PM	#13
'Hamas' Jenkins Now you've pissed me off! Join Date: Jan 2006 Casino cash: $7249572	Just so we're clear: Your only components at this point are: An Xbox 360 Your Blu-Ray HTIB Your TV __________________ "When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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06-01-2013, 07:31 PM	#15
'Hamas' Jenkins Now you've pissed me off! Join Date: Jan 2006 Casino cash: $7249572	Easiest way to do it is as follows: Connect an optical cable from the back of your XBox to Optical Digital In 2 Connect an HDMI cable from your BD HTIB to your TV. __________________ "When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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