TV tech

A technical question.
I got me a new flat screen and a new surround sound.
I have dish network TV.
I can get the dish to talk to the TV. I can get the surround sound to talk to the TV using DVD's.
I cannot get the dish to talk to my surround sound so I can watch it on TV.

Anyone know why?

The surround sound is connected to the TV via an HDMI cable.
TH satellite dish connects via a coaxle cable. (spelling)

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Orpheus said:
A technical question.
I got me a new flat screen and a new surround sound.
I have dish network TV.
I can get the dish to talk to the TV. I can get the surround sound to talk to the TV using DVD's.
I cannot get the dish to talk to my surround sound so I can watch it on TV.

Anyone know why?

The surround sound is connected to the TV via an HDMI cable.
TH satellite dish connects via a coaxle cable. (spelling)

Ok so you have vision, and the surround sound is working when playing DVD's, but when watching tv itself, you don't get the sound from the surround set?

Is the cable from the surround set plugged in the TV's SOUND-OUT, and not IN?

Or vice-versa, depending on your situation.

I am ultra-tired at the moment and thinking about these kinds of things make me frustrated but I tried anyway.

Reads post again

I'm not sure if the HDMI cable is enough. I don't know if your speakers are directly plugged into your TV, or first into an amplifier (if that's the right word) and THEN into the tv, but otherwise you could try to plug-in some component cables (Red and White I believe) Or just a regular audio cable.

Hope I understood your problem correct.

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When I first set the TV up all I used was the cord with the red, white and yellow connectors.
The issue was the same as now. I only yesterday remembered that I had a spare HDMI cable.

In theory, I know it should work because about 6 years ago I had cable tv set up through my original surround sound system.

I know its prolly something simple but the surround sound came with no directions.

The Tv is brand new. The surround sound is new in respect that it wasn't used but a week or so and packed away without the directions.

It supposed to be a samsung 1000 watt system. I just don't know which model.

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It depends on the audio receiver (what you're referring to as surround sound system ... it's called audio receiver)

If your audio receiver had HDMI support, you should go through the audio receiver THEN to the TV.

If it doesn't ... then you need to send HDMI to the TV and Optical SPDIF (or coax SPDIF) to the audio receiver. Same goes with all the other devices.

Really, this is just a limitation of the audio receiver itself if it supports it or not. What you really want is one that supports HDMI and up-scaling of all input sources to 1080P on the HDMI line, AS WELL AS pass-through when the audio receiver is off.

Chances are ... if it has HDMI ports, it's just HDMI switching with audio interpretation, but the video it self is pass-through only.

Also, crash course:

Single threaded jack = Cable/Antenna (don't use this for video anymore, seriously)
red + white + yellow = Composite video (480i) and stereo audio
Weird mini-din-5 looking thing = S-Video (480i) no audio (would need to use composite audio cables)
red + white + red + green + blue = component (480i-1080i) progressive scan video + stereo audio
flat plug = HDMI (everything up to 1080P) does everything. All HD video modes, and full digital audio. There are different models, as of version 1.4 it supports full 7.1 audio and network bandwidth. Prior to 1.3 the audio was below 5.1.

Then there's SPDIF ... there's two connectors, optic and coax, coax looks like a composite/component plug. You WANT optic.

What you want is actually just HDMI 1.4 it's highest quality everything ... but, if you can't use HDMI audio, SPDIF optic is your best option (the actual cable is called TOSLINK optic)

You can buy these online from places like PCHCables.com it's a local store here, he's the best prices I know. Do NOT go to something like best buy they're a complete rip off.

Amazon also can have deals sometimes.

If you look up the model of the audio receiver and TV ... I can tell you exactly how to hook it up with what cables. I've had FIOS TV, Dish Network, and DirecTV ... I've had to deal with everyone's bullshit garbage boxes.

To note, you do NOT want to use the TV's audio pass-through back to the audio receiver, there will be a very noticeable delay and it will decode the audio to Dolby 2.0. Aren't TV standards fun!

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