I have a brighthouse cable box plugged directly into my Onkyo receiver. The HDMI output from recever to HDMI 1 port on TV. How do I get the apps to play sound through my receiver? Youtube, Pandora, etc they all play through the TV speakers instead of...
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There aren't many Tvs out three capable of turning 2D content to 3d. I didn't get a chance to put it in the original review but try this out for 3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpjKednC7g&feature=youtube_gdata_player. As for the sound, hdmi into port 1 only bring audio and video into the tv, you still need to run audio cables out to the receiver (red and white audio out located on the side of the tv. You've got to then go into the sound settings and turn off the internal speaker and switch the analog out setting to fixed. You're cable provider may offer free Ed content but short of a 3d bluray player, YouTube is the best place to find video.
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Does the Audyssey Dynamic Volume work for keeping commercials from overpowering shows? I am in the same boat as you i'm looking to purchase an av receiver and have it narrowed down to three any help would be great. I use the receiver for music tv and blue ray. I'm trying to decide between the Onkyo 507 the pioneer vsx-819 and the denon avr-589. I see that people seem to prefer the onkyo's whats the deal with that?
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Hey W. Chou is your X-box hooked up with hdmi? cause if it isn't then the problem is the Onkyo 5300 series does not up-convert so it has to come out of the receiver the same way it goes in. If your hooking up component video from the x-box then you have to run component video to the projector i almost made that mistake but i got the onkyo 7300 series that does up-convert it even sends standard composote video through HDMI .
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Michael, it sounds like you're getting your TV signal from your roof antenna (over-the-air) and directly sending that signal to your TV. If that is the case, you are by-passing your receiver (Denon). That's why you're not getting anything when you select TV / Satellite mode on the Denon. I believe you can approach it two ways; 1) re-wire the roof antenna signal, from your TV, and instead, plug it into the Denon receiver (TV input). The Denon will simply pass the TV information to your TV via the HDMI cable you have connected between the Denon and your TV monitor (TV screen), and amplify the audio portion of the signal, allowing for surround sound etc. 2) You can keep your current connection between the roof antenna and your TV monitor, but in order to get the audio signal to your receiver, you will have to connect a wire from your TV (audio output) to the receiver. In this set up, I'm not sure of the best receiver audio input jack to use, but I believe the choices to be TV (in this case, there won't be a TV signal, just audio; I don't think it matters) or an Aux audio input. Whichever path you take, just make sure that you select the corresponding mode on the receiver. Example, if you choose to send the audio signal to the receivers Aux audio input, then select Aux on the receiver when you want the sound to come out of the receiver. I believe the preferred route would be #1 however. Hope this helps, good luck.
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This receiver is HDMI passthrough only i.e. it does not decode audio from the HDMI. You need to either (a) connect an audio out from DirecTV box to the receiver or (b) connect an audio out from TV to the receiver. (a) is preferable so it preserves the sound for decoding by your receiver vs (b) which the TV would downmix to stereo and output to receiver.
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I have my computer connected to my TV, via a HDMI cable; with my TV set as the default playback sound device. This allows me use the sound from my TV for Pandora, YouTube and Windows Media Player (to listen to music). For movies I have the audio output settings on the Daum potplayer and VLC player set to S/PDIF. This allows me to bypass the TV default setting and use the Syba sound adapter connected to my ONKYO receiver via an optical SPDIF to listen to movies in DTS and AC3 sound.
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connect it to the red and white audio out ports... when connected to these everything connected to the tv can play thru the system, haven't had a single issue
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Wht ever ur sound is hooked up to it has output plug bc it receives the input to produce the sound. Usually straight from tv it would br tv output either hdmi or RCA cables. Hope that helps
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I love this Onkyo. However, I recently added a Sony BluRay to my system and to get an extra input I connected it via 6 cable 5.1 direct route (You select Onkyo DVD Multi here). But, I don't understand why there is no output from my powered subwoofer. The optical/digi connections work the sub fine.
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The instruction manual, which I viewed as a pdf on the Onkyo website is a little ambiguous when it comes to a pass-through signal, I know this unit is a repeater so direct pass-through is unlikely; there is an option to have the amp pass the sound to the TV and simply turn down the A/V amp volume; but the unit has to be on; I didn't see any mention of it working with the unit turned off. I can't tell you any more at this point as I haven't received the unit yet; should arrive tomorrow!
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Read the manual. You must select source. Call Onkyo if need be.mine works fine
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Hi missy, your DIRECTV Receiver SHOULD have an HDMI output. If indeed it's an HD Receiver. Just connect it straight to one of your HDMI Inputs on your display. What model do you have? H20, HR21? For your onkyo, you should connect your DIRECTV straight to your surround system, using an optical or digital coaxial cable. PS3? I don' t know much about game consoles. I'll ask my brother who knows more about this than I do, and get back to you.
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I have 3 components connected to my receiver - An Amazon TV, a Blu-Ray disk player and the Directv receiver - all using HDMI cables. You do need to have the receiver on, but how else would you get that beautiful sound! If your DirecTV receiver doesn't have an HDMI output, you can connect the DirecTV box to the composite video inputs on the front of the receiver and select the V-Aux input on the remote control. You may be able to connect it to one of the composite video inputs on the back, but I didn't try that. I hope that helps. TopCatOnyx
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The receiver needs to be on for anything you connect to it's hdmi inputs to be heard and/or seen. You can watch TV and listen to it through your tv speakers with the receiver off, but you won't get the digital (optical out) sound coming through your speakers that are hooked up to the receiver. As far as game consoles, blu-rays, streaming boxes, etc., if these things are connected to the receiver's hdmi inputs, in order for your to hear and see them, the receiver will have to be on.
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Try pressing the "A.F.D/2CH" button on the reciever remote. Try making sure the "pure direct" button on the reciever isn't on. If you have an hdmi cable connected to the tv you can access plenty of speaker and sound options if you press the "home" button on the remote. Hope this helps!!
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Check the Onkyo website FAQs for your unit. There is a list of reasons there. It isn't explained well in their manual. Make sure your blu ray isn't doing the decoding and sending a multichannel signal.
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Call Onkyo customer service. I had the same issue and they took care of the problem. My receiver was repaired and shipped back to me in about a week. I was very impressed. Hope you have the same experience.