When I plug my DirecTV output into this splitter and then from there to both my TV and my Receiver,Dolby Digital goes away...Ideas?
1446046
In my experience with this product, it never worked the way it was designed to. It is a total piece of junk. You and I are not alone in losing 20 bucks for something that does not work. I don't want to waste the time it would take to return it, and that's what the manufacturer is hoping for.
1446047
To be honest, I have no idea why. Mine just took it out of the box and connected my ps4, and the from there my 2 tvs, nothing else connected. Everything it's been working fine.I haven't touched or moved since I installed. Sorry for your issues.
1446048
This will support the hdmi picture but is not setup to transfer to an audio device. I am not sure why but it just will not work
132331
Yes, The optical output to my Receiver works great! I had the same worries before I hooked it up. The HDMI cable went to my HDMI TV and the optical cable I had went to the receiver for my room soundaround speaker system. The TV speakers work also if you don't want to play the receiver, a earlier mention in another post said, he could not get his TV to play sound out the speakers.... NOT true the sound still travels thru the HDMI cable to the HD TV even with the Optical cable plugged in and ran to the receiver. The sound does not designate one or the other and comes out both. I just keep the volume on my HD TV to 0.
776875
Yes, I'm sorry to report we had similar trouble: It knocked out the sound to our whole TV system, which is hooked up through a stereo. We eventually got it back, but every time we plugged the splitter back in, it knocked it out again. I wound up returning it.
2180520
I connected it directly to the tv. My my bluray player ran through my tv as well and therefore the bluray sound went to the surround system.
1917620
Ya im really worried that the feed from my blu-ray player is causing the issue because when i have the player off & its running through the receiver the background is dark black with denon displayed on screen like it should be, then when i turn on the bluray palyer im back to the side lighting isssue. I have a ps3 so i will try it but that means I lose all my hd sound due to the limitations of the ps3. :(
158243
that was my experience; somewhere in the literature in fact says that if you use HDMI or Digital Optical cable, that you have to use the audio cable out as well (defeats the purpose of the HDMI or Digital Optical cable IMO), however it works well with that set-up
820513
That's because your optical cable is running from the receiver to the television, not to the PS3. Anything playing on your television will play through all your surround speakers. You would have to run the optical cable directly from the receiver to the PS3 to get the sound strictly from the PS3.My setup is the same as yours.
1550349
I remember having that issue when I first hooked mine up as well. I think the source for your audio on the TV is messed up. Make sure you have audio coming out of the TV and not through a receiver or make sure the receiver will play the audio.I have to turn off my TV speakers in order for the audio to play tthrough an external source.
1978177
If you have connected tv, receiver, speakers properly, and initialized receiver and did the tone test and everything worked. Then make you chose thru your receiver to direct input signal from tv in receiver choose this setting HD-D.C.S i think this will take care of sound problem.
578838
Like Peter said, not all TV's bridge the sound from an hdmi in to a stereo out(digital/coax etc..) Try using a different output port, or going hdmi to the stereo, and then hdmi to the tv
605797
I just set my system's output to "Dolby Digital" when I watch anything thru my cable box, and I don't have any problem getting full surround sound during games, TV shows, movies, etc.. The "Dolby Digital" setting gives me the best overall sound for TV watching..
727184
Your digital receiver is very common in that it needs to convert all audio, including analog audio, to digital. Unless your receiver has a way to turn off *all* digital processing then there is no way around it. Probably need to buy an analog only amp to avoid this double D/A conversion.
849210
First let me say,The splitter is for satellite TV but I am using one for my "over the air" HDTV whole house system. Now let me qualify that. I am passing DC voltage to the RCA amplifier located at my antenna (on the DC pass through port) and running three TVs off the remaining non-DC passing ports. It is working fine for me in my application. Yours might be different. This over the air HDTV on more that one TV or even combining more than one antenna can get real frustrating! Hope this helps.
218426
We have not had that issue. But, sounds like you have had it happen on a few different systems which seems really odd. I was thinking it was the A/V cables are not in properly or the tv needs to be turned to a different input. Hope that helps!
480402
I believe it to be true and originally ran HDMI to the TV (DirecTV HD-DVR and PS3) and then optical audio out to my receiver. The sound just didn't "pop" out and then I read the TV manual on a whim and couldn't believe that the output only is in 2-channel. I later read somewhere that it is intentional for copyright reasons. Unfortunately, my Surround Sound Receiver also has an annoying limitation whereby it switches HDMI but does not extract the audio from the HDMI connection. So, the workaround for me was to connect the HDMI (for video only) to the TV, keep the TV volume at zero, and connect the digital audio sources from the components to the receiver (which only has two optical audio inputs.) The sound and audio were offset but most good receivers will let you adjust to get them back in-sync.
318948
I just purchased this splitter to do the same thing. If I go directly from the satellite box to the AVR 5.1 works fine. When I split the signal between the AVR and the TV, the signal to the AVR is now only stereo. Any suggestions?
2163629
Try unplugging your powered splitter if you have one. If not, try unplugging the power and the optical (or whichever cables you are using). Wait 10 seconds before hooking back up. If that doesn't do the trick make sure you haven't inadvertently changed the input on the remote. Are you plugged into a surge protector? Check the output on your TV as well.