How do I get my Tivo Premiere remote to control this soundbar? I am using an optical cable to connect to Samsung TV.
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Tivo can be tricky, and I don't currently use it. I found this link that might help you. From what I can tell it looks like HDMI might be the only way to make it work. Good luck. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=9442932
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I have mine connected via hdmi and can use my tv remote to control volume. There is a slight delay between when the tv is turned on and when the sound bar turns on.
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I have my TV connected to the Soundbar via optical as well and it works fine. I had to buy the cable separately though. I would think that HDMI is all you need since the Soundbar acts as an HDMI hub.
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Hi Jimmy, I just discovered with my Vizio Soundbar that once the Sony remote was set to the TV, it was auto controlling the sound bar volume, just not the ability to turn it on/off
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Anyone know where I can get a remote for the sound bar. I looked online and they are $80! Is there a universal one? Know where and what brand? Thank u
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I have a premiere as well. It works with the premiere. There is a USB fob that plugs in the back, which allows it to work without a line of site to the tivo.
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I had to run the optical directly from TV to soundbar to fix issue of no sound with cable/satellite receiver and DVD player. It now works with everything.
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You have to hook up an optical cable from the TV to the soundbar, then it will work when you put the soundbar in the optical mode
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Jim, i have this unit and hdmi is finicky so i couldn't get it to work. So no big loss. Instead, use fiber optic audio output of tv to feed optical input of soundbar and all will be good.Regards,Greg
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This is how I connected my units. I have Time Warner cable, a Samsung smart TV and a Blu-Ray player.I connected the sound bar to the TV using the optical cable. If your TV does not have an optical connection, you will need to use an HDMI cable for this. Next, I ran an HDMI cable from the cable box to the sound bar. Finally, I connected the Blu-ray unit to the sound bar via an HDMI cable. Then I set the TV volume to zero to get no sound from the TV speakers. I hope this helps.
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There is an optical output in the TV , the optical input from sound bar should be connected to the optical output of the TV. I am not sure if this will work with other TV. I think if there is an optical output, it may work.
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I don't understand the question, but if the question is, if your TV remote will operate the soundbar - I don't know, I use the remote that came with the soundbar.
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The red and white cables aren't digital. That's the analog rca cables. Switch the soundbar to the "aux input" on the remote. If you wanted to use the digital input you would have to connect the tv to the sound at with a digital optical(toslink) cable. Hope this helps!
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Hope you don't think I am being a wiseass, but are the blue lights on your soundbar on? Our first mistake was thinking that the green power light was "on". If the blue lights are not on, that is probably your problem. Next was the source. We use our bar on source 2, (there will be two blue lights on). The directions are poorly written, so we called the tech support number in the instructions. I recommend you do the same. The guy will walk you through syncing the remotes, and any other questions you may have. You will definitely want to sync this to your main remote. Hope this helps.
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There are three output ports on this soundbar--two are Optical Digital and one is Digital Audio Coax. Here are the exact cables I purchased: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LT2C5W/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002J2B8I/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The one specifically labeled as TV on the soundbar is one of the optical ones, but if your TV doesn't have that type of port, you can use the coax one and remember to hit the right button on the soundbar/remote when you use it. Hope this helps!
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while the optical input of the soundbar can work with any TV, it creates a situation where you need to program your remore to control the soundbar volume and you need to keep the soundbar always on. the HDMI ARC control where the tv contols the volume and the soundbar volume will not likely work with any samsung tv.
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i had the same problem it worked at moms house with hdmi cable but i couldnt get it to work on my tv. got a optical cable and it now works great. try that i believe you will have a working jbl sound bar