will the box convert an ARC (Audio Return Channel ) - I have a samsung curve 9000 series that comes with a one connect box need to hook surrond sound?
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Keep in mind that if you are wanting your tv to output sound to a surround sound system. You can use the optical (toslink) output of tv to a surround sound system.
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I would recommend contacting Kanex directly. I do not believe the unit will support ARC. Here is the number (888) 975-1368
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Without knowing more about you setup (type of TV, etc.) I cannot answer with certainty. If you have the receiver and the TV connection via HDMI from the receivers HDMI out you might be able to use TV audio return channel. Otherwise connecting the optical cable should work, just make sure you have the correct mode selected on the receiver. I believe it is TV but it could be different. Check the manual.
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Yes. I purchased an Amazon HDMI (ARC) cable to connect my main unit HTB770 ARC output to the TV HDMI ARC input. It woks great and gives you on/off and volume control.
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The device you're connecting to is most likely not HMDI Audio Return Channel (ARC) capable, if you read in the instruction manual it says you can only use the HDMI with devices that are ARC capable. I personally connect mine through the SPDIF / optical connection, optical cables are cheap if you look around online, and most modern TVs within the past 3 or 4 years all have SPDIF outputs. The SPDIF jack kind-of looks like a USB type-b acceptor but with a flap over it. I would suggest seeing if your TV or other device has this.
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I assume you are looking to run the audio out from TV to an audio receiver or similar. The Audio Return Channel (ARC) running through the HDMI connector labeled for ARC appears to only support stereo (2 channel) audio. The original source should be irrelevant. I have a Sony 7.1 channel audio receiver hooked up and attempted to run all my sources (Verizon FIOS box, PS3, etc) directly into the TV and then have it forward the audio to the receiver via ARC in order to avoid having to use the HDMI video switching in the receiver. However I found that it took my 7.1 sources and only passed through 2 channels (L/R)!!! It's not clear whether the TV internals or the connection is limiting this, but if you dig into specs you'll see that the quality of audio that you'll get via ARC is dependent on what the device is built to send through and TVs often only support 2ch as their own built-in speakers are limited to this. With this TV however, you do have the option of using the optical audio out connector from the TV to receiver which does support 5.1. It does NOT support 7.1. Since I refuse to have two useless speakers I had to wire all sources back through the A/V receiver first and then a single HDMI out to the TV so the TV is not in the audio path at all. The drawback is less clean input source changing but I can live with that. The only exception is when the TV itself is the audio source for example when using the Apps like Skype, Amazon VoD, HBO Go, etc. For those I used the optical audio out from TV mentioned above which results in a good 5.1 to my audio system (I doubt the apps or their content really support 7.1 anyway). Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but as I learned there are a lot of details to this. If you only care about 5.1 and not 7.1, then I suggest you use the optical audio instead of ARC and then it should work fine at the very least for any HDMI input to the TV (I haven't tried any others).
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Sort of, but on my Yamaha system with a FIOS DVR cable box (never a problem), the Samsung TV 60" 3D ARC.... it is difficult to get the Yamaha to be in charge of the sound. I find that I can start the Cable box, then the TV which in turn turns on the Yamaha, so far so good. Often the Yamaha comes up on HDMI 1, where it's plugged and with 5.1 channels enhanced, but then the TV messes with it and looses the sound so it reverts to the native sound in the TV, argh. I use my Yamaha controller to reselect the HDMI 1 input and more often than not it allows the Yamaha to takes over the sound. Not very smooth and a bit complicated for my non teen kids. Sort of, but on my Yamaha system with a FIOS DVR cable box (never a problem), the Samsung TV 60" 3D ARC.... it is difficult to get the Yamaha to be in charge of the sound. I find that I can start the Cable box, then the TV which in turn turns on the Yamaha, so far so good. Often the Yamaha comes up on HDMI 1, where it's plugged and with 5.1 channels enhanced, but then the TV messes with it and looses the sound so it reverts to the native sound in the TV, argh. I use my Yamaha controller to reselect the HDMI 1 input and more often than not it allows the Yamaha to takes over the sound.... » Read More Sort of, but on my Yamaha system with a FIOS DVR cable box (never a problem), the Samsung TV 60" 3D ARC.... it is difficult to get the Yamaha to be in charge of the sound. I find that I can start the Cable box, then the TV which in turn turns on the Yamaha, so far so good. Often the Yamaha comes up on HDMI 1, where it's plugged and with 5.1 channels enhanced, but then the TV messes with it and looses the sound so it reverts to the native sound in the TV, argh. I use my Yamaha controller to reselect the HDMI 1 input and more often than not it allows the Yamaha to takes over the sound. Not very smooth and a bit complicated for my non teen kids. « Show Less
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If you do not have an ARC HDMI connection on your TV use the digital output on your TV to the digital Input on your receiver with a Toslink cable. This is what I had to do and it works perfectly.
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Your receiver should support ARC (Audio Return Channel), make sure it is enable on the receiver. That's how the sound from my over the air tv get's back to the receiver
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I got mine to work using the arc input. I tried all others and it would not work. Same hdmi cable just a different port on my tv/soundbar.
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I guess you could do it that way. If you're TV has ARC support like mine does then I hooked up my components directly to the TV and then ran 1 hdmi cable from the ARC connection on the TV to the connection on the soundbar.
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Yes, the system has a TV Arc setting which allow audio from television to play through system. TV arc doesn't work with all HDMI cables. If TV Arc doesn't work with one cable try another one.
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Note that I purchased this unit to be able to run the lone audio out (SPDIF) from my new TV into my older integrated Amp (RCA inputs only). The converter's input is SPDIF or Coaxial, output analog RCA and 3.5mm headphone. Not sure how you wish to configure from your question, can you provide more detail, please?
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Sound will go out to this TV Sound System when connected to a Sony TV with ARC if you selected on the TV to be on external speakers. However, you may choose the sound to be output on the TV speakers when you select TV speaker instead of external speaker. This may be applied if you have other devices like cable box to be connected on the HDMI IN on this sound system and you just wanted to have it on the TV speaker system. (Pass through) -Ely
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Here's the info I got from Vizio when I asked them the same question. Hopefully it's applicable to Panasonic TV.These are the steps that you will need to take to enable ARC (Audio Return Channel):-Make sure audio receiver is ARC compatible and TV is ARC compatible.-Ensure that you have an HDMI 1.4 cable that is multi-directional-Use HDMI 1 on TV and it will need to be plugged into the HDMI OUT of receiver-Change Digital Audio to Dolby Digital-Turn off internal speakers-Turn CEC on-Ensure receiver is in TV control and in discoverable mode -Search for device under CEC menu - Select your audio receiver that shows under the menu-This will unlock System Audio Control (under CEC). Here's the info I got from Vizio when I asked them the same question. Hopefully it's applicable to Panasonic TV.These are the steps that you will need to take to enable ARC (Audio Return Channel):-Make sure audio receiver is ARC compatible and TV is ARC compatible.-Ensure that you have an HDMI 1.4 cable that is multi-directional-Use HDMI 1 on TV and it will need to be plugged into the HDMI OUT of receiver-Change Digital Audio to Dolby Digital-Turn off internal speakers-Turn CEC on-Ensure receiver is in TV control and in... » Read More Here's the info I got from Vizio when I asked them the same question. Hopefully it's applicable to Panasonic TV.These are the steps that you will need to take to enable ARC (Audio Return Channel):-Make sure audio receiver is ARC compatible and TV is ARC compatible.-Ensure that you have an HDMI 1.4 cable that is multi-directional-Use HDMI 1 on TV and it will need to be plugged into the HDMI OUT of receiver-Change Digital Audio to Dolby Digital-Turn off internal speakers-Turn CEC on-Ensure receiver is in TV control and in discoverable mode -Search for device under CEC menu - Select your audio receiver that shows under the menu-This will unlock System Audio Control (under CEC). « Show Less
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My Sony is older and does not have ARC, but occasionally the command pass through seems to work. Mostly from the (Sony) Blu Ray. Generally it's worth having the HDMI connection, if only to automatically shutdown the Soundbar when the TV is turned off.
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From the user manual: "1.1 Features 1. Convert DTS/AC3 source digital audio to analog 2.0 ch stereo audio output" -- The device does this quite well, although I did have to trim back the sampling rate of the optical output on my computer a bit to avoid some distortion. However it sounds like this is not what you are looking for. What you want would be probably be a true decoder, which means plenty of $$$$
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I prefer to hook my critical video equipment, especially reference equipment, directly to my monitor. You can use the ARC HDMI to get TV sound out of the Receiver.there 'has' to be 'some' information lost in the translation, imo.