Will stereo audio come through TV from HDMI-out from the switch, even if I have an optical cable plugged into my Receiver but Receiver turned off?
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Yes. I have the exact setup you describe. I hear audio through the HDMI to my TV, and can turn on the stereo receiver and change the switch to 5.1 when I want surround sound. One point is, there is a slight audio delay between the HDMI and fiber outputs depending on the switch being on 2ch or 5.1ch. If the Monoprice is on 2ch, the tv is muted, and the receiver is turned on, the audio is slightly (milliseconds) out of sync with the video signal. But if I'm using the receiver and the Monoprice is on 5.1, the audio is synced up.
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It will help because it separates the digital audio signal from the HDMI cable and lets you send it to your stereo via optical cable. So if you are asking if this will help you get optical audio to your stereo because your TV can't send it directly then yes it will.
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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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You need a receiver that does HDMI Audio Decoding, which until recently has only been availabe in upper-echelon receivers. Most recently the Onkyo 605/605 and comparable Yamaha's and Denons do decode 5.1 and Dolby True HD / DTS Master Audio. If a receiver is labelled pass-through that means it won't be able to split off the audio from the HDMI signal and will just give it to the TV, and you'll have to use a separate digital optical or digital coaxial cable to send to the receiver from your DVD, DVR, Blu-ray, etc. Sucks doesn't it?
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Mine is plugged into a switched 110 volt outlet on the back of my stereo receiver. When the receiver is off, the outlet is off. However, as others have said, it doesnt need to be turned off.
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Yes. The HDMI picture and sound from any input can be routed to either or both outputs simultaneously. Watch a blu-ray in one room and a ball game on cable tv in the other room. The SPDIF Digital Optical or Hi-Fi Stereo 3.5mm outputs only go through the A output. This is only limiting if you are not using HDMI to send sound to something like an older AVR or sound bar. The only caveat with almost any splitter is that when switching inputs and outputs it might affect both outputs, meaning the devices resync resulting in temporary picture and or sound loss on one or both outputs. All HDMI components are different and the degree of these switching glitches can vary in length and severity from a few seconds to as much as 20 seconds. This is not necessarily going to be your case but it is likely to happen to some degree and is something most of us can live with. Once you are settled in on your selected sources viewing should be clean on either output. J-Tech makes some good splitters and switches so I would give it try. The worst case scenario is that you end up returning it for a full refund. I would bet it will work for you albeit with some switching transients.
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PamRosa,We haven't tested that, so it's difficult to give a definitive answer. You can try by using an RCA cable to your receiver from the "audio out" port while it's connected. If not, however, we can't offer support on how to make that happen. HDMI usually carries both the audio and video through the same cable, and the design may not offer an option.--Mr. S
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If you have HDMI source connected, then RCA will have 2 channel sound, but you may have to set switch on unit to 2 channel
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It depends on your TV. Many don't relay sound from HDMI in to their own OUT ports, or (as Brandon suggested) might do so only after their settings were changed (see TV manual). See AVSForum.com for discussion and a place to get more detailed help.
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Does the receiver do HDMI pass through? SO even when turned off it's passing the signal through the receiver?
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Whatever device is plugged into the master switch will control the adjacent plugs.Ie if you turn off your tv with your remote (master) your Xbox and surround sound system will have the power to them cut. When you turn on your tv with the remote they will power on as we'll.
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I assume that your problem is related to the RCA audio output. I never experienced the problem you are having. My system switches between hdmi inputs from a comcast hdmi box, an inexpensive blu ray disc player, and an apple mac book pro. I did notice that that the inexpensive blu ray disc player hdmi connection to the switch and then via the analog audio interface to my audio mixer system caused a speaker hiss which I didn't get with my other components. I rewired my system to have the blu ray disc's audio go directly to my audio mixer system and that fixed the speaker hiss problem.
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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
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That's usually an option within the settings on your tv not the receiver. Might want to browse through some settings and see if it turned off the tv speakers when you connected to your receiver.
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No but there is a solution.The audio output is via stereo jack or the hdmi. What I did to have 5.1surround through a n optical cable was to connect the hdmi audio/video out to an hdmi / sprig (optical) splitter. You get as an output the hdmi signal + optical audio. I am using the viewHD splitter and it works perfectly
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Whatever device is plugged into the master switch will control the adjacent plugs. Ie if you turn off your tv with your remote (master) your Xbox and surround sound system will have the power to them cut. When you turn on your tv with the remote they will power on as we'll.
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No. The coaxial output is only digital audio. All the video goes out the HDMI output. I have found that some video sources only send the 5.1 Dolby audio out the HDMI (or possibly the optical output) unless it is changed to 2 channel stereo. For example, I have a Blue Ray video and playing it on my Sony BD player, only the background audio that is not in the selected language goes out the Coax port. The language audio (i.e. all the talking) goes mute unless I change this switcher into 2 channel stereo mode. Then the audio comes out the coax. Without doing this, the only audio heard is the sound effects like shoes walking, engine noises, etc. with no talking. I don't like that. I lose the 5.1 Dolby Surround for these videos.