can not get tv sound from home cinema system

Ne5555

I know its off topic and I need to head to technie forum but maybe someone here could help me.
We got sony bluray home cinema system. I love it when dvd is on but we can not get tv sound from home cinema system.
We have been to all shops and they are saying its not possible.
We did spend around £250 at that time thinking will hear the tv sound from the system.
Now we dont watch dvd as much as we used to this cinema system is being used for just decoration.
Unless you watch dvd all the time I wouldnt advise you to get cinema system.

ginster_67

i think there maybe 2 methods but that depends on what your tv has and the blu ray player has .
if you have a spare hdmi slot on the tv and blu ray put a hdmi cable in and that should work or the other one is which i use is an optic cable from the tv to the blu ray but as with both these methods your tv and blu ray have to have the available ports to begin with.
hth

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Ne5555 wrote: »

Unless you watch dvd all the time I wouldnt advise you to get cinema system.

It sounds like your TV connectivity is the issue, but for most it's perfectly possible to pipe TV sound through your home cinema. You need to post more details of your set up with model numbers and make and whether you have Satellite, Cable or (built in) Freeview.

I'm not sure why shops would say it's impossible, but provide more details and perhaps we can help...

googler

We need the make and model of both the TV and home cinema system in order to advise further

forgotmyname

My TV PC uses a HDMI cable. Initially i got no sound until i played with the BIOS settings.

Now sound comes through the HDMI port also.

Ratboy

DVD systems sound great on home entertainment systems, really rock the bass, and give that surround sound.

TV companies, or their masters, turn down the encoders used within the week, so sound and picture poor bandwidth. They turn it up at primetime, but less than a DVD can provide.

So pictures and sound off primetime; look dreadful, but at primetime too much, but the sound suffers either way. GRR!

YAY! For Digital TV! NOT!!!!!!!!!!! Money saving for the broadcasters; a cash in for the Government; who suffers? The public? Who profits? The companies selling expensive equipment, to fools that don't understand the difference. A DVD sounds good, now you need Bluray, making all before obsolete, are they any better? Nope!

Complain to OFCOM, as I have done several times, for the TV companies to use their encoders at the correct strength. Saturday nights they blast pics, but not sound, and it just looks odd, sound via their encoders never works, and sounds dead, compared with playing an encoded DVD

trets77

I am not sure what the previous post was all about.

most TV,s do not have audio outputs, so you really need a set top box with a digital output or Sky box to get the sound out. If your hooking up just the TV arial to the TV then your probably going to struggle.


like others have posted we are going to need you equipment details and how you connect them before further advise can be given.

As for DVD being obsolete ..no way. The rolls royces of DVD players from around 10 years ago are now quite affordable on E-bay. Yes Blu ray will surpass most for HD detail but my DVD kicks blu rays sonic backside and looks wonderfully cinematic. I have both DVD and Blu ray and depending on the film, choose as many DVD's as Blu rays from Love film. And DVD prices are now quite the bargain over blu ray making the investment in a high end DVD player even more worthwhile.

almillar

Spending £250 guarantees you nothing, you need to check specifications before you buy, not the price tag.
Anyway, to help you, we need to know the connections on the Blu-Ray, and the TV, or the model numbers of both.
ginster 67's post is helpful.
You may be able to use ARC, Audio Return Channel which can send the audio from the TV back down to the amp (your Sony)(both devices, and the HDMI cable need to support this, and that's unlikely
Or a digital optical cable from the back of the TV into the Sony (if you TV has a digital optical OUT and the Sony a digital optical IN
Or a stereo phono lead (red and white, right and left) from the TV if it has a phono OUT and the Sony a phono IN
Or, last resort, use the headphone socket from the TV into an input on the Sony.

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trets77 wrote: »

Blu ray will surpass most for HD detail but my DVD kicks blu rays sonic backside and looks wonderfully cinematic.

Blu Rays are encoded with high-resolution soundtrack formats, such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, which are essentially identical to the studio master, so Blu Ray soundtracks are exactly as the director and audio engineers intended.

trets77 wrote: »

I have both DVD and Blu ray and depending on the film, choose as many DVD's as Blu rays from Love film. And DVD prices are now quite the bargain over blu ray making the investment in a high end DVD player even more worthwhile.

With DVD, there were two main types of surround-sound formats, Dolby Digital and DTS. The goal of these formats was to take raw surround-sound audio--which is too large to fit on a DVD--and compress it so it fit on the disc. Both formats use what's called lossy compression, which means that some audio information is thrown away in the compression process.

With Blu-ray, there is far more space available, so both Dolby and DTS have created new soundtrack formats with the aim of throwing away less information and therefore improving audio fidelity.

By all means tell us that your ten year-old high end DVD player still functions more than adequately as far as sound is concerned, but don't tell us that it's better than a modern similarly specified high end Blu-Ray player.

trets77 wrote: »

As for DVD being obsolete ..no way.

I'll only watch a DVD these days if the film title isn't available in HD and, even then, it's rare for me to do that. I agree DVD isn't finished yet, but I think that's more to do with the price differential between the two formats rather than DVD being of equivalent sound and picture quality

Toxteth_OGrady

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

but don't tell us that it's better than a modern similarly specified high end Blu-Ray player.

Or even low end if the DAC is done by the unit at the downstream end of the HDMI cable (e.g. AV amp or TV).