Digital cable surround sound.?
I just bought a 5.1 surround sound home theater system but I'm having trouble getting it to work. I have digital cable connected from the set top box to my samsung HDTV using an hdmi cable. I then ran an optical audio cable from the optical out on the tv to the optical in on the theater system but I am getting no sound from the system. I can get tv sound if I turn up the tv speakers but the sound is not going from the tv to the theater system. I thought the system or cables were defective but then I swithed the tv source to my wii which is connected to the tv using component cables and the sound came through the theater system just fine (through the optical cable). Is there a setting I need to adjust on my cable box or something? Maybe run the optical cable from my cable box to the theater system? I'd rather not do that latter since I may run out of optical inputs on the theater system in the future.
Digital cable surround sound.?concert ticketsI see you have solved the first part of your question, the optical cable should run from the cable box to the HT receiver. This should work fine.
The second question, what is the point of the optical out? Your TV has the ability to receive HDTV over the air, i.e. with no cable/sattelite box. If that were the case you would be getting sound on your TV, but it only has 2 speakers. The optical out (a fairly new feature on TV's these days) allows you to export the beautiful digital sound from your TV reception to your HT receiver and hear it in all speakes. This will only work if you are tuning to TV stations with your TV's built in tuner.
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