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Post 1 made on Saturday October 2, 2004 at 20:45
fireball05
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This question has probably been answered before and I'm sure it will show my ignorance, but can anyone tell me how to wire my system up so that the sound is played through the TVs speakers and the receiver's speakers?

I have a very simple setup - Sony TV and DVD player and receiver. It is a pain to go through the Sony TV setup menu to turn the speakers on and off. I want to be able to hear sound through the TV speakers at all times, and just be able to mute them or turn them down when I want to hear everything through the main receiver speakers.

Thanks for any help!
Post 2 made on Saturday October 2, 2004 at 21:53
J. Bond
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OK.
Connect a component Video wire from your DVD Player component video output to the TV component Video input.
Connect an audio (L/R) wire from the DVD Player output to the TV (L/R) audio input.
That will allow you to watch your DVD movies getting sound directly from the TV speakers.

Now, Connect an audio wire (L/R) from the TV Audio output to an Audio input of the receiver so that you'll be routing the sound from your TV thru the receiver utilizing the speakers attached to it, but you have to turn the TV volume control down all the way. When you want to use the TV speakers, shut the receiver off.

J. Bond
Post 3 made on Saturday October 2, 2004 at 22:10
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i believe (i could be wrong, but i dont think so) that the audio outputs of sony t.v. s are set to variable whenever the t.v. s speakers are on, so if you hook it up the way J. Bond suggests whenever you turn down the t.v. volume or mute the t.v. the amplifiers volume will also be decreased or muted. if you have a digital reciever you could hook up the digital out from the dvd player to the receiver and the analog out put from the dvd player to the t.v. this will also give you much better sound from the receiver. if you do not have digital connections on your receiver you may need to resort to y adaptors and split the analog audio from the dvd player to the t.v. and receiver seperately.
Post 4 made on Saturday October 2, 2004 at 22:18
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yeah - sony is a rash for this application. They only do variable out when the TV speakers are active. Can you send digital output to the reciever and analog to the TV? This would allow you to have DVD's sound thru the TV when watching a romance or late nite and Audio thru the reciever for action stuff.
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OP | Post 5 made on Saturday October 2, 2004 at 23:09
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Thanks for the quick replies guys.

Let me clarify a few things:

I am only talking about TV sound. I do not need/want the DVD sound to be played through the TV speakers.

Piker is correct in the way the Sony TV audio outputs work. Right now I have the L/R audio outs of the TV connected to the back of the receiver. When I want to listen to sound through the AVR I have to go through the TV menu to turn the TV speakers off. And vice versa when I want to listen to sound through the TVs speakers again.

Note that I can set the audio output to variable (through the TV audio menu) but I believe this is not the right way to do things.

I would like to find a way to avoid this. To have the TV sound always playing through the TVs speakers. When I want to listen to TV sound through the AVR speakers, I would like it to either automatically turn off the TVs speakers or just play overtop the TVs speakers and I could turn the TVs speaker volume down or mute it.

Hopefully that makes things a bit more clear. Perhaps there isn't a way to do this, but I would hope there is since right now it is quite a hassle to flip through the menus all the time. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Post 6 made on Sunday October 3, 2004 at 04:19
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Sorry, I missunderstood you.

Are you using a cable or satellite box to receive your TV programs?

Providing you're using a receiver box with a coax cable connection to your TV, is it possible for you to connect the sound output (L/R) directly to your Audio receiver? so that you can lower the TV volume control to zero when you're using the receiver and shut the receiver off when you're using the TV speakers?.
Advice!

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OP | Post 7 made on Sunday October 3, 2004 at 09:56
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On 10/03/04 08:19 ET, J. Bond said...
Sorry, I missunderstood you.

Are you using a cable or satellite box to receive
your TV programs?

No problem. I am not using a cable or satellite box. Right now I just have basic cable service from Comcast. But that's a whole other story - Comcast doesn't offer the NFL gameday package, but they are they only ones who offer high speed internet (through their cable service), so I haven't decided what to do about that yet.

Someone told me I may be able to achieve what I want by using a VCR as an intermediary. Any ideas on that?
Post 8 made on Sunday October 3, 2004 at 10:14
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You are correct a VCR should do it.
IN/OUT with your coaxial on the VCR - audio(L/R) out of the VCR into your receiver, give a try.

J. Bond
Post 9 made on Thursday October 7, 2004 at 12:04
Ernie Bornn-Gilman
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On 10/03/04 13:56 ET, fireball05 said...
Someone told me I may be able to achieve what
I want by using a VCR as an intermediary. Any
ideas on that?

And that person stole my thunder.

Yup. Hook up the Channel 3 output of the VCR to the TV. When the VCR is on and VCR is chosen, the audio that comes out of the VCR to the A/V receiver will also be present on Channel 3 at the TV.

Two pains here:
VCRs vary; some come on in the VCR mode, some you have to push the TV/VCR button every time.
VCR Tuners do not have "Previous Channel."

For the record, some Sony TVs will do exactly what was suggested in one of the first answers. Some have variable audio out and fixed audio out jacks that are always on. You have to suggest this, then go look to see what your TV will do.
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OP | Post 10 made on Wednesday November 3, 2004 at 23:07
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For the record, some Sony TVs will do exactly
what was suggested in one of the first answers.
Some have variable audio out and fixed audio
out jacks that are always on. You have to suggest
this, then go look to see what your TV will do.

I have a fairly basic 27" trinitron model. It only has one audio out jack in the back, so I am stuck how it is. Wish I would've known this when I bought my TV, but oh well.

I went out and purchased the Sony vl900 remote and programmed macros to switch between watching the TV sound through the receiver and through just the TVs speakers.

Not exactly what i wanted, but the macros made it 1 touch instead of 14 or 15.

This message was edited by fireball05 on 11/03/04 23:16 ET.
Post 11 made on Wednesday November 3, 2004 at 23:37
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The TV set should have a toggle for turning the speakers on the TV set on or off. It's as simple as that
Post 12 made on Thursday November 4, 2004 at 17:39
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I think its kind of funny that everone want and extremely comlicated solution here......

If your NOT using a Satellite box or Cable box, then I would guess that your cable TV is going stright into your TV's RF Input. TV Speakers should be set to ON, and you will have standard TV Speakers with Volume control when your on your Cable TV input.

FOr your DVD and VCR, just run the audio to the Receiver and Video only to the TV. So when your on Video 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,8645 there is no audio going to the tv.... no audio = No sound fromt he TV speakers. Use the receiver remote for volume then.....

Unless I missed something else... That seems to be the easiest solution in this scenario.
OP | Post 13 made on Thursday November 4, 2004 at 23:32
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On 11/04/04 04:37 ET, teknobeam1 said...
The TV set should have a toggle for turning the
speakers on the TV set on or off. It's as simple
as that

You are correct, there is a toggle. Unfortunately on my TV it involves going into the setup menu and pushing a bunch of buttons everytime I want to change between listening through the TV speakers and the AVR and it's speakers.

This is a pain and a hassle. I want the TV speakers to work all the time. When I turn the AV system on, I want to be able to hear TV sound through the AV system as well (and just mute the volume on the TV speakers).

This is only an issue because this is the only TV in my house. I leave the TV on CNN during the day as background noise. But when I want to actually watch the TV, I want the sound to come out through my AVR speaker system.

As others have suggested, it looks like the easiest solution would be to get a VCR and run audio through that. Instead I bought a universal remote and programmed macros to go through the TV menu system. This way telling the TV to play sound through the AVR vs. it's own system is now a 1-touch operation.


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