My cable box would be connected to this receiver via HDMI. If I wanted to just use the speakers on my TV on occasion, would this still be possible?
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Everything we've had hooked up through it has worked just fine when it hasn't been turned off. Just no surround sound.
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Yes, but I find that you must be sure that the receiver is set to: CBL/SAT, if that is the HDMI port you are running your cable box. I use the receiver for internet radio and must remember to make the change before I turn off the amp or I will need to turn on the amp and make the change if I want to watch TV with the TV speakers. Hope this helps!
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I don't use both outputs from the device, so I'm not sure how they work exactly, but here's my understanding: If you have your cable box hooked (inputted) to say source 1, both outputs from the device will carry that audio signal to two different devices. I'm not sure of the utility of that exactly, but I guess if you had two different TVs or audio receivers and you wanted to hear the sound from the cable box on each, you could. I have my Xbox, PS3, Cable, and DVD player hooked into inputs 1-4, and one output to the surround sound system. Hope that helps!
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I have mine hooked to a surround sound system through both a cable box & my receiver. It's fine.
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If I recall correctly, HDMI1 is for Blue-Ray; so I used HDMI for my HD from cable box into receiver. Use the pass-thru out from receiver to TV. That way, you can still watch TV with receiver off.
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I added an optical audio return, which allows all digital sound transmission without distortion. My receiver does not have HDMI RAC capability. The only complication is that you need to turn the tv sound totally off, to avoid an echo effect. It may be possible to sync the two sound sources (home theater and tv speakers) but I have not tried, since the tv speakers are crap compared to my system.
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This will connect with only hdmi devices. However it acts as an input on your tv. So instead of using your tv you use this to change inputs. So if your using the receiver as a surround sound no it won't. I run an optical cable from my tv to my receiver so I can have surround on all devices. I use this for all my other stuff and it works great. So if your wanting to plug it into the switch it'll work but only for that device on that input.
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Yes you have 2 options. If your TV got a audio output then use that to connect this speakers. If your TV don't have audio output then you need use their AV option (You cannot HDMI)
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You need a receiver or amplifier. Use the HDMI or Digital out or Optical out from TV to a receiver/amp and then hook up the speakers to the amp. Directly from TV, it won't work.
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You need to hook an optical cable from the receiver to the TV. Then your Wii, Cable box, or any audio that runs through the TV will also run through the receiver. The HDMI is input only, not output for audio. Good Luck.
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I have a new HDTV and it only has the optical output. We went from the cable box to the TV with HDMI, but I also want to connect to a home theater system. My receiver is an older one and does not have HDMI or optical. Can I just use the left- right audio outputs that are on the back of the cable box for the audio receiver as well as using the HDMI for the television??? Sal
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Only if your cable box has an optical Audi output. My Panasonic tv I believe has one, so I Ron the satellite receiver to the tv then the tv to the soundbar, or possibly the satellite out to the soundbar. It's been too long that I can't remember to be honest.
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Yes you can. I am currently using one for my receiver, cable box and blue ray. Works great
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That's probably not going to work since there is only one output source for the speakers - and those are for the speaker wires. the coax, component video, and optical cable are all inputs, only one hdmi output to connnect to your tv, the rest of the hdmi are all input from your other devices as well. do some search you may find a coax output for speakers, but it may be difficult because a lot of newer receivers are either hdmi, optical, component video and even bluetooth.
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Dear Mary O.. One more thing I forgot to mention, if your cable box is connected via an HDMI cable make sure you pick HDMI for an input, not CABLE as these are two different connectors..
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I have 3 components connected to my receiver - An Amazon TV, a Blu-Ray disk player and the Directv receiver - all using HDMI cables. You do need to have the receiver on, but how else would you get that beautiful sound! If your DirecTV receiver doesn't have an HDMI output, you can connect the DirecTV box to the composite video inputs on the front of the receiver and select the V-Aux input on the remote control. You may be able to connect it to one of the composite video inputs on the back, but I didn't try that. I hope that helps.TopCatOnyx
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Um, yeah that's a good question. I'm not saying u can't do it bit Not aware of a way to make the device work w/o going through my surround sound either. Honestly, even though I bought the device, sadly I came across the same thing and ended up not using it. However, you might be able to run optical out of th cable box and try that way. I'm really sorry I'm not much help but understand the frustrations
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The only way to connect this soundbar to anything is with the optical cable, so if your receiver has an optical connection, then yes. Otherwise, no.