On Surround Sound speakers, does the sound come ONLY from the speakers, or the TV too?

Surround sound speakers only.

The answer is that it varies. Generally your tv sound is off. This is primarily due to the fact that you might hear an echo or offset between your speaker system audio and the television audio. I have seen some newer Sony tvs offer center channel capability with a Sony receiver. I would imagine that this would work with other brands as well but more often than not, as stated before, there is an audio offset.

Personally I own a panasonic tv that doesn't even have built in speakers and a projector that obviously doesn't have speakers either. Adding tv volume to the mix just seems as though it would really add complexity to your control scheme as well. Do I turn up the tv volume and then the surround volume until they are even each time I want it louder or more quiet?

Your best bet is just to leave your tv sound off. Also don't look to hear a lot of sound from your rear speakers. They are primarily for sound effects like people walking into the room from what would be perceived to be behind you, airplanes flying by, birds chirping, the chainsaw killer running up behind his victim, etc. Not so much the dialogue between two characters on the screen.

Hope this helps.

RL

Your receiver must show a display that you have chosen to play Dolby surround or TV surround. You are on stereo mode. You should select surround. I do not know the type of receiver you have but suffice to say, your receiver is the first stop for troubleshooting. There is nothing wrong with your TV, speakers or Receiver. It is you, who should tell the receiver to play all speakers. How? Manual is your first stop. This is why when you set up the speaker for your room using the small mic, it worked well but you have to choose the correct setting on the receiver to play the sound source on all the speakers. If you are using Pioneer for receiver, yes it is a confusing manual. But it is a good receiver. It does some wonderful things. Difficult to setup and understand but once done properly it gives you immense pleasure.

When you get Surround Sound speaker system, the system should take over and in affect, turns off your TV sound.

Let's say you get a receiver which is hooked up to your CD/Dvd player, you'd send Picture to your TV, and then send sound to your receiver... in which case, your TV won't produce sound. Your receiver will output sound to the speakers that are connected to it.

When you watch cable TV - the sound will come from your TV. If you want sound to come from your receiver... all you have to do is just send the sound from your TV to your receiver [most new TVs have audio output - regular RCA style cable out: Left and Right Channel... some TVs even have Toslink-optical output]. Then after doing this, your TV should not produce sound anymore.

Good Luck!

You will need to turn off or lower the volume on the TV if you have a surround sound system. Some amps block the sound from going to the TV but it depends how you have the system wired.

depends on what connection you use if everything is connected to the tv then out to your surround system it will come from both if you connect everything direct to your surround system then no since theres no audio signal being sent to the tv

The tv still has sound