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An issue with broadcast TV over 5.1 system?

I recently bought a Onkyo HT-RC260 and paired it with the Infinity TSS-500. My issue is that TV broadcasts from my HD-DVR seem to have pretty bad sound when listening in actual dolby or dolby digital. The center channel speaker sounds somewhat hollow and the surround is sub par. This made me think that I made a bad decision with the speakers, but for everything else such as games, and movies it all sounds great. So is this just a issue with the transfer or am I missing something as far as a setting on the cable box? Everything is hooked up HDMI to the receiver and HDMI out to TV.

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  • TV guy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    The Onkyo is a very good receiver. Th eproblem may be with the set-top box.

    Make sure the set-top actually sends DD over HDMI to the receiver.

    Try also to send DD to the receiver using coax.

    Note also that not all programs are transmitted in 5.1.

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