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Interesting HDMI issue with Onkyo receiver?
We have an Onkyo receiver that poses an interesting problem.... it has 2 HDMI pass throughs ( older model), but ONLY passes through the video and NOT the audio. That was fine for a few years, since it does have 2 fiber optic and 1 digital coax input. HOWEVER, we want to move the receiver to the bedroom. We have a blu ray in the bedroom that ONLY has HDMI out.
How can we run the blu ray through the receiver for 5.1 sound, if the receiver only passes through video , and the blu ray only has HDMI out? Is there a doggle or converter that would seperate the audio from the hdmi, so we can connect to the receiver with fiber optic or digital coax? We want to use the receiver , since the TV speakers are poor and not surround sound.
Mr no one
The receiver has two HDMI ins and 1 HDMI out , however, the HDMI out only allows video to be played... ie the pass through does not carry the audio... so, if I plug my HD dvr into one HDMI pass through , and I plug my blue ray through the other pass through.... the HDMI out to the TV will ONLY give me picture for those 2 and no sound. That is fine if the blue ray has another source of audio out, but our blue ray in the bedroom only has HDMI out, and no other sources for audio.
Its the onkyo htr 550 receiver
4 Answers
- ?Lv 48 years agoFavorite Answer
My older Onkyo receiver has the exact same setup. The HDMI is pass through only, the receiver can not capture audio off of HDMI. That doesn't mean your receiver is junk though you just need to be more creative...
I bought one of these HDMI switches from mono price. It has 4 HDMI inputs, and 1 output. Whatever HDMI source is selected for output the audio is also output via optical SPDIF connector. So you connect the optical connector from the switch to the reciever and use the optical audio in connector on the receiver.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id...
Monoprice also has other similar products that would work, but that is the one that I used with great luck.
For those of you that are commenting and not understanding the HDMI Pass Through on older Okyo receivers is essentially just and HDMI switch that is controlled by the source selection buttons on the Onkyo. The Onkyo receiver can not capture and acquire the audio signal from the HDMI bus. You have to have separate optical/coaxial SPDIF audio connections.
- agb90spruceLv 78 years ago
I don't see the problem. You presumably connect the Blu-ray player to the Onkyo so you can use it to power the surround speakers. You then only need the video out to feed that to the TV. That is what you say it does. Where is the problem? Note that many people would consider the way the Onkyo handles HDMI far preferable to a passthrough mode that simply uses the receiver as a switch by passing both audio and video though.
You could feed the Blu-ray player to the TV via HDMI then feed the audio back to the Onkyo via optical, but that complicates switching and limits audio options to Dolby 5.1 or DTS 5.1 (vs HD formats available from most Blu-ray disks).
- Mr.No0nELv 78 years ago
So your saying that this setup does not work?
- 1st hdmi cable to hdmi out on devices to hdmi in on receiver for audio, then 2nd hdmi cable to hdmi out on receiver to hdmi in on tv for video.
If you want a converter, I recommend a dvi-d + s/pdif optical/coaxial to hdmi converter.
(It would work for you and for old computers).
