Ok- I'll ask this way.

Does anyone get the audio from unscrambled HD channels (Comcast - no cable box) to pass through the digital audio output on the back of your monitor?


All the audio on the normal channels gets out to my receiver, but I can only hear the HD channel audio through the onboard TV speakers. Nothing's going to the audio output. Any ideas??

Thanks


BTW - Would the Comcast cable box have RCA audio outs? Maybe that would work - although I already spent $63 on a Gefen digital-to-analog audio converter. My LCD only has one digital audio output.

Ok- I'll ask this way.

Does anyone get the audio from unscrambled HD channels (Comcast - no cable box) to pass through the digital audio output on the back of your monitor?It depends on signal what the HDTV is displaying. If the signal is from the internal tuner, I don't know of an HDTV that doesn't output digital audio on either optical or coax. If the set is displaying an HDMI source, then most HDTV's do not output digital audio.

BTW - Would the Comcast cable box have RCA audio outs?Sure, but it's not digital.

Nothing's going to the audio output.

Are you 100% positive?
Is there some kind of configuration/setup for the TV's digital audio output?
Is the AV receiver set to "auto" decode the digital audio input?
The HD channels should have DD 5.1 audio, whereas the analog (what you seem to call "normal", or do you mean digital SD?) channels are just MTS stereo.

What's available on the analog audio outputs of the TV (i.e. do you get the same symptoms)?

I'm pretty positive.

There's nothing in the advanced audio menu about the digital audio out.

As far as the receiver goes, it's getting signal from the RCA outputs of the Gefen audio converter I mentioned, so it's not decoding anything.

The TV (Panasonic Viera TC-L32C12) only has one digital optical audio output - there are no RCA (analog) outs. That's why I had to get the converter. The digital SD channels all get to the receiver.

Maybe the Gefen converter can't handle 5.1??

Update: I checked the Gefen site and found this..."Note:This device accepts 2-channel digital audio only. Dolby 5.1 and other multichannel formats are not compatible."

Great...maybe I can return it!

> That's why I had to get the converter.

So you have some kind of ancient AV receiver that does not have a digital input or cannot decode 5.1??

Or is it a stereo audio receiver?
If you're using a Fisher 500c (or similar), then I would understand.