FarmerBrown
Auditioning
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- Apr 4, 2011
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- Orville Brown
Hi everyone. This is my first post and I want to introduce myself. I'll be 70 years old next October so, as you can imagine, much of this stuff is foreign to me. I live out in the country (I have been farming for the past 8 years) and have gone without a TV for several years now. I'm a retired mechanical engineer and my life-long hobby has been tinkering with electronics, so this stuff is not THAT foreign. I suffered a stroke two years ago and my thought process is all messed up and I have the trembles. You folks would laugh if you could see how long it takes to type these posts. So please speak slowly to me and I may be able to follow your advice.
My son and daughter bought me a wonderful gift a couple of weeks ago and I'm experiencing some difficulty in setting things up. I now have an LG 47LE5400 television, an LG LHB335 Blue-ray Disc Home Theater System and a Direct-TV dish and receiver (it's not HD and it's not a recorder). Whew! I feel like a rich man!
My son installed the TV and set up the Home Theater System (HTS) for me when we first got everything. The Direct-TV guy installed the dish and hooked up the receiver the next day. The TV is wonderful although I have some set-up issues that have to be worked out - like a blurry picture sometimes. But like with new electronics we must live with them for a while to work out the bugs. The disc player works fine with the TV when I have a disc inserted and with the radio functions.
Here's my problem:
I cannot get the HTS to work when I'm watching TV. The only sound I can get is via the TV and not the HTS. Of course during the initial installation we discovered that the components did not come with any HDMI cables so we used some RCA type RGB cable that I had out in the barn. I purchased an HDMI cable yesterday and I still cannot get the HTS to "hear" the TV. I have searched the forums here for the past two hours and did not come up with a solution to my problem. However, I did learn that I may need to use the Direct-TV receiver AUDIO OUT and connect it to my HTS AUDIO IN. I will try this after I complete this post.
All I want to accomplish (at least for now) is to be able to watch the TV with the sound turned off on the TV and all sound coming through the HTS speakers.
Any suggestions? Thanks, Orville Brown.
My son and daughter bought me a wonderful gift a couple of weeks ago and I'm experiencing some difficulty in setting things up. I now have an LG 47LE5400 television, an LG LHB335 Blue-ray Disc Home Theater System and a Direct-TV dish and receiver (it's not HD and it's not a recorder). Whew! I feel like a rich man!
My son installed the TV and set up the Home Theater System (HTS) for me when we first got everything. The Direct-TV guy installed the dish and hooked up the receiver the next day. The TV is wonderful although I have some set-up issues that have to be worked out - like a blurry picture sometimes. But like with new electronics we must live with them for a while to work out the bugs. The disc player works fine with the TV when I have a disc inserted and with the radio functions.
Here's my problem:
I cannot get the HTS to work when I'm watching TV. The only sound I can get is via the TV and not the HTS. Of course during the initial installation we discovered that the components did not come with any HDMI cables so we used some RCA type RGB cable that I had out in the barn. I purchased an HDMI cable yesterday and I still cannot get the HTS to "hear" the TV. I have searched the forums here for the past two hours and did not come up with a solution to my problem. However, I did learn that I may need to use the Direct-TV receiver AUDIO OUT and connect it to my HTS AUDIO IN. I will try this after I complete this post.
All I want to accomplish (at least for now) is to be able to watch the TV with the sound turned off on the TV and all sound coming through the HTS speakers.
Any suggestions? Thanks, Orville Brown.