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Blu-Ray player not player via Receiver HDMI

post #1 of 2
12/1/09 at 11:57am
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Hi,

I bought an LG HB954SA Blu-Ray player. It is already a 5.1 system but I purely want to use it only as a blu-ray \ ipod\ usb player thru my Sony STR-KM5000 6.2ch receiver.

I have it connected only via HDMI cable from the player to the receiver. When I connect it via the DVD port on the receiver nothing happens, I get good picture, but no sound. If I connect it via the BD port and switch to that selector I get an "UNLOCK" message and nothing more happens.

I have read as much as I can find and have read that an external coax or digital cable needs to be run from players to the receivers but on this particular LG player I only have HDMI out, Component out (Red\Green\Blue ports) those are the ounly OUT ports that the player has, the rest are Digital Audio in (coax and optical) and just the normal audio in. then it has all the speaker jacks for the 5.1 setup.

Can anyone suggest what I should do here?. My TV is a Sony 50" which only has DVI, it's more a monitor with no speakers etc and doesn't have any sound activated on it. from the receiver to TV I am using HDMI to DVI but doubt this has anything to do with it not playing from the player to the receiver.

Please advise....need to know if I must rather return this blu-ray player and get another. Liked this one as it has a built in Ipod dock and usb which I thought would be quite handy.

Please help!!!!!
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post #2 of 2
12/2/09 at 7:01am
Hi Cliff,

You aren't going to get the two HTiB systems to work together in the way that you want (digital audio out of one into the other).

Unfortunately, I can't get much information about either of the systems you describe online, so it's a little tough to say for sure which one is the better one to keep.

Can you tell me a bit more about what else you have hooked up to the sytem?  Is there a compelling reason to keep the Sony system at all?

Basically, a standalone Blu-Ray player will give you video and audio outputs that can be connected to a surround sound system, but exactly how those connections should be made depends on a number of factors: does your Sony surround system decode lossless audio, or are there analog audio inputs on the Sony surround system?  What about HDMI video inputs?  If the answer to both of these questions is "no" then you're probably better off just using the LG system.

If the Sony system does have HDMI video and multichannel analog inputs (or it decodes the lossless audio formats of Blu-Ray - DolbyHD/DTS-MA), then you can get a standalone Blu-Ray player whose outputs match the inputs on your Sony and you're good to go.
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