Blue Ray and DVD & WD Player Audio Work ONLY with TV On (1 Viewer)

JohnRice said:

What Sam is saying is, hdmi has content management which requires certain things to be happening in order to work. For your audio only inputs when playing music with the TV off, use a digital audio output from the player (optical or coax) to the receiver and set up inputs on the receiver for when you are listening to music. Then you're golden.

Also, after reading your post again, it sounds like maybe you are connecting the players and cable box to the tv, then audio from the tv back to the receiver. That's not the correct way to do things. For one, you will never get any surround sound other than dolby pro. Everything goes to the receiver, then an hdmi to the TV. At least, that sounds like what you are doing.

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