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ARC stands for Audio Return Channel. It allows you to send the video signal to your TV and "return" the audio signal back to your AV Receiver or sound-bar. Typically you'd be sending the audio signal back via another cable (HDMI, RCA or Optical). "The HDMI eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel)...

Thanks you all for your quick and detailed feedback. I exhausted all my testing options and tried every possible audio option from the TV - still no sound. I just pulled the trigger on a new receiver - the Yamaha TRS-700. It appears to be the same unit as their RX-V6A but the TRS-700 is...

Does the newer HDMI E-ARC work better than the HDMI ARC?

Thanks for your feed. I think the problem is that the audio signal that I'm streaming from the TV (Netflix, Prime & YouTube TV) are not AC-3 signals and therefore the processor isn't recognizing it. When we had this set-up to our old TV we had Audio & Video signals going to the AVR in addition...

I'm trying to connect my new TCL 8-Series TV to my old Yamaha RS-V2090 receiver with DDP-1 AC-3 Processor. The Yamaha home theater system doesn't have HDMI inputs, just an optical input on the DDP-1 unit. When I connect the Optical output from the TV to the Optical input on the DDP-1 I don't get...