Hey all, your replies are much appreciated!
I kind of assumed I was in a "go buy a good ARC capable receiver" situation. I think a new ARC receiver will do the job I want to do. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something so obvious that everyone else knew and I didn't.
I'm just...
I can't believe with all the high-quality legacy receivers out there that nobody makes a device that can "extract" audio from an ARC port on a TV and pass the audio on to the receiver. I've been searching but HDMI audio extractors all want to convert to some other medium: optical, analog, etc. I...