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Leemix

Audioholic General
Its usually easy to turn off ARC in the TV and/or the AVR so its no problem using ARC capable HDMI inputs and outputs.
 
Pogre

Pogre

Audioholic Slumlord
Correct. Just turn it off.

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I got a little confused with which thread I was posting in. Oops, lol. There's another one with a different op who is having all kinds of problems figuring out how to turn it off.
 
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snakeeyes

Audioholic Ninja
I got a little confused with which thread I was posting in. Oops, lol. There's another one with a different op who is having all kinds of problems figuring out how to turn it off.
Do you use ARC? I know some guys just use their programmable remotes with Macros.

We see a bunch of these ARC questions on Denon and Marantz yet I know Peng has no issues on his Denon using ARC. On my Yamahas I use ARC and it seems to work good.
 
Pogre

Pogre

Audioholic Slumlord
Do you use ARC? I know some guys just use their programmable remotes with Macros.

We see a bunch of these ARC questions on Denon and Marantz yet I know Peng has no issues on his Denon using ARC. On my Yamahas I use ARC and it seems to work good.
No, I don't use it. Don't need to. Like I said, there's another thread that's made it to 5 pages and 3/4 of it is all about turning ARC off. The op still hasn't gotten it to work right, lol.
 
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snakeeyes

Audioholic Ninja
No, I don't use it. Don't need to. Like I said, there's another thread that's made it to 5 pages and 3/4 of it is all about turning ARC off. The op still hasn't gotten it to work right, lol.
On my Yamaha 2060 you have to go into a special menu to select 4K hdmi mode for the hdmi port for 4K (defaults at 2K) and another menu to turn on arc and hdmi control. Then at that point it will flicker until you use a certified cable for hdmi 2.0 on all connections. Sony UHD Blu-ray and Apple 4K TV and Samsung 4K TV play nice for me but they all support HDMI 2.0a spec so nothing complicated.
 
Hi-Fi-Guy

Hi-Fi-Guy

Audioholic
One quick for you guys:

I connected avr and tv via HDMI/ARC. When I plug my hdd to tv and play a movie I don't have sound. I went to tv settings and change from tv speakers to "optical/hdmi arc" nad still no sound coming back to avr.

I thought I wouldn't meed a toslink from tv to avr, but I guess that would solve this problem??
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
One quick for you guys:

I connected avr and tv via HDMI/ARC. When I plug my hdd to tv and play a movie I don't have sound. I went to tv settings and change from tv speakers to "optical/hdmi arc" nad still no sound coming back to avr.

I thought I wouldn't meed a toslink from tv to avr, but I guess that would solve this problem??

Why do you connect the hdd to the tv? Did you enable ARC settings in the tv & avr?
 
Hi-Fi-Guy

Hi-Fi-Guy

Audioholic
Why do you connect the hdd to the tv? Did you enable ARC settings in the tv & avr?
That is how I watch my content. TV has better processing. It seems like it somehow bypasses the avr. In this case hdd is not an input to the avr but ks directly plugged to the tv and than sound doesn't go through the arc.
I have a setting to use tv speaker or hdmi arc/optical out. It just doesn't work when I set this.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
That is how I watch my content. TV has better processing. It seems like it somehow bypasses the avr. In this case hdd is not an input to the avr but ks directly plugged to the tv and than sound doesn't go through the arc.
I have a setting to use tv speaker or hdmi arc/optical out. It just doesn't work when I set this.
AVRs' video processing can be bypassed, I always just pass it thru and let my display handle it. How is your hdd connected to your tv? You sure audio is enabled properly there? Did you check your tv and avr manuals for ARC settings to use?
 
Hi-Fi-Guy

Hi-Fi-Guy

Audioholic
I went through the manuals, there are just few simple settings, nothing special. In the TV I get to choose which output to use. In the AVR i can choose between the inputs and set them.

Bit when I plug HDD directly to TV it is not input from AVR, it doesn't have anything to do with HDMIARC coming from an AVR.

To me it seems that it would be solved via toslink. TV can't send sound from its input (HDD) to the AVR via HDMI/ARC it's just the way it works for me, I mean doesn't work :confused:
 
Hi-Fi-Guy

Hi-Fi-Guy

Audioholic
It seems I will have to do the optical out from TV to AVR. This should solve the problem for a TV inputs. I'm not sure how it goes then, if all inputs from the AVR to TV travel back to AVR via HDMI or that optical cable?
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
I went through the manuals, there are just few simple settings, nothing special. In the TV I get to choose which output to use. In the AVR i can choose between the inputs and set them.

Bit when I plug HDD directly to TV it is not input from AVR, it doesn't have anything to do with HDMIARC coming from an AVR.

To me it seems that it would be solved via toslink. TV can't send sound from its input (HDD) to the AVR via HDMI/ARC it's just the way it works for me, I mean doesn't work :confused:
What HDD and how are you connecting it? What format is the content on the hdd? What tv and avr? TV should still be able to send tv-based audio to the avr via ARC (unless yours is just limited to onboard apps or something). I'd think if it could not pass it out by ARC it can't by optical either.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
It seems I will have to do the optical out from TV to AVR. This should solve the problem for a TV inputs. I'm not sure how it goes then, if all inputs from the AVR to TV travel back to AVR via HDMI or that optical cable?
Optical would be one way from tv to avr. HDMI ARC can be two-way (video from avr to tv and audio both ways).
 
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Gmoney

Audioholic Ninja
It seems I will have to do the optical out from TV to AVR. This should solve the problem for a TV inputs. I'm not sure how it goes then, if all inputs from the AVR to TV travel back to AVR via HDMI or that optical cable?
Umm, You meant out right? cause the optical out on the back of you tv is an output signal that goes to your AVR. That’s mostly used with just an over the air Antenna it’s used to get audio only 5.1 DTS from your AVR. HDMI Monitor out video/audio goes to the HDMI input on your tv that says HDMI input with the ARC, most HDTV only has one of those inputs. All other HDMI outputs from any Source, aka 4K blu-ray player or PS4 or what ever source you have all go to your AVR inputs.
 
Hi-Fi-Guy

Hi-Fi-Guy

Audioholic
I'll fetch a cable and try.
TV LG 47LA660S, Denon avr-x2000. I mean it cannot be more simple.
Regular hdd wit regular video, all is playable by tv throughout its speakers. It just wont send audio to the avr cause AVR is not the TVs output and HDMI is not TVs output. All sources coming to the TV from AVR go back through the ARC. Plugged HDD has nothing to do with the AVR or HDMI so it won't send audio except via optical digital audio out. At least it sounds logical to me :D

I'll let you know today.
 
Hi-Fi-Guy

Hi-Fi-Guy

Audioholic
Problem solved.
I connected optical digital audio output from tv to avr. Then a when to Denons input assign and assigned TV audio to OPT1.
Now when i play from my hdd TV sends audio to avr.
I know that it might be strange for you that I play majority of my media from external hdd connected to the tv, but in my country we all download media from internet, torrents are not illegal. If it's free, you won't buy a dedicated player. So this is the main way we all watch Blu-ray's.

Almost nobody owns bluray players.

Thanks for help :)
 
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Gmoney

Audioholic Ninja
Problem solved.
I connected optical digital audio output from tv to avr. Then a when to Denons input assign and assigned TV audio to OPT1.
Now when i play from my hdd TV sends audio to avr.
I know that it might be strange for you that I play majority of my media from external hdd connected to the tv, but in my country we all download media from internet, torrents are not illegal. If it's free, you won't buy a dedicated player. So this is the main way we all watch Blu-ray's.

Almost nobody owns bluray players.

Thanks for help :)
Your don’t live in the United States of America? in Our Country we don’t use 3rd World technology:cool:
 
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Hi-Fi-Guy

Hi-Fi-Guy

Audioholic
I'm in southeastern Europe, moving to the west soon.

Here we download the full HD or what suits us best, get it to the usb flash, stick it to the TV or play from computer via HDMI :) no additional equipment needed LOL

But if you got the opportunity to have it all for free and legally, like us, I bet you would use it to ;) we pay nothing to enjoy media, except internet bill.

I'll come to your level soon :cool:
 
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Gmoney

Audioholic Ninja
I'm in southeastern Europe, moving to the west soon.

Here we download the full HD or what suits us best, get it to the usb flash, stick it to the TV or play from computer via HDMI :) no additional equipment needed LOL

But if you got the opportunity to have it all for free and legally, like us, I bet you would use it to ;) we pay nothing to enjoy media, except internet bill.

I'll come to your level soon :cool:
oh we get it fee to we use the new and friendly Jail Break app :cool::p Do have any Gray Poupon mustard?:p;)
 
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