Need help w HDMI

[wade10987]

i have a Yamaha HTR 5930 and I love it but I recently bought a new TV. I used to have the RCA cables from a DVD player, with yellow going into the TV and the red and white going to the receiver. That's very simple to me. Now I have a new TV, a Vizio E500AR and a LG blu ray player. Since the new cables are HDMI, I don't see how I could split the video and audio signals like before. I tried buying an optical cable but I don't know if it is plugged in right.

I have looked online and nothing quite makes sense.

Could somebody please walk me through it?
movies just aren't the same these days...

 

[EthicalEar]

Looks like your Yamaha has inputs for 2 Optical (Digital Optical Cable) or Coaxial cables (orange looks like rca jack). Using either of these from your TV would greatly improve your sound. I would suggest 1 optical out from your LG and 1 optical out from your TV both go into your Yamaha. As far as your video goes, Send the HDMI from blu ray player right to your tv. Use the settings function on Blu ray to control that your audio goes to your receiver.

 

[lovinthehd]

Might be time for a new avr to take advantage of the higher quality codecs on the bluray. Do you need audio from the tv or just the bluray player? Which bluray player?

 

[wade10987]

Looks like your Yamaha has inputs for 2 Optical (Digital Optical Cable) or Coaxial cables (orange looks like rca jack). Using either of these from your TV would greatly improve your sound. I would suggest 1 optical out from your LG and 1 optical out from your TV both go into your Yamaha. As far as your video goes, Send the HDMI from blu ray player right to your tv. Use the settings function on Blu ray to control that your audio goes to your receiver.

The blu ray player is a LG BP350N. I just checked and it only has HDMI out...

 

[wade10987]

Might be time for a new avr to take advantage of the higher quality codecs on the bluray. Do you need audio from the tv or just the bluray player? Which bluray player?

Its the LG BP350N blu ray player. I would be satisfied with just surround sound for movies, I don't really care about surround sound for regular TV/cable.

 

[lovinthehd]

Sounds like you can only output to the tv and then use a connection (optical/digital coax, whatever's available) back to your avr. Check your tv manual for what it can pass back out via its available audio output, they aren't all the same (but newer ones tend to be more capable than older ones, many older ones were limited to 2.0 output).

 

[EthicalEar]

Since your blu ray player is only HDMI out, you may want to try a splitter. Sorry I don't know how to copy images and stuff to add here but here is a link to amazon for it. HDMI splits to #1another HDMI which goes to your TV for video, #2 a digital optical cable - goes to your receiver. Its about 24.00 Cheep fix but should work. I do agree you may want to consider upgrading your receiver.
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[EthicalEar]

You will also need an additional HDMI cable to go out from the splitter to your TV and a digital optical cable to go out from the splitter to your receiver. Might be another 20-30 dollars depending on what brands you buy.

 

[wade10987]

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it. I will look into it more in the next few days...then get back to you with my progress. thanks

 

[highfigh]

Its the LG BP350N blu ray player. I would be satisfied with just surround sound for movies, I don't really care about surround sound for regular TV/cable.

If you're using the composite video output from the DVD player, it's apparent that you don't care about video quality, either. Aside from getting the signal from a modulated Ch 3/4 output, that's the worst possible way to watch a video.

 

[wade10987]

You will also need an additional HDMI cable to go out from the splitter to your TV and a digital optical cable to go out from the splitter to your receiver. Might be another 20-30 dollars depending on what brands you buy.

Thank You so much, I bought the splitter/extractor on Amazon and it got here last night. I am starting the new year with surround sound and it is thanks to your advice... hell yea. I watched 1917, Skyfall, and some other stuff and it was great. Thanks Again