Zone 2 problem Onkyo HT-RC180

[bigbassdave]

Strange things afoot with my zone 2 audio. I have a couple outdoor speakers wired to my zone two. In my main room I'm running 5.1. I have 4 devices running through my receiver 3 of which using hdmi. A dish network receiver, hd DVD player, blu ray player, and a Nintendo wii. I can play my dish receiver (hdmi) and my wii (RCA) through zone two without issue however, I can no longer get any audio out of zone 2 from my hd DVD or blu ray but both work flawlessly in the main room. What really bugs me about this is I stream pandora from the blu ray and that's the main thing I want to listen to outside. Any ideas?

 

[Rickster71]

Me thinks you have to have an analog signal to a zone-2 input.

 

[bigbassdave]

Thanks but the dish receiver plays through zone 2 and its digital. Also I used to be able to play all sources through with zone until one day the blu ray and hd DVD stopped working outside.

 

[Adam]

Odd. The owner's manual specifically states in more than one place that only analog inputs can be played through Zone 2 and 3.

Still looking...

 

[bigbassdave]

Okay gentlemen you were absolutely right. I have my dish receiver connected to the Onkyo via hdmi AND analog which explains it. Reconnected a couple rca's from the blu ray to the receiver and now I'm back in business. Thanks

 

[Adam]

Cool - glad it's working again (and that I'm not crazy )!

 

[Rickster71]

I tried to download the manual earlier, it got to a page or two and it just sat there.