HDMI Surround Sound?

Question

Philips - 1000W 5.1-Ch. Home Theater System/Upconvert DVD/CD

Model: HTS3555/37

Philips - 32" 720p Flat-Panel LCD HDTV

Model: 32PFL5332D/37

I received both of these for Christmas and am having trouble getting the television to have sound through the surround sound system. I purchased the HDMI cable and have it hooked up to the tv and the surround sound system. The sound does not work for the tv. What am I doing wrong?? Do I also need to do something with the digital audio output on the tv?? I do not use a cable box or a receiver if that matters.

Answer 1

In order to have surround sound happening with your system the program source needs to have surround sound audio enabled. (ie. the dvd source or the tv programming)

The advantage of HDMI other than reducing cable clutter is HDMI is currently the only connection format that can carry next generation surround sound formats digitally, including DSD (Direct Stream Digital) used in SACD players, DVD-Audio, Multi-channel uncompressed PCM (used by Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD players), as well as Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio.

Since your HTS system has this it just must be the programming and set-up. Check the signal flow and you will be happy with the results.

Good Luck

Answer 2

If you're playing a DVD, the sound should be coming out of the home theater's speakers - not your TV's speakers.  I don't know if there is a way to get the DVD player to send the sound to the TV since it already has a built-in surround sound decoder and speakers to use.

Answer 3

You need a digital cable box with HDMI and Optical Output or Digital Coax output.

The HDMI when connected to the HDTV will give you digital surround sound but only if the source of the sound has Dolby Digital like from the digital cable box and your cable company has to offer these features otherwise it's a dead deal.

cable box ---- hdmi---- hdtv with dolby digital label) some sets have vitural sound it's not the same thing

cable box ---- hdmi --- hdtv

digital optical cable to:  pioneeer DST dolby digital surround sound I get from HD channel that uses Dolby Digital 5.1 sound will be heard from my 600 watts 5.1 surround.

That's the only way it's going to work, unless you have system that can take HDMI inputs, like from a cable box and output back to the HDTV. That way you would get true digital audio and video from using your multi-media surround system. These units cost more but have 4 HDMI on the rear panel.

With what you got there you can upconvert 1080i to your HDTV using HDMI you'll need some sort of HDMI switch to split the HDMI signal if you only have 1 HDMI input on your HDTV.