Help! Feel so stupid ...

orthodoc · 07-10-2012, 06:55 PM

I've hooked up everything in my new place - TV, HD box, DVD player, cable modem/wireless router, computers, set up the wireless network - and everything works EXCEPT that I have no audio with the DVD player. Video, subtitles, everything is great, except ... no sound. There IS audio with the TV alone. I've changed out the HDMI cable. No dice. Does anyone have a suggestion?

This is so embarrassing.

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BigV · 07-10-2012, 07:05 PM

Pls speak up. I can't hear a thing you're saying.

ZenGum · 07-11-2012, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

Pls speak up. I can't hear a thing you're saying.

Did you glue your finger in your ear again?

limey · 07-11-2012, 01:02 AM

Are there multiple remote controls? Have you located them all and used them all to turn up the sound?

Undertoad · 07-11-2012, 08:20 AM

Is it just HDMI from DVD to TV?

orthodoc · 07-11-2012, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Is it just HDMI from DVD to TV?

Yes, straight HDMI from DVD to TV. I bought a new one in case the first one was defective, but still no sound. There's only one port for HDMI on each component; I can't see how I could screw it up.

glatt · 07-11-2012, 12:44 PM

that's weird.

Have you played around with the menus for both the TV and DVD to see what sort of sound you have selected?

footfootfoot · 07-11-2012, 08:45 AM

"This is the quietest room in the house. No one can hear us in here."
"What?"

wolf · 07-11-2012, 12:49 PM

Did you have or do you now have a home theater surround sound thingy? (what glatt said, only phrased so that it appears to be a different suggestion, so that I have something to contribute here).

orthodoc · 07-11-2012, 12:56 PM

I'll check the DVD menu when I get home. The TV has sound when cable is used. I don't have any other speakers hooked up, though - I'm just using the TV's speakers.

Gravdigr · 07-11-2012, 05:11 PM

Are you switching the TV to the appropriate (HDMI) input, i.e., are you on the right 'channel'?

You might count the 'pins' on the cable, and compare that to the number of 'holes' on the TV...or vice versa. They should be equal, btw.

orthodoc · 07-11-2012, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Are you switching the TV to the appropriate (HDMI) input, i.e., are you on the right 'channel'?

You might count the 'pins' on the cable, and compare that to the number of 'holes' on the TV...or vice versa. They should be equal, btw.

I went through the inputs - I can label a different 'channel' DVD but it stays on the original input. The only other label is 'composite' - there isn't an input labeled for HDMI. I checked the cable - it's compatible. So I must have the inputs mixed up, but I can't figure out how to change the DVD to a different input.

JBKlyde · 07-11-2012, 08:22 PM

you need a new transfuser combobulator

infinite monkey · 07-11-2012, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde

you need a new transfuser combobulator

I actually have two of those. I will sell one. 500 bucks, slightly used.

BigV · 07-11-2012, 09:07 PM

???

It's not God?

07-10-2012, 06:55 PM	#1
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BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Pls speak up. I can't hear a thing you're saying. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Did you have or do you now have a home theater surround sound thingy? (what glatt said, only phrased so that it appears to be a different suggestion, so that I have something to contribute here). __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Is it just HDMI from DVD to TV?

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glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	that's weird. Have you played around with the menus for both the TV and DVD to see what sort of sound you have selected?

07-11-2012, 12:56 PM	#10
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	I'll check the DVD menu when I get home. The TV has sound when cable is used. I don't have any other speakers hooked up, though - I'm just using the TV's speakers. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

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