[parman]

Hooking up to audio in on tv and audio out on dvr did nothing. I did put a dvd in from another recording and got sound and video. When I have dvr on in v4 mode from tv I got picture but no audio. TV stays on v3 for normal watching. In v4 I can watch,set recording and length of taping but no audio.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by parman

Hooking up to audio in on tv and audio out on dvr did nothing. I did put a dvd in from another recording and got sound and video. When I have dvr on in v4 mode from tv I got picture but no audio. TV stays on v3 for normal watching. In v4 I can watch,set recording and length of taping but no audio.

THAT IS REVEALING.
You're not recording audio in this set up. So you obviously don't get any in playback either methinks. Either because the TV's HDMI isn't sending audio out or the DVR doesn't have the IN function on its HDMI.
Can you give me model make of both TV and DVR ?

[parman]

The tv is a sony bravia KLV-32u100m.
The dvr is a samsung dvd-vr375.

[buffoon]

OK, the Samsung has an HDMI OUTput.
The Sony BRAVIA has HDMI INput.
That means a HDMI cable between the two won't work BOTH ways anyway in all the HDMI functions of an HDMI cable. But although neither should really be possible, you can obviously send image from your TV (OUT of an IN), that your TV is receiving from elsewhere to your DVR via HDMI and your DVR is also receiving it (IN to an OUT) which is why it can record the image. Not even that should really happen at all but it's not uncommon.
But whereas the INs and OUTs are not switched sufficiently clean on either DVR or SONY TV or both for image, for audio they are.

What you have recorded from TV to DVR didn't have audio to start with, so there's none to play back. The fact that older recordings come thru in audio supports this.

Won't work, I'm afraid. You can't get fully supported HDMI into your DVR.
You can only playback via HDMI from your DVR what has been previously recorded elsewhere by different hook ups. Purchased DVDs for instance shouldn't be a problem.

[parman]

So, you are telling me that I can only watch pre-recorded dvd's or vhs tapes through hdmi on my dvr. Meaning that if I watch a standard dvd that let's say the quality of picture is not real good; with the hdmi connection my dvd picture quality will be better. Is that correct? If that's not what you mean then I'm totally confused.

[buffoon]

Yes

HDMI will only transport the quality of the original picture but THAT it will do with least loss. If your DVDs were recorded from an analogue source for instance that's the quality that you'll get thru a HDMI cable.

If they were recorded from a HD source (DVD only, forget VHS since that's analogue anyway) then that's the quality that HDMI will also transport best.

HDMI does not improve upon the quality at source but if the quality at source is good (even if it is not so good) HDMI will transport it best (better than an analogue cable).

On VHS; the quality of recording will not be as good on the cassette as at source. Even if the source is HD and you do get a better image on VHS than recording from an analogue source, the analogue nature of VHS entails that you'll have some quality loss.

DVDs are different.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by buffoon

Yes

HDMI will only transport the quality of the original picture but THAT it will do with least loss. If your DVDs were recorded from an analogue source for instance that's the quality that you'll get thru a HDMI cable.

If they were recorded from a HD source (DVD only, forget VHS since that's analogue anyway) then that's the quality that HDMI will also transport best.

HDMI does not improve upon the quality at source but if the quality at source is good (even if it is not so good) HDMI will transport it best (better than an analogue cable).

On VHS; the quality of recording will not be as good on the cassette as at source. Even if the source is HD and you do get a better image on VHS than recording from an analogue source, the analogue nature of VHS entails that you'll have some quality loss.

DVDs are different.

Parman, the ideal set up would be to be able to link HDMI from cable box to
TV and another to DVR and yet another from DVR to TV. But you lack the sufficient connection points so somewhere you'll have to compromise.

[parman]

Is there not an adapter that would do that? Yes, it's true that I only have one hdmi connection at each box. I'm not even using the one at cable box even though I do have hd channels that I'm subscribed to.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by parman

Is there not an adapter that would do that? Yes, it's true that I only have one hdmi connection at each box. I'm not even using the one at cable box even though I do have hd channels that I'm subscribed to.

No idea. Probably offered somewhere out there but I'd be careful with what is promised it can do. Not worth the money. If you find anything that claims to convert Analogue signals to HDMI it'll only be some sort of enhancer but it won't be HDMI.

[parman]

Thanks, Buffoon for all your help!

[buffoon]

You're welcome. And Please remember to mark this as solved if you have no further questions.