[parman]

I cannot get any audio with my HDMI hookup.I have a Sony HD TV with a HD Motorola cable box that works fine as is. I want to hookup my DVR to my TV so I can tape vcr tapes and dvd's. I bought a belkin hdmi audio video cable that supports 1080p-1.3. Hookup instructions were to hookup hdmi to dvr and then back of tv. Change modes on tv remote to v4. I did that and got a picture but no audio. My picture and sound from the motorola box is from v3 but when I change to v4 for the dvr all I get is the picture. I can record to dvr but have no audio. Any suggestions. Thanks.

[parman]

Bump!

[JohnWill]

FWIW, I've found certain devices that don't send the audio over the HDMI cable, even though it's clearly there. I had a DVD player that had that problem.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by parman

I cannot get any audio with my HDMI hookup.I have a Sony HD TV with a HD Motorola cable box that works fine as is. I want to hookup my DVR to my TV so I can tape vcr tapes and dvd's. I bought a belkin hdmi audio video cable that supports 1080p-1.3. Hookup instructions were to hookup hdmi to dvr and then back of tv. Change modes on tv remote to v4. I did that and got a picture but no audio. My picture and sound from the motorola box is from v3 but when I change to v4 for the dvr all I get is the picture. I can record to dvr but have no audio. Any suggestions. Thanks.

Let me ask again the hook-up scheme.

1. Motorola to TV and DVR to TV as well?
or
2. Motorola to TV and DVR and then DVR to TV
or
3. Motorola to TV and to DVR (separately)
and
is your audio loss on recordings you've made since you hooked up the HDMI or does it appear with older recordings as well?

[parman]

Motorola to tv and dvr to tv. I have no audio when I have picture with dvr. The hdmi cable is hooked to dvr to tv.I can record with my hookup but have no audio. The motorola is hd with built-in hard drive that I (can) use to tape programs. I wanted to hookup my dvr so I could record on dvd's.

[parman]

When I had the dvr hooked up without hdmi I have audio.

[JohnWill]

Again, I had this exact same scenario, and I ended up connecting the audio with a separate cable. Don't know why the DVD didn't send out audio on the HDMI cable...

[buffoon]

It's a far shot but if with the hook-up you are recording to your dvr from the Sony TV (which, if I understand correctly, gets picture and sound from the cable box) I gotta feeling that the TVs HDMI doesn't do audio out (just in). Hence my question whether older recordings going from your DVR straight to the TV via HDMI are also soundless. If they are then scrap this line of thinking.

John Wills' explanation seems to hit it best then.

[parman]

That's true. There is no audio out from tv. I should say there is audio out but it is to the motorola box which is the sound from the high def motorola box to the tv. That's what I don't understand. The hdmi is suppose to be built-in audio with cable. If I can't use the hdmi I guess I will have to hookup my dvr back to where I had it before. I just wanted to use hdmi for interference and better quality picture for taping.
Thanks JohnWill and buffoon.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by parman

That's true. There is no audio out from tv. I should say there is audio out but it is to the motorola box which is the sound from the high def motorola box to the tv. That's what I don't understand. The hdmi is suppose to be built-in audio with cable. If I can't use the hdmi I guess I will have to hookup my dvr back to where I had it before. I just wanted to use hdmi for interference and better quality picture for taping.
Thanks JohnWill and buffoon.

Final questions and then I'll let it go

What outputs does the cable box have (just co-ax or others like HDMI as well)?

What in/outs does DVR have (more than one HDMI)?

What HDMI (inputs, presumably) does TV have (more than one)?

[JohnWill]

Well, my solution was to use the HDMI cable, but run separate audio. I've since changed the DVD player, and the new one works properly. If you use the HDMI for the video, you'll still get the maximum quality for video...

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

Well, my solution was to use the HDMI cable, but run separate audio. I've since changed the DVD player, and the new one works properly. If you use the HDMI for the video, you'll still get the maximum quality for video...

Had to do the same for a friend with a HDMI PC to TV link for watching vids. According to his spec everything is there but audio just wouldn't support

[parman]

The cable box has these outputs:
co-ax
hdmi
usb
ethernet
sata
ieee 1394
audio, video cables

The DVR has only one hdmi
red,white,blue av in,av out
coaxial digital out
red,white,black audio out
red,blue,green component video out

The tv has only one hdmi

[buffoon]

There's always the one or two HDMI too few. I suffered from that a lot (mainly because the market didn't offer what I wanted) but replacement time (coupla units went AWOL at the same time) fortunately coincided with the market offering what I always wanted.
I was thinking along the lines of a cable box-DVR-TV hook-up but not sufficient HDMIs here. Still wouldn't have known whether that would have worked anyway.
To ask again: does the no-audio happen with DVR DVDs that were recorded from a previousr source? Since the TVs HDMI is only in I don't see how you could have recorded from the TV at all.
I hope the TV has audio in so that you can run a separate audio cable as John Will suggested.

[parman]

Yes there is no audio since I hooked up my dvr to tv with hdmi. Previous recordings were done on another tv without hdmi.
Yes the tv does have audio in. I will try to hookup to audio in to tv and audio out from dvr. I have not tried that.
I could go back to other tv and hookup but would not have hdmi. I paid $50 for the cable so I do want to use it.