Recent content by madcap

I ordered and received the HDMI audio converter from a place out west for $24 plus tax. Installed it yesterday and found it solved the problem. A small piece of extra hardware to join the maze of wires already in place, but a small price to pay to get the home theatre sound back for all...

Thanks, I plan to do just that today. The other thing I didn't mention was that I have a large number of movies that have been copied from commercial discs (by removing copy protection) and they don't have any sound either. The video plays fine. Question: Do you think that an HDMI audio...

Thanks for your info Titan. Here's something weird, a commercial dvd movie plays fine with both sound and video. A game disc (NHL 17) displays video only. Maybe I should try to figure out what the audio format is for the movie dvd and compare with the game disc. I tried all the settings on...

I tried playing around with the settings on the surround sound system but didn't spend much time on it, I will have to try again. Can't use the optical outlet as this particular ps4 doesn't have one. Can't understand why a stb and super android box are both connected to the hdmi inputs, and...

It's plugged into the receiver. When I plug it directly into the tv, it works fine, sound and video, although the sound quality isn't home theatre quality.

Thanks for getting back. Went into "settings" , "audio output" and had two options. 1. a box with (priority) and 3 options linear pcm, dolby, and dts. When I changed to dolby, I got theme music. Checked the video that I was playing, no sound. Went back and chose second box, hdmi output...

Received ps4 for christmas and when connecting, using hdmi, had sound if connected directly to my tv, but when I tried going through my surround sound system, only got video, no sound. Other devices connected the same way work fine. There is no optical outlet on my console. I think there must...