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Posted by Bill G on 11/29/05 19:14
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:09:56 -0600, Keeper of the Purple Twilight
<no@spam.invalid> wrote:
>I just bought a Samsung DVD-HD845 player. Here's how I have things connected:
>
>DVD player to TV via HDMI cable (for video)
>DVD player to Receiver via Coaxial cable (for audio; my receiver does
>not have HDMI)
>
>It looks and sounds great, but whenever I play a DVD, the DVD player
>repeatedly reminds me "HDMI Audio Not Supported." Why would it do this?
>I tried turning on the TV's speakers, and lo and behold it isn't
>getting any audio over the HDMI cable. HDMI carries both audio and
>video, so why would the DVD player not support it?
>
>About the only thing I can think of is, since my TV doesn't support
>Dolby Digital or DTS, it is somehow telling the DVD player to disable
>the audio output over the HDMI cable.
After skimming through the Samsung manual, this is what it looks like
to me. I don't have one of these units, so maybe someone else will
chime in.
>If this is the only reason, then
>I'm cool with it. I planned on getting a new receiver anyway, one which
>*does* have HDMI.
>
>My question is, if I do get this receiver (a Yamaha HTR-5990, that's
>the one I'm looking at), would the DVD player *still* give me this
>annoying message, or would the HDMI audio work in this case (since the
>5990 obviously supports HDMI audio and video)? I don't want to blow 900
>bucks on a receiver unless I know the DVD player will transmit audio
>*and* video to it, via HDMI.
--
Bill
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