No need for help on this, I found out what I did wrong. It was the DVR HDMI connection setup, I needed to change the setting to ON.
Got an Onkyo 5.1 receiver and connected to Panasonic DVR via HDMI but get no sound. Test audio is ok, and get audio via tuner, but no sound with DVD selected on receiver. Connected receiver HDMI Out to TV HDMI in, DVR HDMI connected to receiver DVD input. Am I missing something? Thanks.

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