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Question

Speaker system won't work on all speakers except w/t.v.

Dec 26, 2014 9:03PM PST

I have Sony BDP-S3200 ($79.00 at BestBuy). Besides playing DVDs and Blu Ray discs, this Sony player has amazon instant video (i'm a prime member), netflix, crackle, hulu, and more than a dozen other movie players, some of which I've never tried. The problem I have is the sound on the Sony comes out of TV instead of my speaker system if I try to watch from google play movies or youtube. I have an old Bose system which has subwoofer and 5 speakers. It has the old stereo wires and the ones that run to the far away speakers are wide white cables which we have hidden with floor wraps. I haven't figured out how to get DVD movies to come out of ALL 5 speakers. With the cable TV, sound comes out all 5 speakers. With the DVD movies, sound will only come out of the first 2 left/right speakers. With the YouTube or Google play movies I can't get speaker sound at all on my speaker system and have to use the TV for sound. My receiver is newer than my BOSE system but its not very new either. Hate to replace the Bose system as when it works, the sound is good and it was expensive. Any advice?

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Clarification Request
Missing a few details.
Dec 27, 2014 12:09AM PST

I can't find the exact model of the BOSE or the TV but almost all TVs won't pass 5.1 if the source is HDMI. I can't tell what BOSE you have so while I'd like to try, I can't tell what you have. Tell all.

OK, here's the usual setup.

Source -> Receiver (does the audio and passes video) -> TV.
TV (optical) -> Receiver for when the TV is the source.
Bob

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here are my components
Dec 27, 2014 12:35AM PST
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Bose system
Dec 27, 2014 12:48AM PST

i found my manual for Bose system. It states: The Bose Acoustimass 15 if that helps.

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From Bose. ". A 5.1-channel receiver is required."
Dec 27, 2014 2:25AM PST

From Bose. ". A 5.1-channel receiver is required."

The my stuff links are a mess. I had hoped for make/model numbers but there appears to be a receiver there so why not the USUAL setup I noted?

Maybe you got lost in the hookup maze? If so, I can't write a step by step here. Too much to write so let's use the usual setup I noted above and your receiver's own manual. I can't find that manual as I don't see what you have.
Bob

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a better link
Dec 27, 2014 5:04AM PST
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To get the TV optical to the Receiver
Dec 27, 2014 5:11AM PST

Requires a little work in settings but you claim it's dead. Check to see if someone forget to take the caps off the ends of the optical cable and then for the still unknown make/model TV back to its manual to see how to tell it to send audio over optical.
Bob

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red/white cable now working
Dec 27, 2014 6:27AM PST

with red/white cable. Think its called radio cable?

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(NT) Or Audio cables.
Dec 27, 2014 6:33AM PST