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Time Warner Cable HDMI Help?

Aug 6, 2009 12:23PM PDT

I have a Samsung LN-S3241D TFT-LCD Television, a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 4250HDC Digital Cable Box, and Time Warner Cable HD Digital Cable. I just recently got a Belkin Pure AV HDMI Audio-Video Cable and I connected it to my cable box and TV. I get a picture but no audio!!! It all works fine when I use a HD component cable that came with the cable box. Please help! I would like to play my Wii in HD. Wink If impossible to use this configuration, could you guys please recommend a solution, since my TV only has one component cable jack!

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Aug 6, 2009 1:08PM PDT

The HDMI cable could be bad or the HDMI port on the box could be bad. Is there any setting in the cable box menu to output audio through HDMI, it would be under setup. Also if you find something that says PCM change it to Bitstream, some tv's do not like PCM audio.

And Wii's are not HD Sad 2011 they will be releasing a HD model Happy

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I will be sure to try that in the morning
Aug 6, 2009 1:10PM PDT

Thanks! I will be sure to try that in the morning!!! Ok, I would like to play my will in 1080p.

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Another Thing!!!
Aug 7, 2009 3:03AM PDT

One other tiny detail I forgot to add. I also have a HP G60-235DX Laptop. We connected it to the TV with the HDMI cable and again a picture but no sound. I do not know if the computer isn't compatible with HDMI Audio or it is the HDMI Cable or the TV. Thanks again for any other help!!!

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Connecting your TV to Time Warner box & Wii
Aug 11, 2009 2:54AM PDT

I have the same HD box from Time Warner. I use an HDMI cable to connect the single HDMI A/V out on the cable box to an HDMI in on my Sharp Aquois HDTV. I use a composite video cable (similar to what Time Warner gave me with the box) to connect my Wii to the component video in on another channel on my TV. I then connect the Wii's audio out to the Left-Right sound inputs on the same channel. This lets me watch HD from cable and get HD video from the Wii. I think I do have to configure the Wii to output HD video in 16x9 format.

I get my sound from the two speakers on my TV, which is only Simulated Surround Sound a best. There was no additional setting on the cable box required.

Don't know if this is relevant information, my Pioneer receiver requires me to explicit set it to receive either ANALOG or DIGITAL audio. If I have it set for ANALOG audio, I would hear nothing from a digital signal channel. Do you think you TV set has that setting?

Going a little off the topic, I also connect the optical audio out from the cable box to the optical audio in on my receiver to get real 5.1 Surround Sound. Unfortunately, I've only experienced up to 4-channel audio and am looking into how to get Bitstream audio from the cable box. But that's another post.