Two grand and all you get is TONE? That must be some fancy engineering.
I'm a cheap watch enthusiast--Fossil keeps me quite happy (FIRE! I have a FIRE watch!)
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
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§ ita § - Sep 11, 2014 9:09:08 am PDT #24055 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 1:51:23 pm PDT #24056 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So....
I have a new 42" Vizio smart TV, and a new Sony HDMI receiver, both gotten at insane discounts (less than $500 for both). This was the toy Halloween bought me this year.
However, both the TV and the Receiver support an Audio Return Channel, but I cannot get my receiver to play sound from the TV without a second connection.
Anybody have any helpful advice? It's making me want to cry.
Tom Scola - Sep 12, 2014 2:20:03 pm PDT #24057 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sean, is this from a cable box, or over-the-air from an antenna?
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 2:23:00 pm PDT #24058 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Neither. I don't have either of those, so all I want the ARC for (for the moment) is to watch Netflix from the TV app.
Or a music app or something.
javachik - Sep 12, 2014 2:34:42 pm PDT #24059 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.
Sean, a weird thing for me, since HDMI is supposed to also send sound, is that with my TV and receiver, I still need to run a separate audio line (digital optical cable). I have no idea why, but it works fine once I have it in. So try that?
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 2:39:18 pm PDT #24060 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have an optical cable I can use, but the point of an Audio Return Channel on both the TV and receiver is that I shouldn't have to do that. The TV is supposed to be able to send sound back down the one cable, and the receiver is supposed to be able to hear it.
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 2:40:59 pm PDT #24061 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And both of my devices claim to do the ARC thing. I'm inclined to believe them, I'm just doing something wrong.
Of course, the Sony manual is so poorly written that it makes me want to go kick people who work for Sony.
Juliebird - Sep 12, 2014 2:52:30 pm PDT #24062 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Voice Control on the iPhone 4, I don't use it. Yet it activates almost everytime I get up from a smoke on the patio. I'll be reading something on the phone, get ready to head inside and lock it, get up, click the button to illuminate my walk to the door, step up the stoop, and boom, it's calling somebody at midnight as I frantically try to shut it down. Can I deactivate this function completely? And any clues as to why it does this in total silence?
Tom Scola - Sep 12, 2014 3:01:12 pm PDT #24063 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Instead of TiVo →TV →Receiver, can't you go TiVo → Receiver →TV?
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 3:25:04 pm PDT #24064 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I don't have a Tivo, either. All I have is SmartTV and receiver. What I'm trying to get working is:
SmartTV ← → Receiver with a single cable. I can do it with two cables (HDMI & optical), but I'd like to (and should be able to) do it with a single HDMI cable.