Hook up Sony Bravia Home Theater DAV-HDX277WC

How have.you connected the TV to the surround unit ?

Which direction do you expect audio to be flowing: from or to the TV? The HDMI is an outbound connection for video. Page 71 describes how to enable the DVD AUDIO ONLY if you really want TV speakers to be competing with the DAV.

http://www.retrevo.com/support/Sony-DAV-HDX576-Home-Theater-Systems-manual/id/13756ag215/t/2/

Your only choice is most likely a 3.5mm minijack cable. Take the laptop to a Radishack and make sure that cable will fit. The Sony should have an input for that cable even if it is the headphone jack. If your laptop has other audio outputs like an RCA or hdmi, which is unlikely, you would connect one of those cables between it and the Sony (Sony's input).

Verify that all speakers work for test tones first. The center carries most of the dialog. It's in the manual, as is your symptom (page 101).

To each source a digital input must be assigned.

Strickly speaking about the audio:

The unit has digital audio in on 1 each coaxial and digital connectors.

Most DVD players have digital audio out in either a coaxial (RCA-looking) cable or optical cable.

Consider this: your TV is not a Source of audio (or even video, if you think about it). You probably get your programming from a cable or satellite box, Its audio should be available digitally.

If your DVD and cable use DIFFERENT types of digital audio sources, you're in luck. Attach each one to its compatible input on the Bravia. If you only have two optical outputs you can only attach one at a time.

If you have only two COAXIAL digital audio sources you CAN combine them into a single digital input on the Bravia by getting an RCA-splitter cable to connect them both to the one connector. It will only work if you leave one source dormant or off at any time you're monitoring the other source, otherwise you'll have two digital 'converstions' going on with the Bravia at the same time and it won't be pretty.

Your laptop only has an stereo output so it is not possible. I don't know if there is any gadget that you can connect to the usb, and get a surround output from a computer. You may wana check that out, and if there exist such a device it surely would have a software to go along with it.

It sounds like either the input selected to the receiver is wrong, the wires are not hooked up correctly, or the wires are bad. What type of connection are you using-RCA jacks, DVi connector, etc?

Below picture shows Audio inputs of Sony DAV-S400 and you can hook up any one.
Go to menu of home theater system and enable surround.
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