Samsung HT-TQ85 HDMI Input not working. Have tried HDMI audio on and off. Should route the sound, when HDMI Audio on to TV speakers and when HDMI Audio off through receiver surround speakers. Does neither. HDMI cable hooked from satellite box direct to TV carries sound.

You probably will get the best result if you use a digital to analog audio converter. Amazon has a number of models: https://www.amazon.com/DA-Converters/b?ie=UTF8&node=3224445011 . You will need to provide the optical audio cable. You connect the TV's optical audio out to the converter's input. Then use the converter's RCA output to the home theater system's audio input.

The TVs HDMI port is only an HDMI input (possibly with Audio Return Channel). This isn't usually resolved by an HDMI-RCA Converter. This converter might have worked to split off the audio signal from a Blu-ray player with an HDMI cable to the converter and then another HDMI cable to the TV and the RCA audio going to the Home Theater system.

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells

One way would be to connect one of the the digital audio outputs to the HT as an input (HDMI or optical digital audio).


Another would be to select one of the DSP modes that uses surround speakers. They work with all input modes.

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200802/20080203110035031_HT-Z510-XAA-0125.pdf

I looked at the manual and they provided the following settings.

To listen to audio received by the HDMI IN jacks through your TV's speakers:

• Set the "TV Control" setting to "On" (? 37) for an p-compatible TV.
• Set the "Audio TV OUT" setting to "On" (? 36) when the TV is not compatible with p or the "TV Control" setting to "Off".
• Set your Blu-ray Disc/DVD player's HDMI audio output setting to PCM.
• To listen to TV audio through the AV receiver, see "Connecting External Components" (? 17).

Your Polk speakers are Compatible with 8 Ohm amplifiers. It should be fine.

I had the same problem. You're not doing anything wrong. the thing is you can't (I don't know why but the owner manual says it) have sound going to your tv AND your HT speakers when you're using HDMI. You should try going to input setup, choose hdmi audio out to your TV instead of the speakers, and then run an optical cable from your satellite to your receiver, assigning it to the TV/Cable input.

you have to hook up seperate audio cables for the tv you may have to set onto aux mode for your tv

All,

I submitted an earlier request trying to determine why surround sound wasn't coming through all speakers when playing my TV.

Looking further into the Samsung site I found out that you MUST connect the optical cable from the home theater unit to the CABLE BOX and not to your TV to get surround sound...I'm currently in the office but will change the connection once home...try connecting to your CABLE BOX instead of your TV and it should resolve the problem.

Hey guys, just had the same problem and found out it was because I had disconnected the central speaker. This it was creating a back impedance or something and reonnecting did the trick! i.e. check your speaker connections and check that they work... duff speakers could cause the problem too!

check connections to bass module amp. and ensure that it is powered on and turned up . no blown fuses or loosely connected cables. to and from amp. especially those to stellite speakers.

Check out Onkyo's website: The HT-SR 800 description says "a separate audio connection is necessary" Maybe it is true for the --750 too.