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mrdierks
mrdierks Posts: 4
edited May 2009 in Electronics
I have no sound on my 52" Sharp LCDTV. I have a picture but no sound. I have re-set the Direct TV Sattellite receiver several times like they tell me to but I think my HDMI cable is shot. It is the cable provided by Direct TV when they installed my HD receiver. Which tells me it was not very good quality to begin with. I hope someone can lead me in the right direction to fix this. I do have sound when playing movies on my dvd player. It is not hooked up through HDMI. This is how I came to my conclusion of a possible bad HDMI cable. Thank You.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited May 2009
    Welcome to club Polk.


    Hmmm.... How to test a HDMI cable? Do you have another HDMI source DVD player? Do you have another HDMI input on the tv?

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  • mrdierks
    mrdierks Posts: 4
    edited May 2009
    Yeah, I have other ports and I tried them. Same result.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited May 2009
    mrdierks wrote: »
    I have no sound on my 52" Sharp LCDTV. I have a picture but no sound. I have re-set the Direct TV Sattellite receiver several times like they tell me to but I think my HDMI cable is shot. It is the cable provided by Direct TV when they installed my HD receiver. Which tells me it was not very good quality to begin with. I hope someone can lead me in the right direction to fix this. I do have sound when playing movies on my dvd player. It is not hooked up through HDMI. This is how I came to my conclusion of a possible bad HDMI cable. Thank You.

    You should check your settings. The Audio over HDMI may not be enabled. It's got nothing to do with cable quality at this point, worry about functionality....baby steps.
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  • mrdierks
    mrdierks Posts: 4
    edited May 2009
    The problem is, I had sound for a month and a half from when it was all installed new and today it went silent. So the Audio over HDMI should have been enabled for me to have had sound all this time until today right?!!
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited May 2009
    Doro's right,

    When I first hooked up my HDMI DVD player the TV wouldn't output sound because I had not selected 2.0 digital on the HDTV's menu. Each TV is a bit different. You may also have to get into the HD-Boxes menus?

    Check ALL your MANUALS...it's IN THERE!

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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited May 2009
    Sure. What changed recently? Do you have a friend who uses the system?....like a wife? They usually like to press buttons.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited May 2009
    mrdierks wrote: »
    The problem is, I had sound for a month and a half from when it was all installed new and today it went silent. So the Audio over HDMI should have been enabled for me to have had sound all this time until today right?!!

    Any power outages during that time that may have 'reset' things to default settings?

    cnh
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  • mrdierks
    mrdierks Posts: 4
    edited May 2009
    There was a quick like five second outage the other night. But everything seemed normal until today. I will get my manual and look it over and make sure there is nothing I missed. But I really think it is the cable. I am kind of stubborn that way. I really appreciate all of your help. Everything you folks mentioned will be dually noted for sure because I am an electrician not an electronics technician.
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  • Ender
    Ender Posts: 603
    edited May 2009
    Whos Matt?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,018
    edited May 2009
    mr not
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited May 2009
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Sure. What changed recently? Do you have a friend who uses the system?....like a wife? They usually like to press buttons.


    hehehehe, been there for sure.

    RT1
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited May 2009
    I will say that the cable Dtv gave me with my hd receiver was the worst cable I've seen ( I didn't even use it), but as long as you haven't kinked the connections, I doubt it went bad.

    I'd bet electronics before the cable. I'm thinking something with the Dtv receiver. If you still think it's the hdmi cable, you can get one from Monoprice.com really cheap.
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  • Marty913
    Marty913 Posts: 760
    edited May 2009
    DirecTv boxes get firmware upgrades occasionally. Any chance your audio menu selections got reset ? Got a friend / family member / neighbor close by with an HDMI you could borrow for 10 minutes ?
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