moggyman
8 months agoUp to speed
Soundbar/HDMI/360 box - no sound at all.
My brother recently had an issue with garbled sound on his TV and it turned out to be his 360 box.
A new one was installed but I'm convinced that something isn't right with it or a setting therein. Since installation he's been having problems getting the TV's sound to go through a soundbar. It's connected correctly using HDMI/ARC cabling but only the TV speakers produce sound.
He even bought a new LG TV and I've tried two different soundbars on it but the problem persists.
Is this a known issue? I also had a replacement 360 box recently and I connected that to my LG OLED and Sonos bar OK without having to change any settings at all. It's baffling. I'm wondering if his 360 box is simply faulty or needs a firmware update to get the sound pushed to the soundbar via HDMI/ARC? I'm told that using an optical connection works fine.
Thanks.
PS. After a bit of snooping around, someone suggested getting a CEC less adaptor from Amazon and plugging that between the 360's HDMI cable and the TV's HDMI port. I'm willing to risk a tenner on that but I'd really like to know what this adapter does if anyone out there knows.........