I need help before my new receiver depletes me of my sanity!
I have wasted an entire day trying to set up my new receiver so that the TV plays through my HT speakers. I thought that these new HD receivers were supposed to make life simpler, but I am just about ready to return this stupid receiver and hook my old red and whites back up.
I got the receiver working through the ARC connections, but it completely disabled the TV speakers so that if we're watching TV we have no choice but to have the receiver on. With our old receiver we could choose the TV speaker or another output.
I went back to Best Buy this afternoon and bought an optical audio cable. I now have the receiver set up to the TV through an HDMI cable and the optical audio cable. But still no sound through the speakers...only through the TV.
I don't know if I'm missing a connection or a setting. I've been searching the internet for answers and getting nowhere. The Denon manual has turned out to be pretty useless.
How do I set this up so that I can choose my speakers? Or is this even possible? I'm seriously ready to return it and go back to my old JVC receiver. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I can't help but feel that I'm missing something really simple. I'm fed up and not prepared to spend much more time on this.
Thanks!