pete_c said:
Curious about this. I am confused a bit.
If all it is you are interested in is audio why not just pass the digital audio to coaxial cable.
Or utilize analog audio (have earphone and RCA jacks here on LCD TV).
Looking at the back of one LCD TV here see optical and RCA digital jacks for audio.
How do you intend to get HDMI from the AVR to the LCD TV?
I got the HDMI cable through, but it wasn't easy. So this is an elevated area with a TV on one side and the audio equipment on the other. Between the two is a fireplace.
Here is a picture:
So on one side is a DirecTV receiver (HDMI) and TV and on the other is a Denon multizone receiver, and subwoofer. You can't see it but the wires for all the speakers in the house come in behind the Denon on the right. All the rooms have speakers and volume controls in the wall. and the familyroom here was wired for 5.1 sound. I replaced all the volumes controls and swapped them out for impedance matching volume controls. So now I can have house music on Zone 2.
The problem was getting the HDMI from the DirecTV receiver to the Denon to decode and send through the 5.1 speakers. I have an HDMI 2-Way splitter with one going to the TV and a second one going to the receiver. This allows me to have the TV supply the sound, or use the receiver if I want but I don't HAVE to use the receiver for sound. I had that hookup in my previous house, and the Denon is a power-hog, so this way I don't need it on all the time.
I'm replacing all the speakers (the house is 20 years old) and when i removed that center speaker you can see I discovered the bottom was hollow, so I ran the HDMI cable down the wall into the space then back up to the TV. MUCH easier said then done. It took 5+ hours to do that since there was wood between the wall space and floor space. Now i realize i should have run TWO HDMI cables because the Denon can display the its setup on the monitor, but I will just run a cable when I need that.
It all works great, except this stupid Denon is so complex, I literally have to pull out the 300 page manual just to figure out how to change the FM channel. I used to have CQC control it, and that was far easier than actually controlling it using actual buttons. It has two remotes which aren't any easier to figure out than the unit itself.