How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
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Ever since I got rid of my old analog TV set, and migrated the home theater system from a mishmash of legacy hardware connected together via and component and optical cabling in favor of a "simple" all-HDMI setup, it has been nothing but problems.
I literally cannot get audio to play out of the HTPC into the receiver, despite the fact that it USED to work, and I can still see the video.
I'm starting to understand why normal people complain about this **** being unreliable and hard to use. It's because it is. But it didn't used to be.
Seriously, I'm not being nostalgic here. For 10+ years, my PC, TV, and audio receiver worked together flawlessly, interconnected via an array of "obsolete" cables and standards. As soon as I replaced them all with modern hardware and interconnections, it's all gone completely to ****.
I literally cannot get audio to play out of the HTPC into the receiver, despite the fact that it USED to work, and I can still see the video.
I'm starting to understand why normal people complain about this **** being unreliable and hard to use. It's because it is. But it didn't used to be.
Seriously, I'm not being nostalgic here. For 10+ years, my PC, TV, and audio receiver worked together flawlessly, interconnected via an array of "obsolete" cables and standards. As soon as I replaced them all with modern hardware and interconnections, it's all gone completely to ****.
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Ever since I got rid of my old analog TV set, and migrated the home theater system from a mishmash of legacy hardware connected together via and component and optical cabling in favor of a "simple" all-HDMI setup, it has been nothing but problems.
I literally cannot get audio to play out of the HTPC into the receiver, despite the fact that it USED to work, and I can still see the video.
I'm starting to understand why normal people complain about this **** being unreliable and hard to use. It's because it is. But it didn't used to be.
Seriously, I'm not being nostalgic here. For 10+ years, my PC, TV, and audio receiver worked together flawlessly, interconnected via an array of "obsolete" cables and standards. As soon as I replaced them all with modern hardware and interconnections, it's all gone completely to ****.
I literally cannot get audio to play out of the HTPC into the receiver, despite the fact that it USED to work, and I can still see the video.
I'm starting to understand why normal people complain about this **** being unreliable and hard to use. It's because it is. But it didn't used to be.
Seriously, I'm not being nostalgic here. For 10+ years, my PC, TV, and audio receiver worked together flawlessly, interconnected via an array of "obsolete" cables and standards. As soon as I replaced them all with modern hardware and interconnections, it's all gone completely to ****.
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I've had Sony, Pioneer and Yamaha, all within the HDMI age, and all have been buggy with HDMI. Two of them failed within the first two years of owning them. Currently on the Pioneer, about a year in, and I hope it lasts a little longer. They REALLY don't make things like they used to. Out of the 3 so far, the Sony was by far the worst. They used to be known for making really quality products, but after my own experience, and seeing people around me have bad experiences with Sony, I don't think I'll be buying from them unless I have no choice, or get it really cheap. And don't get me started on Samsung's **** build quality and customer service.
Ever since I got rid of my old analog TV set, and migrated the home theater system from a mishmash of legacy hardware connected together via and component and optical cabling in favor of a "simple" all-HDMI setup, it has been nothing but problems.
I literally cannot get audio to play out of the HTPC into the receiver, despite the fact that it USED to work, and I can still see the video.
I'm starting to understand why normal people complain about this **** being unreliable and hard to use. It's because it is. But it didn't used to be.
Seriously, I'm not being nostalgic here. For 10+ years, my PC, TV, and audio receiver worked together flawlessly, interconnected via an array of "obsolete" cables and standards. As soon as I replaced them all with modern hardware and interconnections, it's all gone completely to ****.
I literally cannot get audio to play out of the HTPC into the receiver, despite the fact that it USED to work, and I can still see the video.
I'm starting to understand why normal people complain about this **** being unreliable and hard to use. It's because it is. But it didn't used to be.
Seriously, I'm not being nostalgic here. For 10+ years, my PC, TV, and audio receiver worked together flawlessly, interconnected via an array of "obsolete" cables and standards. As soon as I replaced them all with modern hardware and interconnections, it's all gone completely to ****.
My HTPC is roughly 4 years old, sound is on the motherboard, but there is a separate 1.5GB video card. So I still have to use HDMI for video and Optical for sound (unless there is some way to get sound through the video card?)
Roku and PS4 are all HDMI and it works just fine.
I'm using a Denon AVR-E400
My HTPC is roughly 4 years old, sound is on the motherboard, but there is a separate 1.5GB video card. So I still have to use HDMI for video and Optical for sound (unless there is some way to get sound through the video card?)
You guys are making me nervous, I just spent the time and effort to run HDMI for the TV through the wall in keystone jacks. (I hate having a mess of cables behind the TV.) I would be a little annoyed if all that work was for nothing.
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I also lost ARC functionality somewhere along the way. It had been working fine, then it just stopped, and it's never worked since.
No.
I kind of wish that consumer gear would use SDI, but I know that's never gonna happen- no support for DRM.
It's just a flaky, badly-implemented standard.
The HDMI Founders are Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic/National/Quasar), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson, RCA and Toshiba
Sony was by far the worst
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I am not a superstitious person.
I don't believe in fate or karma. I will openly mock those who seek the counsel of fortune-tellers or tarot readers, who play "special" numbers in the lottery, or who claim to have "a system" for winning games of pure chance. I will happily kick a black cat under a ladder across a pool of spilled salt on Friday the 13th, while whistling the score from Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
(Well, I wouldn't actually kick a cat unless it was already dead, but you know what I mean.)
And yet I have recently received two fortune cookie fortunes in a row which are so amazingly specific and prescient that I'm starting to wonder if someone isn't stalking me in an extremely roundabout way, following me to Chinese take-out restaurants and bribing the girl behind the counter to substitute Perez-targeted fortunate cookies in my order.
I don't believe in fate or karma. I will openly mock those who seek the counsel of fortune-tellers or tarot readers, who play "special" numbers in the lottery, or who claim to have "a system" for winning games of pure chance. I will happily kick a black cat under a ladder across a pool of spilled salt on Friday the 13th, while whistling the score from Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
(Well, I wouldn't actually kick a cat unless it was already dead, but you know what I mean.)
And yet I have recently received two fortune cookie fortunes in a row which are so amazingly specific and prescient that I'm starting to wonder if someone isn't stalking me in an extremely roundabout way, following me to Chinese take-out restaurants and bribing the girl behind the counter to substitute Perez-targeted fortunate cookies in my order.
In fact, the last one was deliberately egging me on to take the advice of the one before it. Like, it was actually being snide about it.
This is getting weird.
I recently bought some used PC components from my brother to make a PC for the living room. About once a week the screen will flash white for a split second and then I have no audio.
I thought it was a driver issue. Does this sound like a HDMI problem?
PC is hooked directly to the TV.
I thought it was a driver issue. Does this sound like a HDMI problem?
PC is hooked directly to the TV.
OK, HDMI audio issues are not uncommon with video cards. What video card are you using? Unfortunately, driver stability seems to be a big issue here. One driver will work, then the next one will break audio, then the next one will fix it, and so on, over and over.
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I have a mishmash of HDMI and component and optical and coax spdif and the only problem I ever have is that our babysitters can't use it so I have to re-enable the TV speakers so they can use one remote. but my universal remote has too many repeats and only it and the TV remote can properly do this so... I have to dick around.
but otherwise everything works great.
half of everything goes from HDMI at the source to the TV and then uses the TV's optical out (or is it coax?). the other half uses component and either optical or coax directly to the receiver's component switcher and back to the TV.
if I need PC, I run a 10 meter HDMI from my laptop to the side input on the tv, extend the desktop, and keep on keepin on.
I also have a chromecast for so my wife and i can share funny videos on youtube.
the receiver is a ~10 year old Denon AVR 2805.
but otherwise everything works great.
half of everything goes from HDMI at the source to the TV and then uses the TV's optical out (or is it coax?). the other half uses component and either optical or coax directly to the receiver's component switcher and back to the TV.
if I need PC, I run a 10 meter HDMI from my laptop to the side input on the tv, extend the desktop, and keep on keepin on.
I also have a chromecast for so my wife and i can share funny videos on youtube.
the receiver is a ~10 year old Denon AVR 2805.
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Like this complaint. The number of times I have seen the supermoon on January 30th come up is TOO DAMN HIGH! It's always accompanied by a photo of the moon in such a perspective that it looks gigantic, as if you can really see that kind of difference from any other night. At most the moon is ~5% larger than average. Whoopdeedoo! And this one is a ******* new moon. So it'll be a slightly larger dark spot in the sky.
I can't wait for the equinox again so I can stand my broom up!
Find me a page in this thread or any other where I'm not complaining. I dare you. Do it, do it.
Like this complaint. The number of times I have seen the supermoon on January 30th come up is TOO DAMN HIGH! It's always accompanied by a photo of the moon in such a perspective that it looks gigantic, as if you can really see that kind of difference from any other night. At most the moon is ~5% larger than average. Whoopdeedoo! And this one is a ******* new moon. So it'll be a slightly larger dark spot in the sky.
I can't wait for the equinox again so I can stand my broom up!
Like this complaint. The number of times I have seen the supermoon on January 30th come up is TOO DAMN HIGH! It's always accompanied by a photo of the moon in such a perspective that it looks gigantic, as if you can really see that kind of difference from any other night. At most the moon is ~5% larger than average. Whoopdeedoo! And this one is a ******* new moon. So it'll be a slightly larger dark spot in the sky.
I can't wait for the equinox again so I can stand my broom up!
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