Is the cable ARC capable for audio return?
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The HDMI interface is designed to transfer high quality, digital, multi-channel audio signals along with video at extremely high resolutions and color bit-rates. Being a digital signal with data error correction, it is much less susceptible to low-intensity radio frequency and electromagnetic interference, which would cause snow, ghosting, or other signal distortions in an analog signal.
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Dear T.M.,Thank you for your question regarding our BlueRigger HDMI cables! Our HDMI cables do support ARC for audio return. The 75 foot and 100 foot HDMI cables are unidirectional and don't support the ARC.Please contact us at service@bluerigger.com if you have any additional questions.Thanks,BlueRigger LLCservice@bluerigger.com
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Thank you so much for your help. I was afraid no one was going to respond! The receiver does have ARC according to the manual. I will first try to connect without getting a set-top box from the cable company; but if that doesn't work, I will have to get one.
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From your AV reciever, use an HDMI from the TV-out slot to the TV HDMI slot that supports ARC. It will say ARC below the port you are looking for. You may have to program your reciever to recognize HDMI-ARC (check your owners manual) but this will send all audio from the TV to your reciever using only the one HDMI cable. This reduces cables and will do exactly what you are asking.
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Audio Return Channel (ARC) is supported by system and it does work on a computer and a Samsung TV.
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Yes, the system has a TV Arc setting which allow audio from television to play through system. TV arc doesn't work with all HDMI cables. If TV Arc doesn't work with one cable try another one.
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I not sure I know what an optical audio cable is, so I don't know if I can answer your question or not.
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I do not know. My cable did not work in my situation. I returned it, but never received a refund.
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I prefer to hook my critical video equipment, especially reference equipment, directly to my monitor. You can use the ARC HDMI to get TV sound out of the Receiver. there 'has' to be 'some' information lost in the translation, imo.
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You will need it if your TV has an HDMI input, but the TV does not support what is called an Audio Return Channel (ARC). If this is the case, you will need an optical cable to send the audio from the TV to the receiver. If your TV supports ARC, then you will not need the optical cable. ARC allows audio from the TV to be sent to the receiver using the same HDMI cable that is used to send video from the receiver to the TV. My TV does not support ARC, so I am using HDMI for video and an optical cable for audio.
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HDMI 1.3 and 1.4 both are rated at the same MHZ and bandwidth, so it should work based off of specs, however, 1.4 allows for the use of "ARC", audio return channel. I do not know if it will support ARC.
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I believe I returned this because the audio did not come through this connector... video came fine, but not audio. So if you're not really interested in audio this may be an effective and inexpensive solution. It could have been that I got a defective unit too so you can try this out and if you experience the same issue I did you can return it.
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You'll probably want to get a set-top box from your cable provider and then run HDMI from it (the box) to the receiver. If you'd rather not do that (and who wants another "rental" fee from the cable company?) then you'll have a few options, which I'll explain below... I'm not sure if this receiver does an "audio return channel" (ARC) over HDMI or not. ARC can bring audio from the cable (or other inputs) from the TV to the receiver over the HDMI cable. ARC is part of the HDMI 1.4 standard but I haven't read the manual for this product; not sure if it does it or not. If it does, you're golden. Just program the receiver to do it. Shouldn't take more than thirty seconds. If it doesn't support ARC, you'll need to leave the coaxial cable plugged into the TV and (in order of signal quality from best to worst) run an optical (Toslink) audio cable or an RCA digital "coaxial" audio cable or (*gasp*) an RCA ("red and white") analog cable from the TV to the receiver. The "coaxial" connector on the receiver refers to coaxial digital audio. It's likely that your TV will have a Toslink output on the back panel. That will give the highest quality signal. A 12-foot Belkin "Pure A/V" Toslink cable should cost less than $10 (plus shipping). Nearly every A/V cable I own was made by Belkin and I've had excellent results from them all. I hope this helps you to make sense of your connectivity problem. Best of luck!
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Forget all the rest of these answers. This device contains a unidirectional pathway. It even has input and output printed on it, and there is a reason for that. Data is restricted to flow in only one direction. You can not even send video alone backwards through it, let alone re/combine video with sound. It will also not allow for ARC data flow since it blocks the return path. This also has a USB power input. This will not change anything. As far as I can tell, you don't even need the USB. I don't use it at all.
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Your receiver should support ARC (Audio Return Channel), make sure it is enable on the receiver. That's how the sound from my over the air tv get's back to the receiver
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You could get a SCART audio extractor that lets you input audio, or you could modify the cable to support audio. What console are you using?
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Yes, it is. HDMI2 is labeled ARC. We also have the 65 inch version of this TV and use the ARC audio setup with an external Samsung sound bar. It's a little funky, but it works fine 99% of the time. Sometimes the TV loses its pairing and you have to repair it and/or select external speakers in the menu, but for the most part it works. The smaller version has the same port on the back which supports the ARC thing from what I can see.
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You can connect it via a digital optical cable...not a big deal. Just purchase one. You will have to the same thing with most all audio systems since your TV doesn't support ARC.