Hello Everyone,

I have a Onkyo HT-S990THX 7.1 System. I have a Sony Bravia LCD. I have a PS3.

I already have the PS3 run through the HDMI to the TV, I purchased some Red, Yellow, White cables to run through the TV to the Onkyo receiver. I cant seem to get sound out of my Onkyo system. Ive tested all the speakers with the "test tone" and they are all good. When I have The "R,Y,W" cables hooked to the TV it gives me an option to use Video 1, but if I use that then I no longer have video through the PS3. I dont have cable for the TV yet, so watching regular TV isnt the issue. The HDMI cable from the PS3 provides all the sound and video to the TV. Im just trying to re-route the sound through the theater system and use the TV just for video. Im at a loss, after going through the instruction manual. Im hoping there are some geniuses here who might have an idea. Or am I just using the wrong cables. My Onkyo has digital optical just like the TV but no HDMI on it. Any help would be great. Thanks. Also Ive trie to use rca connector to my computer through video 3 in the front and that works fine but only get 1 speaker to play sound. Ive also use the test tone for the speakers and they are all working just fine. Any ideas what I setup wrong?

Gary

Lose the HDMI cable.  Unless you can run it to your receiver, you're not going to be able to utilize the HD codecs anyway.

Get a component (R,G,B) video cable for your PS3.  Run that into the component video in on your Onkyo.  Then, run digital optical (Toslink) to the receiver from the PS3.

 

When that is done, run another component video cable from the out of the receiver, to an in on the TV.  Change the TV to that input, and you should be good.

 

So, two cables from the PS3 to the receiver (video, audio).  One cable from the receiver to the TV (video).

 

Let us know how it goes.

Good advice PJ.....HDMI requires "handshakes" to pass audio and video to another unit.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP

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Scottiemon