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As an "aside" I'll say that listening through a surround setup is far superior sound than what you will experience through little TV speakers. If it's a matter of being too loud after hours, have you checked out many of the surround-sound headphones that could plug into your receiver's headphone jack. I've got the Sony MDR-IF8000 surround-infrared-wireless 6.1 channel headphones and they are great! I don't like the 900 MHz radio frequency type wireless headphones because microwaves and hairblowers etc. can cause static and interference (therby reducing your listening pleasure :-) sorry, can't resist ... I'm in Product Marketing). Infrared type wireless is the best technology. And you can add an unlimited number of extra headphones for other people when listening after hours. Mine are a bit expensive though. There are others out there. Or just regular plug in headphones. TV sound is awful!
That being said, you need to run stereo (2) cables and a (3rd) video cable from your receiver to the TV or direct from your player to the TV. Then set the downmix from 5.1 to 2 channels. I don't know your setup so I why don't you invite one of your audiophile or nerdy friends over to your house to hook it up for you and show you how to switch back and forth from downmixing for the TV and then back to surround sound for when you want full sound. Print-out and let him read this conversation between us. BTW, nerds love pizza and coke!
Best regards
Whisperer
PS I have used CloneDVD to removed dolby tracks, leaving only dts, in order to make more room on a backup. I have never un-ticked all sound options but I guess if I did, I'd get no sound.
PPS Just had another thought. To make the hookup easy, you could get a converter cable (at an audio store or Radio Shack - measure the length of the cable you need to buy) with one end being a headphone "male"-jack and the other end being the red & white stereo "male" jacks. Then plug the stereo jacks into the TV's color coded stereo sockets and the headphone jack end into your surround-receiver's socket. Then switch "off" the speakers on your receiver. The headphone jack (when running the receiver in analoge rather than digital sound mode), by definition, has to downsize 5.1 channels to 2 channels. You obviously already have the video picture cable hooked up. So now you will get sound out of your TV speakers too. My Receiver is a JVC, yours may work differently ... nerd time again!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 8. June 2005 @ 11:06
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