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Originally Posted by Iwritecode
If your setups are anything like mine, you can't play the TV sound through the overhead speakers.
When I play a DVD I can get the sound through them but when I'm just watching regular OTA television, the only sound I get is from the TV speakers.
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You probably can, you just have to take the time to set it up right. I did it in my Flagstaff, and it's on the to-do list for the Surveyor. You just need to find an audio-out on the TV that you can route back into an Aux-in on the radio.
That said, back to the OP's question:
Most likely it's not been wired that way from the factory. On my rig, there was only a video cable originally between the TV and the radio. I had to add the appropriate cabling (in my case a 1/8th stereo plug to RCA cable) to get the TV's sound into an unused AUX-in port on the back of my radio. In my BIL's rig, he had audio cables, but they were hooked up wrong. They had hooked up an audio input on the TV to an audio input on the radio. My suggestion is to pull the radio, look behind the TV, and correct the wiring to what you really want.
At the same time, you can probably do a little upgrading. In my case, I had added another 1/8th to RCA cable, so I can plug in an iPod, phone, etc, and a HDMI drop so I can plug in our Lightning-to-Digital AV adapter for playing movies off the iPad. In the new rig, we have one of those sound bars with a stand alone DVD player connected via composite cables that then runs the video to the TV. I intend to swap that around and replace the DVD with a Blu-Ray, run it HDMI into the TV, and leverage the optical out on the TV into an Optical in on the sound bar so I can improve the picture quality of what we're watching.
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