Help! Feel so stupid ...

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Originally Posted by BigV

Not "channel", but "input".
You already have this figured out because you can find the video for the dvd player. But, mysteriously, you don't have the audio that you know should be coming out of the tv along with the video. This is a good puzzle.

What I'd do is to simplify the problem. Try to conquer it by dividing it. Does the tv output sound all by itself? Check. Does the dvd player output sound to a different tv? Unknown. Can you check this? Does the given cable transmit audio and video from other known good sources? That kind of troubleshooting will isolate the problem.

All right! Thanks for thinking out loud, V, because in practical terms, at least, the problem is solved ...

I have a smaller TV that has HDMI input, and an older non-HDMI DVD player. I checked out various combinations of connections between the two TVs and the two DVD players, and behold: my big, more expensive TV does not get audio via its HDMI input. It does work, on a different input, with an older triple cable from either DVD player. The smaller TV works perfectly, video and audio, via HDMI cable from the HDMI-capable DVD player. I can play the same DVD on the two TVs at once using the two different cables. (I'm enjoying Iron Man II on two TVs right now. )

So my big TV isn't getting audio via HDMI, for whatever reason; my small TV is fine with HDMI input; and I can at least watch DVDs using the older cable on my big TV. It doesn't use the bigger TV's potential to its max, but there's a problem with its HDMI input so I'm not going to get that potential no matter what.

I'm practical. I'll take what I can get ... and now I get audio with my DVDs! Hooray!!!

(This is my exciting Friday night ... but hey, I'm happy )