Sony KDF-50WE655 bug
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homerhd
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Sony KDF-50WE655 bug
On my Sony LCD KDF-50WE655 I have discovered a bug that might help out anyone else that is going through what I have. I have the tv speakers set to off and am connected to the receiver of my home theater system with the optical and the analog audio out. This works nicely as the digital stations go out through the optical giving me Dolby 5.1 when available, and the analog stations go out through the analog audio out. The receiver knows to use whichever feed is active. The problem comes in when you are tuned to an analog station and you open the "favorites" menu from the tv remote. As soon as you do, the audio cuts out. If you close the menu, the audio still does not come back. You have to go to a digital or HD station, which will have audio, and then come back to the analog station and the audio will be re-established. Talked to Sony on this and they said it is just the way the set works and there's no work around. If anyone knows a fix for this it would be greatly appreciated. The favorites menu was kinda nice to have.
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donshan
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I am not sure this will help, but I have an occasional audio problem that is similar. This may be caused by the receiver, not the Sony TV.
Does your receiver have a menu setup for the digital sound input and does your receiver indicate in its display what sound type it is set to?
In my Yamaha there are two settings "last" or "auto". In "last" setting the receiver stays on the last audio type used. In "auto" which I normally use, it is supposed to detect which audio type is being received and switch the internal decoder to that type of audio. But if there is NO audio input it can get mixed up, until it gets a known input again. In mine by briefly pushing the amplifier(receiver in your case) remote button for the receiver TV sound input reestablishes the sound. My receiver also has an "input" command that changes sound types in sequence with each toggle of the button- "analog-- DD- DTS- PCM- with each push. Sometimes the receiver just gets lost and I find it is set to DTS digital when it should be on one of the others. The "auto" does not work and it takes a toggle of this "input" command to find the audio again. I had my Universal remote " learn" this input command in the TV mode so it is available when things go wrong ever once in a while. In my case problems occur after playing a DTS digital sound DVD and then going back to the DirecTV which is either PCM or DD sound.
If this is on the right track- then a universal remote that could issue a two command IR Macro might work. The first IR command to access your "favorites" could also issue a second IR command at the same time to trigger the audio receiver at the same time.
I am not saying yours is exactly the same, but maybe the idea will help. If I were to set the menu to "last" it would stay fixed, but then require toggle of the remote to switch to each of the sound types it handles. In the old days all sound was analog, but now there are multiple flavors of digital and the receiver has to decode it properly.
Does your receiver have a menu setup for the digital sound input and does your receiver indicate in its display what sound type it is set to?
In my Yamaha there are two settings "last" or "auto". In "last" setting the receiver stays on the last audio type used. In "auto" which I normally use, it is supposed to detect which audio type is being received and switch the internal decoder to that type of audio. But if there is NO audio input it can get mixed up, until it gets a known input again. In mine by briefly pushing the amplifier(receiver in your case) remote button for the receiver TV sound input reestablishes the sound. My receiver also has an "input" command that changes sound types in sequence with each toggle of the button- "analog-- DD- DTS- PCM- with each push. Sometimes the receiver just gets lost and I find it is set to DTS digital when it should be on one of the others. The "auto" does not work and it takes a toggle of this "input" command to find the audio again. I had my Universal remote " learn" this input command in the TV mode so it is available when things go wrong ever once in a while. In my case problems occur after playing a DTS digital sound DVD and then going back to the DirecTV which is either PCM or DD sound.
If this is on the right track- then a universal remote that could issue a two command IR Macro might work. The first IR command to access your "favorites" could also issue a second IR command at the same time to trigger the audio receiver at the same time.
I am not saying yours is exactly the same, but maybe the idea will help. If I were to set the menu to "last" it would stay fixed, but then require toggle of the remote to switch to each of the sound types it handles. In the old days all sound was analog, but now there are multiple flavors of digital and the receiver has to decode it properly.