Analog RCA input to HDMI output?

I bought a 42" Sharp Aquos and an Onkyo TX-SR605 receiver as the first two components in my burgeoning A/V setup. I have not yet purchased speakers and was hoping to just use the TV's speakers in the meanwhile and use the receiver as a glorified switch until I can afford some speakers after the holidays.

My Cable Box and my Tivo all connected to the receiver via composite audio and S-video (separate cables). My Wii is connected entirely via composite. The Xbox 360 is connected to the receiver via HDMI.

From the receiver to the TV itself, I am running a single HDMI cable.

We hooked everything up yesterday and for the most part it went really well. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the analog audio to pass through my receiver to the TV via an HDMI cable. So for most of my devices I can't hear any sound.

The Xbox works flawlessly. I get sound and video with nice clarity, etc. For the other devices, I get video, but I cannot get any sound.

Is it simply that the analog audio going into the receiver cannot be transmitted to the TV via HDMI? The receiver "upconverts" video signals, so I thought it would do the same for sound.

The problem will hopefully be alleviated when I get some speakers and the HD cable box so I can run straight up HDMI all the time, but for now, I would like to be able to actually hear what I am watching.

Darthnater Nov 25, 2008

I have a DVD player, dish network box, and wii all hooked up to my tx-sr605 with RCA cables (red/white/yellow) and i get no audio over the HDMI that runs out to my tv or to the center channel speaker (i only have the center channel hooked up so far) is it true that the sound from the RCA cables just simply wont be transmitted via HDMI?
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You have said the correct thing HDMI is digital therefore Analog will not pass.
You might have RCA audio outputs on your cable box so either send them into the TV from cable or into the AMP then use AMP volume to listen to TV audio (select unused input and remember it is for TV) the key is to remember that cable box will drive the initial vol so raise or lower cable vol then use AMP vol to obtain desired volume.

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