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no sound unable to get sound on samsung soundbar connected by arc to Bravia xe9305 arc port

romipat — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:47:41 GMT

has anyone managed to connect thier XE93 to a samsung soundbar using ARC?

ive gt a bravia XE 9305 andam trying to connect it to a samsung HW MS650 soundbar using the ARC ports on the bravia and the soundbar but am not getting any sound. ive configured the tv to pass the sound control to and external device but still am not geting any sound passed to the soundbar. it works when i use bluetooth and pair them but I cant get it to work using ARC, any ideas?

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IamNic — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:59:26 GMT

Hello @romipat ,

ARC should work across different manufacturers - maybe your HDMI-cable doesn't support ARC?

- Nic

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Marino.Manolo — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 01:19:24 GMT

Manolo

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romipat — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:11:03 GMT

@Marino.Manolo wrote:

Manolo

@Marino.Manolo wrote:

Manolo che thank you for your advice my hdmi cable is a high speed hdcp compliant one. I would have expected it to work I didnt know that some hdmi cables didnt support arc thats a new one on me 😞

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romipat — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:33:46 GMT

Samsung got me to do a software reset on the soundbar but it made no difference. when i toggled the digital in is displayed sound mute Samsung support then said it sounds like it may be that thesoftware is corrupted but I managed to get it working using a SPDIF opytical cable so they said it must be a fault with the sony arc port and that i should contact them. not convinced myself as the port works fine as an input

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royabrown2 — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:05:03 GMT

I’ve posted quite an extensive reply to your problem which may well help, but it got flagged as spam, which it wasn’t.

I reported this for moderation, but have heard nothing back

This is the second time this has happened, so I am reviewing whether it is worth me posting here any more.

You might yourself want to push for my posting to be restored here; it’s no good to you, or to anybody else, if it stays in limbo.

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romipat — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:14:59 GMT

@royabrown2 wrote:
I’ve posted quite an extensive reply to your problem which may well help, but it got flagged as spam, which it wasn’t.

I reported this for moderation, but have heard nothing back

This is the second time this has happened, so I am reviewing whether it is worth me posting here any more.

You might yourself want to push for my posting to be restored here; it’s no good to you, or to anybody else, if it stays in limbo.

thanks no ideawhy they would flag your reply ??? im going to stick to using the spdif optical option as its working. Ive also readon reports that the latest Sony update hasresulted in users gettting no sound from the soundbars so if its because Sony have made chages to the HDMI ports drivers then sticking to optical may be a safer option for me at this stage. I have no idea how I would be able to push for your posting to be restored but thanks for taking the time to respond even if Sony did a big brother on you.

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romipat — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:05:55 GMT

just a quick update which might help anyone else who has a problem to get sound from a Samsung soundbar when connecting it to thier Bravia's.

Samsung for some strange reason refer to CEC as Anynet+ on their soundbars so yo have to turn anynet plus on on thier bars and then turn on the Bravia sync on the Bravia tv and that's it it now turns on or off with my tv and I can control the volume of the bar using the tv remote

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royabrown2 — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 05:55:41 GMT

(Why can’t I Quote any more?)

Whatever strange reason Samsung have for calling CEC Anynet+, it’s the same strange reason that Sony have for calling it Bravia Sync. And every other manufacturer giving it a proprietary name also.

Thank goodness ARC isn’t called Bravia Audio Return by Sony, Anynet+ Reverse Sound Experience by Samsung, and so on.

But then ARC is standard; and though CEC ought to be, it’s rather loosely defined, and most manufacturers just implement a subset, and make judgements as to what some of the behaviours ought to be, and so cover themselves with a local name for their specific implementation.

Which is not guaranteed to work with anybody else’s, though it usually mostly does.

And yes, you need the devices at both ends of the HDMI cable with ARC on it to have CEC turned on, since ARC is negotiated over CEC, rather than in the normal HDMI negotiation, being an inexplicable afterthought in the HDMI standard that anyone who had ever plugged in a SCART connection could have told them was needed from day 1. But then the USA never had SCART 😞

However, there is no such thing as an HDMI cable that does not support ARC; despite HDMI cables predating ARC, ARC just uses a pair of pins that were always wired together, in even the earliest HDMI standard, despite how this wire was to be used being undefined, and left for future expansion.

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IamNic — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:38:02 GMT

Hello @royabrown2,

@royabrown2 schrieb:

(Why can’t I Quote any more?)

with the latest update of the Community, you now have to click the three dots next to the tool-bar to open up additional tools (including quoting).

I will talk to @Peter_S. to try to get them rearranged into a more logical order - I also miss some buttons in the "non-extended" view of the toolbar.

- Nic

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royabrown2 — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:49:58 GMT

Thanks, but three dots where? (I’m on an iPad)

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romipat — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:35:38 GMT

thanks Roya brown 2 but you long winded reply to my solution will just confuse matters .

basically Samsung seem to refer to CEC as Anynet+

Sony have referred to it as Bravia sync on thier Bravia tv's so if you have a Samsung soundbar and are not getting sound if you connect the bravia to the bar using arc then its because you havent enabled anynet+ on your Samsung soundbar then make sure its turned on. when you then connect the HDMI cable to the Sony Bravia TV you will get prompted to say do you want to enable Bravia sync say yes to this. and you can then later go into the bravia sync settings and decide if you want the Tv to turn the bar on or off and if you want to be able to control the volume of the soundbar using the Tv's remote too. Ihope this helps because both Samsung and Sony were pretty clueless when I tried to get help from them to fix this

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IamNic — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:01:25 GMT

Hello @royabrown2,

I just noticed that the "menu-bar" is broken on the mobile site.

I will notify @Peter_S. about this issue, since he needs to look into this.

- Nic

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romipat — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:04:51 GMT

Just a suggestion but instead of hijacking this thread can you start one about the menu bar being broken because that has nothing to do with this particular thread or issue ??

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royabrown2 — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:15:12 GMT

That’s OK, @romipat

I shan’t be troubling your thread any more, or indeed any thread you start.

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romipat — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:38:55 GMT

your call btw you wernt offering any suggestions or help, you hijacked a thread and started talking about a completely different and unrelated issue which is not good etiquette. I merely suggested thst you start a new thread about that issue. You've obviously taken some sort of offence to my courteous suggestion and I cant help or change that so that's fine.

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royabrown2 — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:23:29 GMT

@romipat

(I know I am breaking my promise by replying, but.....)

You asked a thing of me, and I went much further than you asked in promising never to darken your threads again. Which ought to make you happy, shouldn’t it?

And no I didn’t take offence at your courteous suggestion. But if you review the thread, you might find your earlier discourtesy to me, relating to an on-topic post of mine.

Though even there, I did not take offence; just noted, sadly, that further discussion with you was unlikely to be profitable for either of us 😞

Though, as ever, we must remember that the thread will likely by read by others, now and in the future; and I may hope that they find something of value in what I posted, even though you didn’t.