Solved! How to get Toshiba (32AV500U) with optical audio into my Vizio sound bar?

[danielwannal]

I have a Toshiba (32AV500U) and when I connect my sound bar through the optical cable I can't hear any sound coming out of of the sound bar. It says it is set to PCM however it is grayed out and I can't change it. Well I at lest haven't figured out how to change it. I am using HDMI for video. Assistance with this would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Muadib]

Which model soundbar do you have. Vizio has made many.

 

[danielwannal]

Vizio SB2920-d6

Which model soundbar do you have. Vizio has made many.

 

[Muadib]

Did you try a different toslink cable? Did you try the digital coax input? What about the analog rca input? Do you get sound from either of them?

 

[danielwannal]

I finally got it to work. The sound bar was just on the wrong input. I did try changing the inputs before but I guess I didn't leave it on the input long enough for the sound to kick in. See attached image if anyone needs to know the input in the future. Plus hear is a link to the manual. https://cdn.vizio.com/documents/sb2920d6/qsg-sb2920d6.pdf

Thank you all so much for looking into this. I really appreciate it!

Did you try a different toslink cable? Did you try the digital coax input? What about the analog rca input? Do you get sound from either of them?

 

[Muadib]

Glad you got it!! Welcome to AT!!

 

[MtnMan]

Getting HDMI-ACR working initially seems to be a real PIA, and based on my searches trying to resolve mine, across many (most?) brands of TV's, and AV Receivers/soundbars.

I replaced a Visio 55" TV that was probably 6+ years old. Still worked fine, but wanted an upgrade, without breaking the bank. Hisense 65H8F fit the bill. 65" 4K well below $600.

I have a Onikyo AV Receiver, 7 speakers, works and sounds great. I had been using ARC via the HDMI cable to he receiver, works great.

New Hisense wouldn't see it, even had ARC grayed out as a speaker choice. At some point the ARC was active, but would immediately revert back to TV speakers. Everything I read in the manual, and found on several sites matched my settings. Also went into all settings in the Onikyo, looked like it should work, but didn't.

Turned it all off to stop for dinner, and it all worked when I turned it back on.

Same feeling I get when trying to setup printing on a computer.