It seems to me that once you have the HDMI set up through an AVR the audio is set to "amp" and once this happen the audio portion is no longer sent to the TV whether the AVR is on or off. You would have to turn on the AVR change the HDMI audio setting to "TV" then turn the AVR back off.


Jason
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