Best Buy finaly delivered my panasonic 54v10 last week ( Only took 2 months) I also purchased a Denon 3310 from 6th ave

I have spent the last 2 nights hooking it all up I am not familiar with the new technology. All my other equimpent is 14 years old. So this new Denon reciever is a little intimidating

My question is this?? Is there any way to set it up so I get cable tv & sound directly from the tv with out turning on the reciever

I have it set up with the hdmi going from cable box to reciever to tv

Thank you

Larry

Not unless you make secondary connections (usually L&R analog) directly from the devices to the TV. Then you'll have to connect their video to the TV too. You'll have one video input which gets the picture as switched by the receiver, and other inputs for each device. When not using the receiver the TV will pick what you're seeing/hearing, but the receiver will do that when it's on. It'll really complicate things.

Most people just forget about the speakers in the TV (mine have never been attached in the first place), and listen through the receiver full time. Is there a particular reason you don't want to do that?

Chris has it right, but I would disagree that it is too complicated. I had my TV set up this way so that Input 1 was through the audio system, but Input 2 was for use with the TV alone. It certainly increases the number of wires but you can use the component output to have HD on both inputs.

but I agree, always using the Home Theater is more simple to use, less expensive b/c you need less wires, and sounds a lot better.

I was hoping to have this option to keep it simple for th wife & kids I can just see them pushing something on the remote that they have no idea how th fix

What about an hdmi spliter

I think the first option would be easier than a HDMI splitter. Just tell them to select input 1 when they watch TV. No problem, TV gets sound and pic from box. When you want to watch it in HT, select input 2 and turn on the AVR. A universal remote with macro like a Harmony 890 would also make it easy. have a family button that selects Input 1 and a HT button that turns on the AVR and selects Input 2, etc.

The Denon 3310 should have the capability to pass thru the HDMI signal while in standby mode (my Denon 1909 does). This way the TV video and audio come thru without having to power on the AVR.
Check for a setting for 'HDMI control' or something along those lines. Otherwise hook up the STB via component and analog audio to the TV.

I was just looking at the back of the cable box it has a hdtv section with a 3cable setup red blue green & audio L&R should I just run this to the back of the tv to component2 (component1 has my dvd player) or input1

You can connect it were ever there's an available component input on the TV. Just remember which one it is because that's what you'll want to select to see the cable box.

But yeah, the RGB+LR is a good connection to use, it'll get you pretty good picture quality.

I was hoping it would pass it through I will check the hdmi settings

Thanks for the help

Well, there is your fix. No need to go beyond the built in solution.

IIRC, the AVR needs to be on 'standby' and not 'off' for HDMI passthrough. A technicality, but it does make a difference.

That's cool that the Denon has that feature. I can set my Pioneer to "Through", but it doesn't happen automatically when I turn it off.

Though I wonder how the components connected to it, will like the disappearance of some of the supported sound formats, and the change of the connected device name in the EDID. I guess most should renegotiate, but if you have any manual setting you may lose sound.

Here's a neat setup guide for Denon users. You should be able to pass video and audio through your receiver while in standby mode.

Batpigs Denon-To-English Dictionary

I spoke to Denon they told me to turn On the hdmi control in the setup menue under hdmi settings

So I put the reciever in standby mode and I got distorted flashes of video on for a few seconds then off for a few seconds almost like the signal was week

So now what I guess I will call denon

Just wanted to let you know that it was the hdmi cable (that the cable company provided) was the cause of the problem I guess it was not a 1.3a cable

Finaly hooked up the center channel & rear speakers and I am in the process of learning the reciever setup

I'm glad it turned out to be something simple like that.

Yeah, sometimes we get carried away and don't mention to start with the simple things to check first.

Usually, I'm the one who thinks of simple things....