eARC Stopped Working After Working Just Fine
ARC was working just fine for about three days and now all of the sudden it no longer works. It must have been an update because I turned the TV on and the speakers were set to "On" which I had prev...
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I "fixed" the problem, but it's not really fixed.
Basically if I have any other HDMI port in use the eARC will stop working.
If it's working and I plug in something through HDMI (in my case a blu ray player) it will continue to work until I turn the TV off.
When I turn the TV off the receiver does not power down (as it should)
And when I turn the TV back on... doesn't work.
If I keep everything else unplugged from HDMI it works just fine. Which explains why it was working and then stopped (I bought a Blu Ray player)
Sigh.
This has been the only solve that's worked for me. ARC worked fine for 8 months with my new receiver, then just suddenly stopped. Did a factory reset on the TV, replaced the HDMI cord, no luck. Unplugged the other 3 HDMI inputs--bingo. Suddenly it's working again. I've power cycled a few times since and tried different variations of plugging them back in (just one, all three, with TV power off, with receiver power off, etc), but as soon as I turn the TV off and back on again, I have to have every other HDMI unplugged or ARC doesn't work. And its like magic--as soon as I unplug them, ARC works again.
So frustrating...
