Solved! Hello - new to the site and I would appreciate some help if possible

[DJO907]

My friend owns a Westinghouse VR- 5535Z tv and a Sony Blue-Ray Disc/DVD Home Theatre System model BDV-E870 . When he watches DVDs the Sony System by-passes the weaker sounding tv speakers and plays through the Sony system which sounds great but upon watching television shows the sound only comes through the tv speakers .
He would like to by-pass the tv speakers altogether . Is this possible with his current components ? Has he simply connected the system wrong ? Any remedy to his problem ?
Thank you in advance for any guidance you may offer .
Thank you ,
Dan

 

[hang-the-9]

No way to know if he connected the system wrong since you did not mention how it was connected.

In most TVs you need to change the audio from internal speaker to whatever connection is being used from the TV options. The Sonly system does not actually "bypass" the speakers, it just never sends the audio signal to the TV to play since it uses it's build in speakers and processing. When you watch from the TV, the audio is played on the TV only, the Sony system has no idea what is going on outside of it, so you need to swap the TV audio out to use the Sony system audio with whatever inputs it has to connect it to the TV.