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I connected my Surface via HDMI to watch some movies on the home theater system, but I'm only hearing sound through the Surface speakers. How do I get audio to go through HDMI so that I can use my nice home theater sound system?
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Hi all.
I found probably a solution. When I connected the HDMI I only heard the sound in the surface and at the sound devices box the HDMI option won't appear, so I get in into Device Manager and Right click on my Surface and Scan for HW changes, then the sound starts to listen on the Home Theater. I expect this probably works in most of cases like me.
Regards.
Greetings all,
Please contact the manufacturer of you television for furthers support and possible firmware updates. This feature works with other TVs.
Use the Sound applet in control panel to check what audio devices are installed. If you have a choice make sure the right one is selected.
With 11 pages on this thread and it is already answered few are going to see your question and have you read it through and looked at the possible solutions? If you have then it might be better to start your own question.
Detail what you have tried and what your hardware is, with laptops because everything is on the motherboard getting audio onto the HDMI is normally inbuilt but with desktops it could be different. Even with a desktop if you are using an integrated HDMI/sound card then that is the same as a laptop but if you have a discrete graphics/sound interface then that requires different settings.
Don't you love a company that wants to blame a call and force you into buying an overpriced cable instead of admitting there is an issue and try to fix it?
As bas as Sony blaming your router, network speeds, congestion and interference on constantly buffering Netflix streaming, when in truth they route Netflix through their proxy servers to glean your viewing habits.
That said, it does stink 8.1 has made these become personal viewing tablets only. And it's a bit surprising it isn't considered an official bug and being worked on.
And Ali, even the Asus Infinity was about 150-200 less than the Surface RT with a Type Cover. Don't believe the street price of any android convertible came within 150 of SRT w/Type Cover. And again, street price as the SRT was rarely discounted until the fire sale on eBay where 10's of thousands were sold for $199 with the touch cover and the $180 without it. They probably sold well over 100,000 at a 200 and under price between Halloween and Christmas.
Oh so in addition to a product being discounted a year after release (like every single other mobile product), we're counting refurbished units and assuming numbers we think sold. Excellent. Also, buying the official cable does solve the problem for a lot of people due to the slanted connector. Seriously, lets get back on topic.
