Help on connecting Panasonic system sought

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Hi, I will greatly appreciate advice on the following issue:

I just bough Panasonic TX-P65VT20 3D TV, and Panasonic DMP-BDT300 Blu-ray player. I also own a home theatre system consisting of a Sony STR-DA50ES receiver (which does not have HDMI connections) and four B&W speakers (I don't have the centre one, because my old Sony projector TV's loudspeaker acted like a centre speaker when connected to the receiver). I connected the Blu-ray to the TV using a HDMI 1.4 cable, and with four analogue 5.1 cables to the Sony, and it works well.

But the problem is with the satellite tuner. When I connected it to the TV using a HDMI cable, the TV was passing only PCM to the Sony receiver, not Dolby Digital. But when I connected the tuner additionally to the Sony receiver using an optical cable, the sounds from the TV and from the receiver were "overlapping" (like an echo) which was terrible to listen to. Of course, I can mute the sound on the TV (and the sound bar), and listen only to the sound of the receiver, but then the dialogues are unclear, coming from all corners.

What should I do:

A. Make changes in connections to allow the TV to pass Dolby Digital sound from the satellite tuner to the Sony receiver?

B. Discard the sound bar and buy a central speaker?

B. Replace the old Sony with a new 3D receiver (an expensive option)?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Messiah]

A - Generally TVs will only output in stereo so I do not think it will pass the sound through, as you have noticed.

B - I would go with this option whilst saving up for C.

C - you would still need to get a centre.

 

[Anonymous]

Messiah, thanks, I also thought so.

Rgds