SOS!!!

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum...or perhaps even the wrong site...but I need some ideas from the technologically inclined, and I know that all of you have surround sound systems at home.

I am new to audiophilia, but I enjoy it. My first pair of IEMs opened my eyes to your world, and I haven't looked back.

SOS = Save Our Surround sound

I moved back to NY after graduating law school and bought an apartment. After buying a new unit for the tv, etc., I hooked up my surround sound. It is a Panasonic setup, which will impress none of you.

For some reason, I cannot get the TV audio to feed through my surround sound speakers. I know that the setup is right; all that has changed is my source for cable: rather than a coax into the tv (the setup in law school) we have a Fios box. The main unit is connected via HDMI. I also know it's not the speakers, because sound from dvds plays through the system (the main unit has a player). The best way I can describe the problem is to say that, for whatever reason, the tv does not want to send audio to the surround sound; the dvd player sends video into the tv when appropriate, but the tv refuses to send the audio in the other direction. Interestingly enough, the tv and surround sound system are communicating as they normally would: when I trigger surround sound through the tv, it switches the surround sound system to auxilliary as it should. But still, no sound.

I would not be wasting your time if I were not desperate, but this is driving me crazy. If I have to waste bucks on another system my wife won't let me blow it on a set of cans. I am hoping one has run into this problem or can see some obvious flaw.

Any advice is much appreciated. And please

Thanks for moving the thread; thanks for the replies, all. I really appreciate this because I have been literally losing my mind. I am going to pm wantmyf1 and hopefully rectify this.

Thanks again, very much.