I recently purchased a new Samsung Blue Ray player. My previous Sony DVD player used the blue,green, red cords plugged into DVD imput, and I used Coaxial for sound. The Blue Ray only uses HDMI, which the receiver does not have, or Optical. When I plug Optical in, I can only get sound on Video 1 and not on DVD where the picture is shown. In a nutshell, it is either awesome sound no picture or great picture and no sound.. Suggestions???

If you have the receiver on the dvd input, you cannot use a optical audio input for sound. If you want sound on the dvd input you need to hookup a coaxial line for the digital audio. That or hookup the dvd player to the video 1 input on the receiver. This model has 3 digital audio inputs, Video 1-(optical), Video 2-(optical), & DVD- (Coaxial) If you have the receiver on the dvd input, you cannot use a optical audio input for sound. If you want sound on the dvd input you need to hookup a coaxial line for the digital audio. That or hookup the dvd player to the video 1 input on the receiver. This model has 3 digital audio inputs, Video 1-(optical), Video 2-(optical), & DVD- (Coaxial)

Also, If you want surround sound through the receiver, simply hook the HDMI to the TV and turn on the BD's HDMI settings to audio mute so no audio is output through the hdmi, then hook up an optical or coaxial to the receiver. Also, If you want surround sound through the receiver, simply hook the HDMI to the TV and turn on the BD's HDMI settings to audio mute so no audio is output through the hdmi, then hook up an optical or coaxial to the receiver.