Time Warner Cable box and HDMI cable (turn on, connect, Comcast)

[joanchris2000]

After tiring of hearing DH complain about the picture on our living room TV, ("the picture on the tv in the bedroom is much better...")
I bought an HDMI cable, since it was only hooked up with the regular cable hookup. Now the picture is MUCH better, but the volume control isn't working right...we can only change the volume through the TV, when I try to change the settings through the cable box it just says "fixed" for volume control, and won't let me go over and change it.
Has anyone had this happen? Is this the only way it can work now, by changing the volume through the TV? It's just a pain switching from cable to change channels to TV to change the volume. (mode-tv-vol up-mode-cable-channel up/down-(now the vol is too high)-mode-tv-vol down, etc)

[Bo]

I've only ever had my cable box hooked up via HDMI and I've never been able to control the volume from the box itself. So I'd say that the symptom and the cable are connected.

One workaround might be to use a store-bought programmable remote. It could probably adjust the volume on the TV in the same mode as it controls the cable box.

[eggalegga]

I don't have Time Warner cable and I've never heard of this being an issue with any tv/cable remote. Perhaps it's the way you've got the cables plugged in to each component. Will your cable company provide some over the phone tech support or will they want to charge you to send a tech out? Do you know any teenagers? If you do, call them. They can figure out all kinds of technical challenges. Plus, they love the opportunity to make us older folks feel stupid. ha ha

Good luck.

[SATX_GUY]

Had the same problem when switching to HDMI on TWC, call them you need to set it up properly with them (in the cablebox menus) . Also make sure your TV is set to HDMI Audio.

-Steve

[NHDave]

This issue is normal, your supposed to be controlling the TV volume, not the cable box volume. You need to look at the manual for the remote, with mine (comcast) there is a setting that forces the volume control to always change the TV volume no matter what device the remote is set to.

[ATG1956]

To all who have a problem changing volume on the cable box when using HDMI: Step 1. Turn off the cable box. Step 2. Unplug the HDMI cable from the box. Step 3. Connect the TV using coaxial cable (the old fashion way). Step 4. Adjust the Volume on the cable box to about 80% high. Step 5. Turn off the cable box. Step 6. Reconnect HDMI cable. Step 7. Now you can control the volume using only TV Volume control or the programmed Cable Control.

[thundernugs]

F. Program the Volume Controls.
By following the steps below, you can program the volume controls
(Volume UP, Volume Down and MUTE) to your TV, VCR and Audio.

The default volume control settings on the remote control is TV volume
control. If you wish you can control the volume via your cable box or audio
equipment.

Use the following steps to change the volume control settings:

STEP1 Press the [CBL] button and the [SELECT] button simultaneously
for 3 seconds. The [CBL] device LED will turn on.
*Tip : The device LED will light on for 20 seconds. The next step must
be entered while the LED is on.

STEP2 Press the [ VOL + ] button.

STEP3 Press the [ CBL ], [ AUD ]
(whichever applicable) button.
The [CBL] device LED will blink twice to confirm the
programming.

To return to original state:
If you wish to restore the TV volume control in CABLE mode, repeat the
above steps by pressing [ TV ] button in STEP3 .