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Originally Posted by Dmax 
OK then. Apologies if this is going to be long but maybe it will help someone. First point - you should not be connecting anything with a coaxial/antenna/RF cable past the cable going into your cable box.
Second, Your remotes - The Cable Box remote controls which channel you are on and turns the cable box on and off. Some people leave the cable box on all the time. Your TV remote controls the sound volume and turns the TV on and off. If you haven't already, you can program the cable box remote to turn your TV on and off and to control the TV's volume. You may still want to use the TV's remote when switching inputs, from cable box to VCR, for example.
I don't know if you have a Standard Definition cable box from TW or their HD box. If you don't have an HD box you should exchange yours for one at one of the Time Warner walk-in service centers. I don't think TW charges anything extra and you have an HD TV so there is no reason not to get one. You should also consider and HD-DVR box which can potentially replace your VCR but TW used to charge $10 extra per month for it.
If you have an HD compatible box from TW then you should be connecting it to your TV through an HDMI cable. It's a single cable that carries both HD video and audio signals and has small rectangular looking plugs on both ends. Time Warner HD boxes will have a single HDMI out connector. Use that to connect to one of your Sony TV's "HDMI in" connectors (your TV should have between 2 and 4 of those, labeled HDMI1, HDMI2, etc..). If you didn't have a VCR, which you can replace with a Time Warner HD-DVR box or a HD Tivo + a cable card, btw, that would be all you would need to do as far as connections.
More a little later.
Second, Your remotes - The Cable Box remote controls which channel you are on and turns the cable box on and off. Some people leave the cable box on all the time. Your TV remote controls the sound volume and turns the TV on and off. If you haven't already, you can program the cable box remote to turn your TV on and off and to control the TV's volume. You may still want to use the TV's remote when switching inputs, from cable box to VCR, for example.
I don't know if you have a Standard Definition cable box from TW or their HD box. If you don't have an HD box you should exchange yours for one at one of the Time Warner walk-in service centers. I don't think TW charges anything extra and you have an HD TV so there is no reason not to get one. You should also consider and HD-DVR box which can potentially replace your VCR but TW used to charge $10 extra per month for it.
If you have an HD compatible box from TW then you should be connecting it to your TV through an HDMI cable. It's a single cable that carries both HD video and audio signals and has small rectangular looking plugs on both ends. Time Warner HD boxes will have a single HDMI out connector. Use that to connect to one of your Sony TV's "HDMI in" connectors (your TV should have between 2 and 4 of those, labeled HDMI1, HDMI2, etc..). If you didn't have a VCR, which you can replace with a Time Warner HD-DVR box or a HD Tivo + a cable card, btw, that would be all you would need to do as far as connections.
More a little later.
I am w/ you on all this - thnx. Coaxil/antenna/RF cable is the round white one w/ the single recessed small thin wire-like connector, yes? This is the connection from cable wire into cable box (nowhere else). I think i've got the remotes figured out. Am pissed about 'guide' format, but suppose I will just learn #s of channels we use. Will check to see if our cable box is HD and examine for HDMI connections. I seem to rmember 4 of the colored round 'plugs' (red, green, yellow, white?), but am not sure about HDMI connector
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim
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High pitched whining might be a number of things. Loose connections, electrical interference between the cable box/dvr and the tv, faulty grounding, etc. Start by moving your cable box/dvr. away from the tv. You shouldn't have to move it to another room, just try moving it a few feet away first.
Do you have a surge protector or are all these things just plugged right into your wall?
High pitched whining might be a number of things. Loose connections, electrical interference between the cable box/dvr and the tv, faulty grounding, etc. Start by moving your cable box/dvr. away from the tv. You shouldn't have to move it to another room, just try moving it a few feet away first.
Do you have a surge protector or are all these things just plugged right into your wall?
TS - I was thinking it might be some type of grounding problem, and will check connections. Unfortunately, the way everything is set up prohibts much movement. TV and DVR/box are plugged into wall - best ot use a strip/surge supressor?
