Cant select audio when using HDMI cable on HDTV

[Mr Tony]

OK this is odd and hopefully someone can shine a lite on this

Have the Pansat 9200 hooked to my Panasonic plasma through HDMI cable. When I select left or right audio on the Pansat it wont select just that. Kinda a pain on some channels where they have the L & R out of phase (like KWTO 2) or some channels that are L or R only

Am I right that you cant change audio to L or R only when using a HDMI cable?

 

[updatelee]

many irds pass ac3 direct without any parsing. ie dreambox you can only select left/right when using the rca cables. when using the optical cable you get what the provider sends.

I also have a panasonic plasma, but havent looked, can you select the balance on the tv ?

 

[Mr Tony]

yeah I can do that but the issue is some channels (feeds) are only one side so it sounds weird to hear it only out the left side

bummer....

 

[Corrado]

Does the TV itself have a mono audio setting? My old TV could be selected that way. I used to run into a similar scenario when viewing old analog feeds. The VC2 audio was fine but some non VC only had one audio channel.

 

[Mr Tony]

nope no mono setting on the TV