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[Hcameron3]

Please help. I have tried all the advice from Internet searches and nothing has worked. I am trying to set my TV so that it comes on as Hdmi and I don't need to change it using the old remote, hence needing 2 remote controls. Hdmi control, in settings, is on. My model is KDL-20S2030.

[LightFoot]

Hi @Hcameron3 

Which device is not switching to its correct HDMI?  If HDMI is set up correctly on your connected device' then switching it on should turn the TV on and change it to the correct HDMI port.

I have just looked up your TV and see that it is circa 2007. They certainly knew how to make long lasting TVs in those days.

[royabrown2]

@LightFoot @Hcameron3 

Indeed so. I wonder when Sony forgot how?

And this TV was so forward looking, too. TechRadar were watching Wimbledon on BBC HD on it in 2008, and it hasn’t even got a DVB-T2 tuner. Via Sky, or Virgin, or some test transmission?

Bit of a stretch to call it an Android TV though 😛

[Hcameron3]

It's a great TV thank you. I genuinely needed advice, not patronising comments about my tele. 

[LightFoot]

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@Hcameron3 wrote:

It's a great TV thank you. I genuinely needed advice, not patronising comments about my tele. 

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Hi @Hcameron3 

Just in case you are not aware, this is a community of customers trying to help other customers (this is not Sony customer support).

The Android TV comment is because you have posted your question in the Android community, and you don't have an Android TV. The correct community is Other TVs.

Please note that you haven't answered the question, what is the connected device that is not implementing the correct HDMI Control protocol?

It has to be said that finding a fellow customer with the same TV is extremely unlikely.

[Hcameron3]

I am aware this is for customers thank you, yes. I didn't answer the question as I didn't understand it fully. It is obviously not our main television. Not everyone is as technically aware as you, hence why this site was set up. I didn't know what an android TV was either so I guessed. Thank you so much for putting me right so kindly. This is a SUPPORT site by the way. I will not be asking for help again. 

[LightFoot]

Hi @Hcameron3 

You could try Sony Support: Sony Support Consumer Electronics

[royabrown2]

@Hcameron3  

(a) I think what you are trying to do is work out how, when the TV is switched on, to have it come up on the AV6 (HDMI)  input, instead of broadcast TV.

(b) I think what @LightFoot is thinking you want to do is have the TV turn on to AV6 (HDMI) when you turn on an HDMI device connected to AV6.

(c)  Hence some confusion when he asks you what the connected equipment is.

As far as I can tell from the manual for your TV:-

(a) you can’t do because there is no provision for it;

(b) you can’t do because it needs a thing called Bravia Sync, Sony’s implementation of CEC, and this possibly only appeared on later Sony TVs; at least, it is not mentioned in the manual.

Regarding (c), I see the confusion, but as you will probably know from your main TV, the idea is that you switch on one of possibly several devices you have connected to the TV, and the TV changes to that input and shows the signal from the device you switched it on with.

Although your 2030 has only one HDMI input, that is the sixth of the available AV inputs. And I would suspect that firing up an analogue video recorder connected to a SCART on the TV would turn on the TV and autoswitch the TV to that input, via an analogue method.

It’s just that the means to do this digitally on the HDMI isn’t mentioned in your manual, and may not have been implemented on it, though it has been in the HDMI standard since HDMI 1.0

But if you do have it, then the way to use it is as above; have the TV in standby, turn on the connected device, ensuring that it has CEC enabled, and it should turn the TV on, with AV6 selected.

If we knew what the connected device was, we could tell you if it has CEC or not; and if it is not a Sony product, the name that that manufacturer uses for CEC,

[Hcameron3]

Thank you for helping. Your answer (a) is correct. I hadn't realised the TV was so old and I think that's the problem. 

[royabrown2]

@Hcameron3 

2006, judging by the manual. I remember, if not that exact model, the Sony TVs from that time; HDMI such a new-fangled thing that it was relegated to AV6, the last of the AV options.

I had a couple of bedroom TVs, linked with SCART Digisenders, to a Sky box that also fed into a Sony AV setup, in the lounge of our Spanish apartment, one Sony we bought, one Samsung left by the previous occupant, when Samsung was a weird and unknown name.

In those mostly SCART and pre-HDMI days, Sony really didn’t know how an AV system should be set up; besides the description on the Sony manual, there was a UK leaflet suggesting we did it differently; and the third way was how I actually did it.

In those analogue days, signals were completely bidirectional; play to the TV, record from the TV, whatever you wanted. Then, suddenly, with digital, recording from the TV was a no-no; and at first, they threw the audio baby out with the digital bathwater.

It took ages before ARC was used to put this right.

So TVs of your vintage are still going strong, and TVs from 2012 onwards likewise, but there’s a gap in the middle where digital TVs without ARC were made, and now aren’t much good to anyone.