Simple audio question (I think)

Thanks everyone for answering this question which I think is fairly simple. I have a new TV that I use as the monitor for my computer and connect my Itv to. Currently I have both the cable, my computer and ITV hooked up through HDMI. Whenever I switch between the different HDMI inputs I obviously do not continue getting the sound out from my ITV. The question is I would like to be able to leave my ITV running while it is playing music to my stereo and surf the internet with my computer output on the screen. I know I could obviously play Itunes on my computer however the ITV seems to have much better output quality. Anyone has a solution for this?
I look forward to your answers. Have a great day and thanks again.
Message was edited by: mameares

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Not without some other device to feed audio through. Your tv will only play from one input at a time, when you switch to the input from your mac/pc, it will always cut off the audio from other inputs.

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