New TV/Old Receiver : am I out of luck for onscreen volume display?

Factual Questions
1

I just bought a new TV. This one, to be exact.

I have an old (circa 1995) receiver and 5.1 speaker system.

With my old TV (also circa 1995), there was a way to hook it up so that when you turned the volume up/down on the receiver, there was an on-screen video display that showed you where you are. Other receiver functions - like changing the surround sound settings - also showed up.

With my new setup, I can’t figure out how to enable that. I’ve done some reading, and it appears it may be limitation of HDMI.

I’ve got the latest Tivo and a brand new Blu-Ray DVD player hooked up to the TV, both HDMI. I get sound by running an output from the TV itself to the receiver. The receiver is an Onkyo TXSV444. It has various output jacks, and I’ve tried hooking some of them up to various video input on the TV, but no luck. I think this is how my previous TV displayed the receiver info, but I’m not sure.

Any ideas? I can live with no on-screen volume indicators, but it’s kind of a pain.

2

IIRC, the receiver was putting an overlay on the video output. Since you are no longer running video through the receiver, no overlay.

I don’t know if newer receivers with HDMI switching do the same overlay trick.

3

Did it look like the normal TV volume control display when this receiver volume display happened or was it noticably different?

4

It was different. It was definitely something from the receiver; there were also other things the receiver would occasionally put on the screen, like when you changed the surround mode.

I’m guessing that jasg is correct; because I want to run the Tivo & DVD player via HDMI, and my receiver doesn’t support HDMI, I might be out of luck for the onscreen displays. That said, for some reason, I’m thinking that I didn’t run the video through the receiver on my old setup - I just ran the audio - and there was a way to hook it up so the onscreen displays worked (I do have a video cable labeled “receiver to TV”). Does that make any sense at all? I’m hardly an expert in this stuff, I just plug things in where it seems they should go and hope they work.