hdmi v/s toslink optical
leftwinger57
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HI guys, different topic entirely,
The way I originally set up my tv to avr was throuh HDMI cables. Now the
sound was great but it could not do 1 function which I really wanted.
I wanted to watch silent tv a ball game for instance and have tunes going at the same time. Yamaha said no, you'd have to split audio w/ other cables and video w/ the HDMI, and I wasn't pleased. At first I tried RCAs and the degradation was so noticeable it freaked me out . The a telco lineman on
the street just gave me 10FT TOSLINK optical and wow the differece was like
so noticeable to the absolute sound performance. Thanks to the telco guy and did take care of him.Question, any other way to go w/ what I want to do.
The way I originally set up my tv to avr was throuh HDMI cables. Now the
sound was great but it could not do 1 function which I really wanted.
I wanted to watch silent tv a ball game for instance and have tunes going at the same time. Yamaha said no, you'd have to split audio w/ other cables and video w/ the HDMI, and I wasn't pleased. At first I tried RCAs and the degradation was so noticeable it freaked me out . The a telco lineman on
the street just gave me 10FT TOSLINK optical and wow the differece was like
so noticeable to the absolute sound performance. Thanks to the telco guy and did take care of him.Question, any other way to go w/ what I want to do.
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So I take it you have one 1 connection: cable / dish hdmi -> avr -> TV? Probably the simplest thing to do would be to have a second set of cables (say component) going from the cable/dish box (i assume this is your TV source) directly to your TV. I used to do that so that I didn't have to have the AVR on to watch TV.Dali Optikon 1Mk2
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errrrr...ok.
What is going to be your source? and are you playing through speakers that are not on the TV? I guess the problem is going to be if you are running say the cable box through the AVR then the AVR to the TV to get the video but then want sound from a difference source say a CD player through the AVR its going to be kinda tricky.
You would have to A. Try and change the settings on the AVR to have say input A video-HDMI, sound-optical B (the CD player output to the AVR input).
second thing you could do is run the video from the cable box via HDMI straight to the TV then run the optical from the CD player to the AVR. You would only have the TV playing any sound from the cable box so you would have to still have another input using HDMI on the TV. so if you had 2 HDMI inputs on the TV you would be just fine, if you don't, get a HDMI switching box to get more inputs. All you would then have to do is turn off the TV volume and you would be fine. This honestly would be the easiest thing to do but depending on how much stuff you have hooked up and where the tunes your are listening to are coming from would be the only problem.
