HDMI/ digital out question

strider
strider Posts: 2,568
edited November 2007 in Electronics
This may be an easy question, but I'm not sure of the answer. If I was going to hook up a DVD player via HDMI to a HD tv like this one, could I use it's digital coax output to get the sound into my AVR?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2007
    Yes. It's what I do.

    Though digital coax / optical don't have the same bandwidth as HDMI, so you can't get things like "TrueHD". Just DTS or less.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited November 2007
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Yes. It's what I do.

    Though digital coax / optical don't have the same bandwidth as HDMI, so you can't get things like "TrueHD". Just DTS or less.

    Sweet. I can live without TrueHD for the time being, just didn't want to get hit with an urgent need to upgrade my AVR after getting an Hd dvd player after getting an LCD and so on..

    Thanks, bobman!
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