Home Theater Speakers

g4m3rof1337

Active Member

• Jan 19, 2009

• #1

We're using DishNetwork, and have one HD DVR box in the living room, and the TV in my room is connected via coax to my wall, but my remote and stuff connected to the box in the living room. My TV and speaker receiver have an HDMI port on it, I was wondering if I could have my TV and 360 play audio through the HDMI cable, rather than getting the box in my room, or getting another one.


If so, how would I do this..




Thanks.

 

g4m3rof1337

Active Member

• Jan 21, 2009

• #2

Bump.

 

dark666apoc

New Member

• Jan 22, 2009

• #3

yes you can i have it setup on my dads surroudn sound and it jsut auto detected cahnge your tv to the input you want on hdmi and it should play
btw i optical connection is still better

 

g4m3rof1337

Active Member

• Jan 23, 2009

• #4

dark666apoc said:

yes you can i have it setup on my dads surroudn sound and it jsut auto detected cahnge your tv to the input you want on hdmi and it should play
btw i optical connection is still better

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Optical is better than HDMI? I usually use HDMI for my AppleTV, which carries over both the audio and video, instead of using the optical connection.



Anyways, thanks.

 

gamerman4

Active Member

• Jan 23, 2009

• #5

Optical and HDMI are both digital, there is no quality loss or interference. Your only limitation is bandwidth and HDMI has plenty so unless your audio is of an outrageously high bitrate which could max out the HDMI bandwidth, an optical cable would give no difference. Also, the HDMI 1.3 spec doubles the bandwidth (to 10.3 Gbps) so you can pretty much use a fully lossless audio signal and still have spare bandwidth.

 

newguy5

New Member

• Jan 23, 2009

• #6

yeah, no reason to switch to optical if you have hdmi, it has the same quality. that was the whole point of hdmi, to combine optical audio and component video in one.

 

dark666apoc

New Member

• Jan 24, 2009

• #7

optical is still clearer because of how it works but if you only want one cable to run from comp to tv then its still damn clear i jsut prefer optical for my surround sound

personal preference

 

g4m3rof1337

Active Member

• Jan 24, 2009

• #8

I'll give em both a try.



Thanks.

 

gamerman4

Active Member

• Jan 24, 2009

• #9

dark666apoc said:

optical is still clearer because of how it works

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optical toslink: 125 Mbit/s and no support for Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD or DTS HD audio streams.

HDMI 1.3: 10.2 Gbit/s and supports everything. 1080p pretty much maxes out at 3Gbit/s so HDMI technically would provide a much better audio experience.

 

Beyond

Active Member

• Jan 27, 2009

• #10

Optical/HDMI - Both digital. The DACs on the rest of your gear will take care of things. Do what's most convenient.