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Digital to Analogue audio converter
suzieque
20-04-2012
Does anyone have knowlege on these, I am thinking of using one to feed the audio optical out from my tv to a analogue input on a a/v receiver.

This I beleive should work but if the tv was tuned into a hd channel ie BBC hd and the station was in 5.1 audio at the time, anything nasty happen??
chrisjr
20-04-2012
A D to A converter should work OK. As to what would happen with a HD channel using 5.1 is dependent on your TV. The best case scenario is the TV can convert 5.1 into a stereo feed. Worst case is the TV cannot do any conversion and the D-A unit attempts to interpret the 5.1 data as stereo! In that case mind your ears

Any decent D-A though should just mute if it is presented with a signal format it does not like.

By the way does your amp have any digital inputs? Would be an unusual AV amp that didn't (or is it a HiFi stereo amp?). If it has coaxial digital inputs (on a phono socket) then the easiest way to connect to the TV is to use an optical to coaxial converter. This keeps it all digital and let's the amp take care of decoding the audio format.
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