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Old 04-01-2006, 02:30
bromsgrove
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Hi Guys.

I have bought a philips LCD TV (HD enabled) with virtual dolby. it is superb.

I have a set up question, relating to EXT1 socket. My set up has a Sky+ box, and a dvd/video combi, all linked by Scarts. All work fine.

When receiving pictures through the RF, I can select Dolby Virtual & Nicam (I'm aware that Nicam is only displayed on RF signal).

When I go through EXT1 on Sky+, I just have the option of "spacial" or mono sound.

Does anyone know if this would also be vitual dolby, or do I need to connect the Sky+ box to the TV by use of Digital Optical Audio cable (whatever one of those is??)

Thanks a lot.
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Old 04-01-2006, 07:40
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If the TV has an optical input, you might get better sound if you use that.

Optical cables are also known as Toslink. It's a thin fibreoptic cable, with a squareish black plastic plug at each end.
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Old 04-01-2006, 08:15
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I really dont think it will make any difference - my Sony amp processes a 2 channel signal from any source and can apply prologic processing without using an optical cable (I have optical cables from DVD and Sky+ for full DD 5.1 processing).

More to the point, I'm surprised to see you mentioning putting an RF signal into an LCD Tvwith the Sky+ set up you have - unless this is just to illustrate a piont regarding the Dolby sound iisue?

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Old 05-01-2006, 02:19
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Originally Posted by Scorpio
I really dont think it will make any difference - my Sony amp processes a 2 channel signal from any source and can apply prologic processing without using an optical cable (I have optical cables from DVD and Sky+ for full DD 5.1 processing).

More to the point, I'm surprised to see you mentioning putting an RF signal into an LCD Tvwith the Sky+ set up you have - unless this is just to illustrate a piont regarding the Dolby sound iisue?

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I seem to have wires and Scarts all over the place, I have always put an RF into the TV, it seems to complete the loop somehow. Perhaps i should rewire it all again.

I suppose the thing that is confusing me is that when I play via Sky and the EXT circuit, it doesn't tell me the kind of sound I am receiving, although it still sounds pretty good to the ears.
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Old 05-01-2006, 07:57
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Sky does not send out 'nicam' sound as such from its scart lead - it's stereo PCM I thnk so you wont see the nicam logo, only over RF.

OK, your set up

VCR/DVD AV2 ---> Sky VCR scart
Sky TV scart ---> TV AV1

EXT RF aerial ---> sky RF in (for collecting Sky RF signal)
sky RF out ---> VCR RF in (for recording RF)
VCR RF out ---TV (only to be used in emergency, lol)

watch DVD, VCR, Sky via TV AV1 (all scart)
use RF for recording Sky or terrestrial ONLY when you are using the Sky box to watch another channel via AV1.

To record Sky (including other digital BBC/ITV channels) set VCR to AV2. If you use video+ remember to set channel to AV2 not 1,2,3,4 etc and to put Sky box on appropriate channel.

If you want to know a bit more about autoview and automatically kicking off a recording on your VCR come back after youve had a little play.

RF should not be used for viewing as it will be bad on your LCD.

As all the sound processing is in your TV (and you dont have full 5.1) just let the scart feed the sound as in set up above.

Of course, RF will also carry sound .............but we're not going to use this are we..lol?

Give this a go............only 4 cables, easy!

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Old 06-01-2006, 03:15
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Thanks Scorpio, I will try it and revert
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