Hi All,
Just wondering if I could trouble someone for a moment please?
Yesterday this tv & home cinema system arrived and was set up.
Firstly, I have a HDMI cable coming in the post to connect the DVD player & TV together. Thought I'd mention this in case it has any implications later. For the moment it's connected via Scart!!
Anyway, the set looks lovely, and dvd's work great with teh surround sound. But as I have read about already, the sound only comes out of the tv speakers when watching virgin media (bog-standard digital not the V+/HD service...yet).
The TV has a socket on the back labelled "Digital Audio Out" and then labels it as "Optical" underneath. The DVD player has an "Optical Input" socket. If I were to buy a digital audio optical cable would that send the normal TV audio to the nice big speakers? (I know I wont get proper surround sound, but would like the sound I do have coming out of better speakers)
Next question, if the above would work, would the DVD player need to be ON rather than in Stand By for the sound to reach the speakers? If so does this mean having the leave the DVD player ON and manually switching back to normal TV?
Also, I'll be getting a PS3 set up next Tuesday (!!!) Am I right in think that needs to use Optical Out to get 5.1 surround sound?
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I want to make sure I get this right and might need to pop to Maplins for a cable at lunch time!
Many thanks in advance for any help/advice.
Alien28
Just wondering if I could trouble someone for a moment please?
Yesterday this tv & home cinema system arrived and was set up.
Firstly, I have a HDMI cable coming in the post to connect the DVD player & TV together. Thought I'd mention this in case it has any implications later. For the moment it's connected via Scart!!
Anyway, the set looks lovely, and dvd's work great with teh surround sound. But as I have read about already, the sound only comes out of the tv speakers when watching virgin media (bog-standard digital not the V+/HD service...yet).
The TV has a socket on the back labelled "Digital Audio Out" and then labels it as "Optical" underneath. The DVD player has an "Optical Input" socket. If I were to buy a digital audio optical cable would that send the normal TV audio to the nice big speakers? (I know I wont get proper surround sound, but would like the sound I do have coming out of better speakers)
Next question, if the above would work, would the DVD player need to be ON rather than in Stand By for the sound to reach the speakers? If so does this mean having the leave the DVD player ON and manually switching back to normal TV?
Also, I'll be getting a PS3 set up next Tuesday (!!!) Am I right in think that needs to use Optical Out to get 5.1 surround sound?
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I want to make sure I get this right and might need to pop to Maplins for a cable at lunch time!
Many thanks in advance for any help/advice.
Alien28

and reading up on whether there is a menu option on either TV or DVD to set either to only switch to the HDMI when a DVD is playing.