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Old 11-01-2008, 12:43
dorgo
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I have this 5.1 home cinema system

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/p...=specification

it is connected by the hdmi to the tv

and i want to connect it to my sky+ box to utilise the dolby on the movies, the only other free connections is the scart out to the tv and the "Digital Media Port"

my question is this, could i connect them both together by using the digital optical out of the sky+ box to this digital media port, is the such a connector and where can i get one if it exists.

thanks in advance
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Old 11-01-2008, 13:01
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The DAV DZ-230 does not support either optical or coaxial digital audio input - so basically, it will not act as a surround sound amp or receiver. It is just a DVD player with its own speakers attached.

I doubt very much whether you will be able to connect any digital audio to it and get it to decode the DD or DTS signal it receives - normally on these pieces of kit the DD decoder is built into the DVD player rather than the amplifier part of the system, and therefore will not decode DD or DTS from anything other than DVDs that it itself is playing.

Given that it also does not have an optical or coaxial out, so you can't even feed the audio from it to a "real" AV amp or receiver enforces this idea.

Basically, what you have got is something that can decode what it itself is playing, but it will not accept input from anything else, or provide output to anything else that supports Dolby Digital or DTS digital encoding.

If it is a fairly new piece of kit I would consider returning it to wherever you got it from under the premise that it doesn't allow you to connect anything else to it, and replace it with a proper DVD player and a proper AV receiver which will allow you to connect the DVD player, your Sky+ system, and also your TV, VCR, Freeview box, games console and any other piece of AV equipment you like to it.

This digital media port thing, whatever it is, may allow you to connect your Sky box to it using standard stereo RCA cables, in which case you will (may) get Dolby Pro-Logic sound out of it - which will be a form of surround sound. But you won't get real DD5.1 or DTS out of it - that is, where the audio from a Sky+ movie has its audio sent to six separate and discrete speakers.
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Old 11-01-2008, 13:51
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a very sound piece of advice for Broadz - take it back. Like so many of these one-box solutions, they are not solutions! Only problems as the often have no external sound connectivity.

Get something like this
http://www.richersounds.co.uk/showpr...=SONY-STRDE400
or this
http://www.richersounds.co.uk/showpr...id=YAMA-RXV361
from richer sounds if tou are on a budget and find some seperate speakers (even as cheap as these will sound better than the one-box system)
http://www.richersounds.co.uk/showpr...id=YAMA-NSP110
and you have more power and loads of connectivity.
Yes, you'll need a seperate DVD player but these are really cheap, too.

Rgds,
Scorp
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