RE: OT: Optical and coaxial digital outputs for PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS and MPEG

["Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>]

A challenge... ok I will bite, on a DTS connection via coax/phono fudge I
hear nothing, over the digital lead, I hear DTS sound. I think even a
non-audophile might pick that one up :)

Seriously though, I guess it depends on the equipment, but my DVD player at
least will not send a DTS signal over anything but the optical connection,
but I was quite happy with a simple phono lead running my digital sound in
the pre DTS days. My optical lead didn't cost that much anyway (bought from
M*****s, poss on offer at the time).

Mark.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 December 2001 09:08
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Optical and coaxial digital outputs for PCM,
Dolby
Digital, DTS and MPEG


I'll get stoned for saying this but use the coax digital connections as
optical cables don't work if they get "nipped" and if you're only
running a
couple of meters between the DVD player and amp then you can use just an
ordinary phono-phono lead. (I challenge anyone on this group to be reliably
able to tell the difference between an audio lead and a "digital"
cable over
a metre or two.)

Sony's Sky box supports digital audio out on an optical connector IIRC...

Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Dickson [mailto:sdickson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 December 2001 08:55
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Optical and coaxial digital outputs for PCM, Dolby
Digital, DTS and MPEG


Would one of you home cinema buffs be able to tell me what sort of cable I
need to connect my DVD player to a home cinema amp.

Both units are JVC and have both the optical and 'phono' type coaxial
connections on the back.  The amp/controller can be configured to accept
either or, as far as I know my sky box doesn't support this (I know sky are
trialing some DD at the moment, but my box only has stereo out 'phono'
style
sockets that I presume wont have the correct encoded bits), it's the pace
unit.  So what would be my best option to use for the DVD player - optical
or coax, and where night one get the correct cable/s -would I be correct in
assuming that an ordinary unshielded wired one will be 'bad'.

Thanks,

Steve

BTW anybody over this side of the pond wanting a Psion Wavefinder - PCworld
in Sprucfield have about a dozen left - Thanks, Michael.


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