Optical Out

[jonphil]

Anyone connected Tivo up with the optical out yet?

Just wondering if there's an option in the menu for setting a optical out delay.
Or I'm really hoping that unlike the Sky box, the Tivo boxes output the full 5.1 sound via the HDMI connection which won't suffer with audio delay?

[alextegg]

I really hope so, seems very dumb to support hdmi without full sound support.

[jonphil]

Sky did it :) lol
I assume if it's £D then it must be HDMI 1.4? so hopefully the full 5.1 sound has been implemented too.

[smokie]

I have TiVo connected optically to my home theatre but rarely use it, as the family don't like the surround sound! The unit I have (Panasonic IIRC) shows which channels are being receive and it doesn't show anything other than L and R on most Virgin channels, but on some HD music channels the whole array lights up - haven't tried any movie channels.

I can't see any configurable settings in the TiVo for optical sound, except one to do with if your decoder doesn't do something with Dolby. Sorry that's a bit vague!

[JayAy]

Sky did it :) lol
I assume if it's £D then it must be HDMI 1.4? so hopefully the full 5.1 sound has been implemented too.

Existing V+ HD box (non Tivo) support 5.1 over HDMI, so if the VM Tivo doesn't there will be another virtual riot

[ruperte]

Yes it works. There is a setting in Settings --> Audio, to set if it puts out full Dolby Digital sound or down mixes to PCM. I can watch my amp flicking from DD to Stereo etc on advert breaks :) You seem to get ordinary surround sound on the SD channels, and DD on the HD channels