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Old 02-14-2011, 02:19 AM   #1
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Optical Out

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?
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Old 02-14-2011, 02:34 AM   #2
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I really hope so, seems very dumb to support hdmi without full sound support.
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Old 02-14-2011, 02:43 AM   #3
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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.
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Old 02-14-2011, 04:44 AM   #4
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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!
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Old 02-14-2011, 05:14 AM   #5
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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

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Old 02-14-2011, 05:43 AM   #6
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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
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