today i bought a home cinema (dvd player & speakers 5.1) so the question is ...How do i connect my sky box to it to get the "surround sound" from that also??

Do i need another piece of equipment???

cheers
steve.

 

My surround sound system plugs into the tv through a scart socket, then you select TV on the surround system, and it plays whatever the telly is playing. Pretty sure IIRC that sky will only give out 2.1 sound though, so depending on what surround system you have then it may only work like this instead of simulating full surround!

 

Scart will only ever carry stereo audio - the .1 part will be applied by tha amplifier/audio processor in the surround system.

Steve, it depends how you connect stuff to the surround system. Does it have auxiliary inputs? If so, which type? Twin RCA/phono? Optical Digital? Coaxial Digital? Likewise, what audio outputs does your Sky box have? Twin RCA/phono? Optical Digital? Coaxial Digital?

Another point worth noting - not all Sky - in fact very little - will be in 5.1 surround sound. So if it's not being broadcast in 5.1 surround sound, then the amp won't be being fed 5.1 surround sound. Unless the surround sound processor in the amp can run in pseudo-mode and "create" a multichannel audio output, like how Pro-Logic works in most amps...

 

does it matter if you use the optical output?

i've got mine running from optical to optical sky to amp and the sounds is cracking (although the skyhd sound is a lot lower volume than normal sky+ (around 25% quieter)

is it supposed to be like this/

all the sound is carried via the hdmi cable to the telly and via optic cable to the amp

 

double post

 

The tv has a bank of red,white yellow conctions which arent being used, 1 spare HDMI.

But for what its worth the amp has 1 optical and twin red,white yellow(?) connections.

The optical is going from my amp in to the tv (42"plasma) and i have the HDMI from the amp to the tv aswell.

The Sky box has only a red and white bank of conections spare, it may have an optical but im getting the way of a dvd that the missus is watching and im pissing her off...a little



So does this make any sense at all lol.

 

Dojj - optical shouldn't "crackle" as it's a digital soundsource and is actually light as opposed to electrical pulses. Something is wrong there - either the lead, or the input or output on your devices.

Steve - If your Sky box doesn't have an optical or coaxial digital output then you will never get 5.1 surround sound from it. Red + white RCA's are stereo, the yellow is composite video.

The HDMI from the DVD/Surround will be transmitting the picture from the DVD/Surround to the TV. Does sound come out the TV speakers when you play a DVD, or is it only from the speakers connected to the DVD/Surround amp?

By the sounds of it, you won't be able to have both the TV and the Sky box plugged into the DVD/Surround if the DVD/Surround only has one set of RCA audio inputs (again, this is assuming that the red+white & yellow RCA's on the back of the DVD/Surround are inputs and not outputs) as you'd need two sets to plug in both the TV and the Sky box.

However, if you rarely use the TV's internal tuner (which is most likely either analogue ch1-5 or Freeview) and only watch Sky, then just connect the red+white RCA's from the Sky box to the DVD/Surround.

I take it the Sky is connected to the TV using Scart? If so then you will get audio through the TV speakers from the Sky box over the scart cable, so if you want the audio to come through the DVD/Surround only, you'd need to mute the TV speakers....

Does that all make sense?

 

it doesn't crakle mate, it's just alot quieter than the normal hdmi connection

not sure if anyone gets the same issues, i suppose i could take up valuable bandwidth asking the question eh

 

"The HDMI from the DVD/Surround will be transmitting the picture from the DVD/Surround to the TV. Does sound come out the TV speakers when you play a DVD, or is it only from the speakers connected to the DVD/Surround amp?"

Only through the dvd 5.1 speakers


"However, if you rarely use the TV's internal tuner (which is most likely either analogue ch1-5 or Freeview) and only watch Sky, then just connect the red+white RCA's from the Sky box to the DVD/Surround."

Assuming they are inputs on the dvd player? if so how to connect to the tv after being fed to the dvd?


"I take it the Sky is connected to the TV using Scart? If so then you will get audio through the TV speakers from the Sky box over the scart cable,"

Yes it is.


"Does that all make sense? "

Nope not one fookin bit lol

 

"The HDMI from the DVD/Surround will be transmitting the picture from the DVD/Surround to the TV. Does sound come out the TV speakers when you play a DVD, or is it only from the speakers connected to the DVD/Surround amp?"

Only through the dvd 5.1 speakers

Okay good, that means the HDMI is transmitting the picture ONLY to the TV and not audio aswell. This is what we want....
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"However, if you rarely use the TV's internal tuner (which is most likely either analogue ch1-5 or Freeview) and only watch Sky, then just connect the red+white RCA's from the Sky box to the DVD/Surround."

Assuming they are inputs on the dvd player? if so how to connect to the tv after being fed to the dvd?

If they are inputs on the DVD/Surround yes. But you don't need to connect to the TV after connecting the Sky box to the DVD/Surround - the Sky box will feed picture and audio to the TV through the scart, and then also send audio to the DVD/Surround through the red+white audio cables. So you should get sound from both the TV and the DVD/Surround is hooked up like this, and both turned on (DVD/Surround will need to be set to the AUX or whatever input channel)
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"I take it the Sky is connected to the TV using Scart? If so then you will get audio through the TV speakers from the Sky box over the scart cable,"

Yes it is.

See above.....
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"Does that all make sense? "

Nope not one fookin bit lol

Good

 

ok need to read all this again just to be sure of what i sposed to be doing at least then when i fook up ill be able to see my fook up and realise at which point i fooked up.

So thanks yet again Thrush

 

Make sense now?