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

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

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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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