RE: Sky+ is in...

["Gareth Cook/STA/Lotus" <gcook@xxxxxxx>]

Course.

Phil is correct - selecting PCM will downmix the AC3 signal to straight -
well, PCM !

same as the dvd player. You set it to pcm if you plug it into a decoder
that cant do AC3 (but has a toslink)

G.
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Not at all ... if the Sky+ box can be forced to only output PCM stereo *OR*
Dolby Digital then that's fine . Switched to Dolby Digital only and hooked
up to an AV amp then an AC-3 encoded signal would have the full five
channels (3/2) and a stereo signal would only use 2 channels (2/0). This is
the way it should be. Switched to PCM and linked to an external DAC (for
example) then you would receive straight stereo - again, as you would
expect.

What is most likely is that the will provide *EITHER* PCM stereo *OR* PCM
stereo + Dolby Digital (AC-3).

I don't see how there's a problem...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
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> There is 1 single TOSLink port.
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> In the on screen menus, you can elect to have standard or Dolby
Digital.
> Yes my Sony amp will autodetect (in a hierarchical fashion) - but if
the
> DigiBox only outputs one stream or the other, it's not much good
>
> I shall check out - waiting for the card to be upgraded on-air.
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> G.
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> > 3. The optical output says standard OR Dolby Dig - maybe you can
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> > one or the other ? Daft...
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> What do you mean.
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> 1: That there are two optical outputs
> 2: That the single output is labelled "Standard OR Dolby
Digital".
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> "2" makes sense, since you can only carry one data stream at
a time.
> Either you carry a PCM stream or a DD one, and rely on your processor
to
> auto-switch, exactly as you would with a DVD player...
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> Regards,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Cook/STA/Lotus [mailto:gcook@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 4 September 2001 12:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Sky+ is in...
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>
> I bougth a clipsal fron plate with a UHF and 2 x f-plug sockets (cause
> Sky+
> needs 2 cables) - but they had a twin cable (joined) and suggested it
> would
> not be good to put a join in - and have proceeded to drill a hole in
the
> wall and it now goes directly.
>
> So - askign if Mr Huggins will accept this clipsal back.
>
> 3 things :
>
> 1. I not sure the picture is as good as my Panny digibox (using RGB)
> 2. The old Sky digibox remote wont talk to the new box (damn!)
> 3. The optical output says standard OR Dolby Dig - maybe you can only
> have
> one or the other ? Daft...
>
> G.
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