[mythtv-users] FYI - New HW video accellAPI from NVIDIA

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM, jansenj <jansenj+myth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:57 PM,  <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, but with HDMI Video and Sound I get one cable into my Plasma and I can
>> then pipe the sound out from the plasma to my Surround Amp via S/PDIF
>
> I wish my TV would do that, but it won't :(  The ONLY audio it will
> pass through the TV is Analog in to analog out.  Any digital in via
> spdif or hdmi won't go out the spdif out.  The digital out is ONLY for
> stuff the TV decodes from cable or antenna.  What a pain, I just
> assumed it would when I bought the tv, but didn't have the systems to
> test it out until after the return period.  Its a Sony XBR2 none the
> less.

most TV's won't pass this information as they are seen as a leaf on
the branch where receivers will be the trunk, taking the source
material, extracting the audio information and then passing the video
on to the TV.

Don't feel like your missing out or losing anything.


-- 
Steve
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