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Re: SKY HD sound

Beonut — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:50:21 GMT

All the HD channels support DD but not all the programs transmitted are DD as that depends on the source material. You can see what is in DD by looking in the program description in the sky epg they add DD to the description.

Cheers

Peter

Re: SKY HD sound

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:03 GMT

Are all HD channels DD?

Re: SKY HD sound

Beonut — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:40:36 GMT

Agreed, just a few more channels with the DD track. If fact Ive noticed my last post was slightly inaccurate, joc in his post is correct a few of the SD channels also transmit DD as you already know I think.

Regards

Peter

Re: SKY HD sound

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:38:13 GMT

No sound improvements over SKY+ then !

Re: SKY HD sound

Beonut — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:33:11 GMT

On a Sky HD box you need to connect the optical output up to your system using an optical to sp/diff converter, the Sky HD box does not transmit DD sound over the HDMI cable (as it should). You can then receive DD sound on channels that transmit it which is just the Sky HD channels.

Cheers

Peter

Re: SKY HD sound

JoC — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:17:14 GMT

The Sky HD box has HDMI & Optical Sound out (Toslink) - also Left-Right audio connectors.

The only channels that I know that broadcast DolbyDigital are SkyMovies (premier 1 & 1+), SkySports, SkyBoxOffice & the HD channels, could be more but I doubt it.

Heres a picture from wikipedia... (notice also it has USB, Ethernet & eSATA - interesting )

SKY HD sound

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:57:43 GMT

I have SKY+ with a Toslink lead for Digital sound output to my TV.

Does SKY HD have optical out or HDMI for sound? Are other channels broadcast in Dolby Digital or just the HD channels?