Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone
We recently bought an Apple TV 4K to replace our Apple TV 3. The idea is to upgrade the TV at some point, but for now we use an old (but imho still quite OK) Panasonic HD plasma – the TX-P50GT30. The sources are either ripped DVDs from our media centre or streamed movies and series from iTunes, Netflix and the like.
Surround sound is provided by an old Harman Kardon AVR 130 and a set of Canton MX with sub. The surround system will be upgraded too at some point.
On the ATV 3 I used the optical out for 5.1 sound, but since the ATV 4K lacks audio out I am currently outputting audio from the TV's optical digital out. This results in stereo sound only (though the Harman has that Logic 7 thingy that tries to mimic surround sound somehow).
What I am wondering is if it would be possible to use an HDMI extractor to get 5.1 sound through the Harman somehow?
That receiver obviously lacks HDMI but has optical and coaxial digital inputs. I'm not able to figure out what the bandwidth capacity of those inputs really is. According to the manual they can handle a signal that is "either a Dolby Digital signal, a DTS signal or a standard PCM (S/P-DIF) digital source".
Would that be sufficient for the amount of audio information that runs over HDMI when 'extracted'?
EDIT: I was looking at for instance the OREI HDA-912 4K HDMI Audio Converter.
Thank you very much in advance
Philip
We recently bought an Apple TV 4K to replace our Apple TV 3. The idea is to upgrade the TV at some point, but for now we use an old (but imho still quite OK) Panasonic HD plasma – the TX-P50GT30. The sources are either ripped DVDs from our media centre or streamed movies and series from iTunes, Netflix and the like.
Surround sound is provided by an old Harman Kardon AVR 130 and a set of Canton MX with sub. The surround system will be upgraded too at some point.
On the ATV 3 I used the optical out for 5.1 sound, but since the ATV 4K lacks audio out I am currently outputting audio from the TV's optical digital out. This results in stereo sound only (though the Harman has that Logic 7 thingy that tries to mimic surround sound somehow).
What I am wondering is if it would be possible to use an HDMI extractor to get 5.1 sound through the Harman somehow?
That receiver obviously lacks HDMI but has optical and coaxial digital inputs. I'm not able to figure out what the bandwidth capacity of those inputs really is. According to the manual they can handle a signal that is "either a Dolby Digital signal, a DTS signal or a standard PCM (S/P-DIF) digital source".
Would that be sufficient for the amount of audio information that runs over HDMI when 'extracted'?
EDIT: I was looking at for instance the OREI HDA-912 4K HDMI Audio Converter.
Thank you very much in advance
Philip