It is possible to connect the HDMI to the television and have the optical audio
go to the receiver. I don't know if that would effect the quality of the
signal though...
I actually resolved my sound issue last night. I believe that the
digital to analog converters on my receiver are not very good, so no matter
what I ran through the optical, the audio would sound quite compressed. I
found that a work around for me was to use a y chord to take audio from the
line out of the tv and have it go into the auxiliary input of the receiver.
The sound is noticeably better this way.
Hope this makes sense to someone. I'm just glad to have good audio in the
living room.
On Dec 28, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was curious if you can have hdmi connected to the TV and the optical audio
> connection to a receiver. I know hdmi carries audio as well as video and
> wonder if there could be any issues with this configuration.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 28, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Michael Thurman wrote:
>
>> the apple tv is probably looking for the presence of the hdmi connected tv,
>> that's my guess anyway. so far apple tv is a no go for me i fit still has
>> problems
>>
>> On Dec 28, 2010, at 2:16 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Justin,
>>>
>>> I have not noticed any difference in the quality of the audio from Mac to
>>> apple tv, as opposed to Mac to airport express. Admittedly, the speakers
>>> that are attached to the receiver that has the a tv connection are not the
>>> most wonderful speakers in the world, but they're decent. So I think a
>>> really notable drop in audio quality would be noticed. That chopping speech
>>> problem is still very much with me, though, and I don't guess there is a
>>> cure, short of purchasing a different surround receiver, which is
>>> definitely out of the question. I also found out that there are times when
>>> you must have the tv turned on, or you can't play a stream from netflix.
>>> This happened the other night when I was trying to stream a movie that my
>>> sighted husband wasn't interested in, so I didn't have the tv on and kept
>>> getting an error message about the requirement for a certain type of hdmi
>>> capability. I can't remember the letters that followed hdmi. Turning on the
>>> tv solved the problem. The whole thing seemed quite strange, since the
>>> netflix signal was coming from the net and shouldn't have had anything to
>>> do with the presence or not of a tv.
>>>
>>> Mary
>>>
>>> Mary Otten
>>> motte...@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
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