Receivers optical ports being occupied by DVD and cable box. What now? How do I get Apple TV audio through my reciever?
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toslink switch or toslink splitter
What model of ATV do you have? Do you have HDMI on the Receiver?
VVSC 816 and I don't believe it has an HDMI port. If it does?
The ATV1 has HDMI/TOSLink/Component and AnalogR+L, but ATV2/3 have only HDMI/TOSlink. Hence my question for the version of ATV.
Apart from Rudegar's solution, you can also use an HDMI-to-Component converter which your VSX should support, unless these are also occupied on the Receiver as well.
From my humble perspective (not technical) I need another optical port for the audio. I have the Apple TV HDMI going to my TV and that hookup is fine. I am trying to audio to my reciever and the VSX 816 Pioneer hsa 2 optical audio ports but they are taken up by my cable box and DVD. Can you split an optical port? MY Pioneer TV had 2 HDMI ports and IU had to get a 2:1 splitter to allow the Apple TV to share one of them. I would have assumed using the DVD one (for now) would route sound down to the reciever via that input selection...maybe Im not doing thsi coprrectly.
Does your TV have an optical out?
If so, you can also connect everything to your TV and output your TV audio to the receiver via the optical out.
ok, let me try this again...yes the tV has an optical out but my issue is I dont have an available optical IN on my reciever...they are occupied by the DVD and cable box....
I understand.
Does the TV have enough HDMI inputs for the ATV, DVD & Cable box?
If so connect them all to the TV (the HDMI will carry the audio to the TV) then output the TV to the receiver via the optical output.
good question...it only has 2 inputs 5,6....5 is TV/cable box and 6 is the DVD...so I got a 1:2 splitter from best buy and split the 6 input and I can press a button on the splitter and either have the Apple TV using HDMI 6 or I can swithc back to my DVD.
So, you should be able to output the TV to the receiver via an optical cable and the audio from all three devices should pass through to the receiver.
Make sure that you set the audio output source on the devices to HDMI and set the TV audio output to the optical output.
sounds feasible but isnt it better to have my cable box and dvd goign directly to the receiver with the current optical cables separately? Or doesnt it matter having the TV route it to the reciever?
It should not matter at all as it is digital all the way through.
thanks, I guess I could also disconnect the DVD optical-receiver connection and replace with digital coaxial connections and free that port up for the AQTV.
Just a caveat that I have found. The TVs digital Optical may not pass all audio formats. I have an issue where an HDMI brings in DTS-MA, but the Optical passes 2 ch Linear PCM. Also, programs in 5.1 form TV going back to the Receiver do not see a 5.1, but a 2-ch Linear PCM. TV manufacturer may decide what they implement.
What Axeman is suggesting is that the TV be used as an Audio hub and only one Optical from TV come to one input on VSX. and the TV will select which source will get to VSX via it's internal switch/hub.
Receivers optical ports being occupied by DVD and cable box. What now? How do I get Apple TV audio through my reciever?
