Here's my situation:
I am setting up a new entertainment center. Here's my devices:
Satellite TV Box with HDMI out, component and toslink
AppleTV with HDMI out, component and toslink
Playstation 3 with HDMI out, component and toslink
Xbox 360 with component and toslink
My brother has essentially the same setup, but his receiver would not process or play audio from the HDMI sources. So for his PS3 and Satellite TV, he had to run the HDMI and then also the Toslink for the audio. We aren't very savvy with this and couldn't figure out why, but I basically found out that his receiver wouldn't decode/play the audio signal from the HDMI, it just passed it on to the TV.
How do you know if a receiver will do that? Ideally, I'd like to have something like the AppleTV just hooked into the receiver with HDMI (and then another HDMI to the TV), and have the audio play on TV, movies, and music.
Is this possible? The problem my brother ran into was that he had 3 Toslink devices (since the receiver wouldn't play audio sound), but the receiver only had 2 toslink inputs. So there was no way to have the audio from the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the Satellite all plugged in.
I don't know if I'm being clear, because really I don't know what I am talking about. It just seems like if I have a PS3 or AppleTV or Satellite box, if I plug their HDMI into the receiver, the audio should play in Digital 5.1, and the video should be sent to the TV at 1080p. But, that hasn't been the case on the 2 receivers he has tried (pioneer and yamaha, $300 range).
What do I do?
I am setting up a new entertainment center. Here's my devices:
Satellite TV Box with HDMI out, component and toslink
AppleTV with HDMI out, component and toslink
Playstation 3 with HDMI out, component and toslink
Xbox 360 with component and toslink
My brother has essentially the same setup, but his receiver would not process or play audio from the HDMI sources. So for his PS3 and Satellite TV, he had to run the HDMI and then also the Toslink for the audio. We aren't very savvy with this and couldn't figure out why, but I basically found out that his receiver wouldn't decode/play the audio signal from the HDMI, it just passed it on to the TV.
How do you know if a receiver will do that? Ideally, I'd like to have something like the AppleTV just hooked into the receiver with HDMI (and then another HDMI to the TV), and have the audio play on TV, movies, and music.
Is this possible? The problem my brother ran into was that he had 3 Toslink devices (since the receiver wouldn't play audio sound), but the receiver only had 2 toslink inputs. So there was no way to have the audio from the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the Satellite all plugged in.
I don't know if I'm being clear, because really I don't know what I am talking about. It just seems like if I have a PS3 or AppleTV or Satellite box, if I plug their HDMI into the receiver, the audio should play in Digital 5.1, and the video should be sent to the TV at 1080p. But, that hasn't been the case on the 2 receivers he has tried (pioneer and yamaha, $300 range).
What do I do?
