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Maybe this is a bit OT, but here goes:

HDMI provides a combined HD video & multi-channel audio digital
transmission system over a single cable. The idea obviously being to
take the digital output from a Sky box or a ridiculously overpriced
Bluray HD player to your nice shiny new HD display. The snag is that the
said HD display almost certainly has crap audio & tinny speakers.

In the past, the audio would have been handled by a separate
processor/6.1 amp & the piccies would have been passed as RGB or
component to the display. With HDMI this is more difficult to achieve.

I have seen 6.1 amps that have HDMI inputs but I don't understand how
you connect one HDMI source to 2 different "sinks" ie the audio amp &
the display, particularly when HDCP is involved as well.

Any of you experts who lurk in this NG know how it works?

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Keith Bailey

"Keith Bailey" wrote in message
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Maybe this is a bit OT, but here goes:

HDMI provides a combined HD video & multi-channel audio digital
transmission system over a single cable. The idea obviously being to take
the digital output from a Sky box or a ridiculously overpriced Bluray HD
player to your nice shiny new HD display. The snag is that the said HD
display almost certainly has crap audio & tinny speakers.

In the past, the audio would have been handled by a separate processor/6.1
amp & the piccies would have been passed as RGB or component to the
display. With HDMI this is more difficult to achieve.

I have seen 6.1 amps that have HDMI inputs but I don't understand how you
connect one HDMI source to 2 different "sinks" ie the audio amp & the
display, particularly when HDCP is involved as well.

Any of you experts who lurk in this NG know how it works?

you connect the hdmi from your sky box etc to the hdmi in on your amp.
then you connect the hdmi out from your amp to the hdmi in on your tv - it's
that simple.
plus, the advantage here is, traditionally, routing video through your AV
amp would result in a loss of quality.
with HDMI, it doesnt - it passes the signal through intact and unaltered.

--
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
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