Will this work to send display to my TV and the 5.1 surround sound to my Sonos playbar+Play 1 speakers from DirectTV receiver as well as PS3-Netflix&Blu-ray?
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It depends. The 5.1 is a bit of a strange deal, but it definitely did what I wanted it to do, and that was provide 5.1 audio from HDMI to Optical into my old 5.1 receiver that only had Optical in and no HDMI. The trick is that it doesn't do Linear PCM or any uncompressed 5.1 sound. However, compressed audio like Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 work perfectly. Depending on the Sonos's settings, you should be able to get 5.1 through to it using this switch
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It looks like the Sonos has optical in so you will be fine! I have 4 things plugged into mine and it has no problem switching from one to the other.
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Yes. The HDMI connections from your DirectTV and PS3 will go into the switch, where the audio will be separated into a TOSLINK connection that can go to your Sonos. I have a similar setup at home with multiple inputs, a video output, and a separate, powered audio system.
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That's probably not going to work since there is only one output source for the speakers - and those are for the speaker wires. the coax, component video, and optical cable are all inputs, only one hdmi output to connnect to your tv, the rest of the hdmi are all input from your other devices as well. do some search you may find a coax output for speakers, but it may be difficult because a lot of newer receivers are either hdmi, optical, component video and even bluetooth.
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This device should work, however, if your TV isn't capable of outputting high quality sound (Dolby, DTS, etc) your receiver audio may sound not as good as it could be but it should work.
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Since the only signal you need to send to the unit is audio, the only input connections you care about are 2 analog (RCA to 3.5mm or 3.5mm to RCA) and 2 digital (Digital Optical or Digital Coaxial). Digital gives you a better quality sound, but I would send the digital audio directly from the source (Receiver or Blu-Ray player) and not the TV. For best results, I use a fiber optic (Toslink) cable from Blu-ray player to Sound bar.
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John's right. I used mine as the convertor from PS3 optical to 5.1 surround. My surround had rca type inputs, no optical. Use this box to convert optical output to stereo, but if your surround box has optical input, this box isn't needed.
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You cannot use this for that purpose; this is an "HDMI splitter", which was built to take one HDMI source and output that to a maximum of 4 HDTV's (like in a sports bar). Because what you want is surround sound from all three devices (and without knowing the type of receiver you have) your options are: - If your Receiver has only one or two HDMI inputs - you will need to add a "HDMI Switch", to accommodate all three devices. - If your Receiver has no HDMI inputs - it is better to get a new Receiver with atleast 3 HDMI inputs. - If your Receiver has three or more HDMI inputs - you are fine, just connect your devices to the Receiver. I hope this helps....
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Yes and it will also play 5.1 surround sound for movies and shows that have 5.1 audio
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Haig, I'm not sure which "problems" with optical out have been occurring with the Sonos. But 5.1 from the TV's optical audio only happens from two sources: The digital OTA tuner (local broadcasts) and the Apps (like Netflix streaming with 5.1). All incoming signals via HDMI would be down-sampled to a 2.0/2.1 stereo signal out of the TV's optical port. It has to do with rules pertaining to copy protection with HDMI. Being a gamer, we recommend that if you have a 5.1 system, route the 5.1 audio from your game system direct from the optical out to the receiver - just bypass the TV altogether in terms of audio. Unfortunately, there are no "lag" comparisons I can offer - from our TVs, much less other manufacturers. Naturally, we stay neutral with comparisons and comments on other brands, so we can't really speak on their 'lag'. That said, we do have a "Game Mode" on our televisions that allow you to drop some of the additional picture processing in favor of a faster transition. But since this is a UHD, you'll want to make sure your game system is outputting a 1080p resolution. That way, the TV doesn't have to take additional processing resources with a lower incoming signal resolution. The higher the incoming resolution, the less processing that has to happen, which will only help decrease that lag. So double check on your game system. Let us know if we can help further, and thanks for your interest in Samsung televisions. --Mr. S
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While a receiver gives you more flexibility, in terms of being able to connect additional wired speakers and components, you will be fine with what you propose, assuming that the TV has multiple inputs. In my case, I run a Tivo via one HDMI cable and a DVD player via another through my TV. The Playbar serves as the external speakers connected directly to the television via an optical cable (and since it contains its own amplifier, I am not limited by the output from my television). You need the Sonos connect to set up the wireless system to which the Playbar belongs.
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I ran into the issue of my Yamaha receiver not being 3D compatible. I had to run the HDMI directly to the projector and use a fiber optic cable from the player to the receiver for the sound. However, I have a 7.1 system and fiber optics only supports 5.1 so I am going to get a passive splitter that supports 3D to send an HDMI signal to both devices. If you don't have a receiver, you will need to get one if you want to get sound out to external speakers as there is no pass through on this device.
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i have plasma "optical out" and i have my receiver with 'RCA input only" with 5.1 Speaker out, do this adapter work to have 5.1 surround sound. My receiver is only RCA Input, and i want 5.1 out, NOT Stereo?.
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Yes, that is what I use it for. My setup is from Raspberry Pi HDMI Out to AGPTek, then from AGPTek to my TV and APGTek to my receiver. This allows me to have 5.1 surround sound on my receiver.
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Yes, 1 HDMI & 1 optical, I looked. Internet content like Netflix & Sony rentals will play in Surround Sound, if the program was recorded in surround sound. It still plays otherwise, but you don't hear the speaker effects and not as loud.
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Yes. This is how we have ours set up. Be aware that our soundbar or our blueray player and the switcher seem to have a comparability issue and we can only send 2.1 audio from the switch to our vizio sound bar when using our sony blueray player. If we send 5.1, it drops or partially drops some of the channels.
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That's because your optical cable is running from the receiver to the television, not to the PS3. Anything playing on your television will play through all your surround speakers. You would have to run the optical cable directly from the receiver to the PS3 to get the sound strictly from the PS3.My setup is the same as yours.
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No, you need to have another SONOS device connected to your television. If you already have a sound system connected to your television, you could connect using the Sonos Connect. If you don't have a sound system, you could connect using either the Sonos Connect:AMP (which would have two speaker connected to it) or Sonos Playbar.
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You can read my review, I have two systems, a 5.1 sony surround and I just added this sound bar last night to get better sound from netflix. The reason for this is that my dvr box is hooked up to the surround sound system via an optical digital cable. Very pleased!