Hi, I have a temporary setup (long story, in a thread elsewhere) outputting optical audio from sky decoder to a soundbar. The decoder is connected to the TV with HDMI.
On channels 1-4 it doesn't work and the sound comes from the extremely tinny TV speakers. On changing to any other channel the sound comes from the sound bar. How come?
I think it would be much better (and would it fix this issue) if I took an audio-out from the TV to the soundbar, but the TV has no optical audio-out. It does have coax digital audio out, as does the soundbar, I just don't have a suitable cable at hand.
The new TV I am waiting on has HDMI ARC as does the soundbar, so I am hoping when that is done I will have decoder HDMI to the TV, TV HDMI ARC to the soundbar HDMI ARC and it will all work seamlessly without having to use anything other than the Sky remote to control volume?
Cheers
John