have got a yamaha reciver whats best way to set it all up hdmi cable to reciever and reciever to tv or hdmi cable straight to tv and use optical for sound?
HDMI all the way through will give you the best sound, as long as your amp is an HDMI repeater (in other words, it can pass both picture and audio over an HDMI cable). What version of amp do you have? And what type of TV?
Often, you'll still need an optical cable for audio playback of Freeview UHF or a USB hard drive that's plugged in directly to the TV... unless your TV and amp has ARC.
thanks for ya help dunners one question whats the tv optical amp one for ? doesnt the sound travel via hdmi? do i only get sound if i hook it up that way if the amp is on? if so how do u get sound st from tv when amp not in use ie kids using it lol
The optical, I presume, is to take the tv audio out back to the amp if you want to use your home theatre speakers rather than the tv ones for the tv's built in tuner or things that are on the USB stick etc. You may be able to use AR (audio return) on the hdmi cable instead if all your equipment is capable. Yes you should only need one hdmi cable from the amp to the tv. Most good amps these days will pass the hdmi signal to the tv even when the amp is off (on standby) though I haven't looked at the specs of this one. Not sure how it will pick the input if you have both the sky and bluray on at the same time...never tried it!
what if i dont want the amp on and only sound from tv with mysky goin to amp will i still get any sound from tv? or would i need another plug to transmit sound from amp to tv? when amp is off
Mattv: Most good amps these days will pass the hdmi signal to the tv even when the amp is off (on standby) though I haven't looked at the specs of this one. Not sure how it will pick the input if you have both the sky and bluray on at the same time...never tried it!
A little bit of googling shows that this amp does do hdmi pass through. This of course includes both video and audio, so no you won't need another cable to listen to sky/bluray via the tv speakers with the amp in standby. Yamaha calls it "Standby Through" and it does allow you to change inputs somehow - you'll have to look in your manual for how to.
Also during my googling I see that the amp allows for hdmi AR but it doesn't seem as if the TV does so you will need the optical cable, connected to the tv optical out, if you want to get audio produced by the TV output through the amp.
An amp with HDMI passthrough would allow you to have your amp turned off... but you'd still be able to watch MySky. The picture will be on the TV, the sound will come out of the amplifier.
If you turn on your amplifier, the screen will go blank for 3-4 seconds, then the sound will also come out of the speakers.
I'm still pretty sure that the 467 doesn't offer this, but I know that the 667 does...
I was going from a review I read plus the "features" on the Yamaha website (Advanced features, 6th bullet point)
Just to clarify what Dunnersfella has written above. When the amp is on the sound will be processed by the amp and come out through your home theatre speakers. It may stop the audio being sent to the TV completely or it may still be sent so you may have to turn the TV volume down (check the manual/settings).
When the amp is off (in standby) the amp will simply let the signal "pass through" and the sound will come out via the TV speakers. It effectively turns the 2 hdmi cables into one long one. It seems the amp has the ability to let you select which source (sky or bluray) is sent to the TV even when it is in standby.
Looks like a nice little amp - heaps of features anyway. I might have to look at replacing my ageing rx-v657
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