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Is Chorus digital mono?

  • 30-12-2003 7:35pm
    #1
    colm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    When getting chorus digital I assumed (dangerous to assume anything of Chorus, i know!) that it would be transmit in stereo. After years of bloody mono MMDS i looked forward to digital tv, which obviously would be stereo, but this is not the case. Sony tv will only operate on mono everytime the decoder is plugged in, yet is stereo if decoder is absent.

    I'm about to purchase a Panasonic 600W surround system, won't be much use with mono sound though!.

    Have i missed something?


Comments

  • #2
    com7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭com7


    the chorus digital service is in stereo your doing something wrong !


  • #3
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    it might be a stupid question but

    have you the stb connected to the tv with a scart lead?


  • #4
    colm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭colm


    Originally posted by Mossy Monk
    it might be a stupid question but

    have you the stb connected to the tv with a scart lead?

    Re: scart lead, nope.

    Having suffered years of mono sound i believe from the quality of the sound that it is stereo, however i just can't get away from the fact that the tv states mono.....


  • #5
    jimbob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭jimbob


    I have chorus digital and it is definitely stereo. Its connected only by
    the scart lead to the tv.


  • #6
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Originally posted by colm
    Re: scart lead, nope.

    every STB i have ever owned needed a scart lead for stereo sound

    i would say yours does too


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  • #7
    colm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭colm


    Originally posted by Mossy Monk
    every STB i have ever owned needed a scart lead for stereo sound
    i would say yours does too

    a scart lead it is then, thanks alot......


  • #8
    Greenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Greenman


    So colm!!! Are you in stereo now???? :):):)


  • #9
    colm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭colm


    Originally posted by greenman
    So colm!!! Are you in stereo now???? :):):)

    greenman, refer to posts dated 03/01/2004 !


  • #10
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Off air analog TV uses the Digital Nicam signal piggy backed on the signal.

    NO locally generated RF (VHS playback, VHS Nicam stereo tuner channel, Sony PS2, DVD, Digibox, Chorus MMDS Digital etc) is EVER EVER digital as a Nicam Encoder is horribly expensive. They just recreate ole analog FM sound. Only RF loop through of TV aerial on Chorus box or Digibox has Nicam stereo.


    Note a VHS NEVER EVER records NICAM. It decodes the NICAM and records two channel FM audio stereo. It can only playback in stereo via red & white RCA connectors or SCART.

    Similarly ANY Digital receiver (Cable, Satellite, MMDS, DTT/UK freeview) only outputs stereo on the RCA connectors and/or SCART. NEVER the RF aerial out.


    Video senders do work in Stereo by TWO FM channels, even if there is no video connected.

    FM radio uses one mono FM channel and a L-R "multiplex" AM-DSBSC subcarrier at 38Khz with a 19KHz tone to "lock up" the decoder. Such a system was never adopted for TV stereo.

    In Europe some countries add a second FM channel (zwei sond) which can be used for a different language. Early sets could only get one or other channel. Later sets do have option to use both for stereo. So some UK/IRL/French/German multistandard sets (TV and VHS) can do ANALOG stereo in German mode via RF, but this is incompatible with UK/IRL sound system.


    Use the SCART or connect the HIfi to a SCART adaptor. (The TV speakers are so close to each other that I doubt if you can hear Stereo more than 6ft away.)


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