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Blueray & HDMI

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  • 18-11-2009 12:42am
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    jabaroon
    Registered Users Posts: 668 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    Thinking of buying myself my first blueray player as a crimbo pressie this year. One question though!.....

    I supply A/V to one of my TV's using a HDMI/CAT5 active balun. This works fine with everything except my existing DVD player as the DVD player puts out a 1.3 compliant signal (eg: audio on a separate channel).

    For xbox and sky (and others), it works fine as the extra foreground 1.3 channel for audio is not present, it is just all merged into one audio track.

    My assumption is that if I get my new blueray player, it will suffer the same fate? Just wanted to check if this is other peoples understanding and/or if such a thing exists to blend the foreground track with the background and have the player put out a 1.2 signal rather than a 1.3!

    Hope this makes sense!
    Cheers,
    Jab


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    akaSol
    Registered Users Posts: 717 ✭✭✭akaSol


    jabaroon wrote: »
    Hi Folks,

    Thinking of buying myself my first blueray player as a crimbo pressie this year. One question though!.....

    I supply A/V to one of my TV's using a HDMI/CAT5 active balun. This works fine with everything except my existing DVD player as the DVD player puts out a 1.3 compliant signal (eg: audio on a separate channel).

    For xbox and sky (and others), it works fine as the extra foreground 1.3 channel for audio is not present, it is just all merged into one audio track.

    My assumption is that if I get my new blueray player, it will suffer the same fate? Just wanted to check if this is other peoples understanding and/or if such a thing exists to blend the foreground track with the background and have the player put out a 1.2 signal rather than a 1.3!

    Hope this makes sense!
    Cheers,
    Jab

    Well yes and no. (LOL)
    If your using the single cat 5 balun then ,YES , your imminent Bluray will suffer the same way because its a minimum 1.3a connection.
    However if you got an A/V amp, connected the AV sources to it, then all it needs is the picture out and no problems.
    A double cat 5e / cat 6 balun would allow you to pass through sound and video but you would need another cable from source to panel

    >Sol


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