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Stuart · 22-01-2007, 23:48

As far as I know, the TV drive will only decode the sound into Stereo. It passes whatever digital signal it gets out the digital port (as with most DVD players).

As for the channels, the SD ones output standard stereo signals generally, unless the programme being shown has a dolby-prologic soundtrack (mostly films, but a few big dramas do this as well).

The one HD channel I know of that uses Dolby Digital output (and the only HD channel on the TVDrive so far) is BBC HD. They tend to show HD versions of their big series with Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks. I'm told that Robin Hood (for instance) looks and sounds stunning.

22-01-2007, 23:48	#6
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Audio outputs from TVDrive As far as I know, the TV drive will only decode the sound into Stereo. It passes whatever digital signal it gets out the digital port (as with most DVD players). As for the channels, the SD ones output standard stereo signals generally, unless the programme being shown has a dolby-prologic soundtrack (mostly films, but a few big dramas do this as well). The one HD channel I know of that uses Dolby Digital output (and the only HD channel on the TVDrive so far) is BBC HD. They tend to show HD versions of their big series with Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks. I'm told that Robin Hood (for instance) looks and sounds stunning.