TiVo : TiVo 5.1 surround sound possible in another room?

[RichardCoulter]

I am posting this on behalf of someone else:

Hi All,

This is my first post, sorry if this has been asked numerous times before

I bought a NEET HDMI 2 way splitter, originally set up with sky+ box
2 TVs one in lounge with a 5.1 surround sound and the other Samsung LED in the kitchen with no surround sound. Everything worked fine. As in lounge had 5.1 and the kitchen had decent picture and sound in stereo.

After 10yrs being with Sky I have taken a big jump and yesterday had Virgin installed

Virgin TiVo box I can only get the following

1) TiVo box set to Dolby I get 5.1 in the lounge and picture only in the kitchen
2) TiVo box set to pcm only stereo on both tv's

Ideally I would like 5.1 in the lounge and stereo in the kitchen, is this possible like it was with my sky box set up?

[Joedm45]

Hi Richard,

I have exactly the same set up, also use a Neet splitter and had the same issues to begin with. I emailed Neet and they were both prompt and informative. They told me the splitter (and not many on the market at the time) cannot split audio the way you want.

The only solution is to have both TVs so they output stereo and use the TiVo optical out to an amp for 5.1, assuming your amp has this facility.

This worked great for me until VM decided to update the TiVo firmware on 2nd July that messed up the optical output making it pretty much unusable. There is a thread complaining about this on VM forum where they acknowledge the problem but are in no rush to fix it.

So, unless someone knows another way to help then the answer at the moment is no, you cannot have 5.1 on one tv and stereo on another.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Joedm45

Hi Richard,

I have exactly the same set up, also use a Neet splitter and had the same issues to begin with. I emailed Neet and they were both prompt and informative. They told me the splitter (and not many on the market at the time) cannot split audio the way you want.

The only solution is to have both TVs so they output stereo and use the TiVo optical out to an amp for 5.1, assuming your amp has this facility.

This worked great for me until VM decided to update the TiVo firmware on 2nd July that messed up the optical output making it pretty much unusable. There is a thread complaining about this on VM forum where they acknowledge the problem but are in no rush to fix it.

So, unless someone knows another way to help then the answer at the moment is no, you cannot have 5.1 on one tv and stereo on another.

Many thanks for taking the time to reply- i'll pass the information on