Cleve
Super Member
We just bought Fire TV - apparently Amazon 'upgraded' the newer units to NOT have optical sound output.
My McIntosh home theater preamp does not have HDMI inputs/outputs - just optical audio and coaxial digital audio inputs. Well, no big deal - I figured I'd just HDMI connect to my Samsung plasma, and then use the optical out from the Samsung to the McIntosh.
Except - the TV does NOT output 5.1 sound - just stereo. I've tried changing settings in FireTV ANd in the Samsung - the "Multichannel" option in the Samsung menu is grayed out.
Apparently, there's some inane HDMI copywrite restriction thing whereas unless the TV is receiving a feed from an antenna input, it will NOT output multichannel sound via the optical connection.
Any work arounds? FireTV is great - except I can't get the friggin' 5.1 sound to work with my system. Why they had to change it - if they'd left FireTV with optical out sound there wouldn't be any issues.
My McIntosh home theater preamp does not have HDMI inputs/outputs - just optical audio and coaxial digital audio inputs. Well, no big deal - I figured I'd just HDMI connect to my Samsung plasma, and then use the optical out from the Samsung to the McIntosh.
Except - the TV does NOT output 5.1 sound - just stereo. I've tried changing settings in FireTV ANd in the Samsung - the "Multichannel" option in the Samsung menu is grayed out.
Apparently, there's some inane HDMI copywrite restriction thing whereas unless the TV is receiving a feed from an antenna input, it will NOT output multichannel sound via the optical connection.
Any work arounds? FireTV is great - except I can't get the friggin' 5.1 sound to work with my system. Why they had to change it - if they'd left FireTV with optical out sound there wouldn't be any issues.