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Snakey_Jakey
Contributor I
February 21, 2019

Beam only receiving stereo from virgin V6

Hi,

I have virgin V6 box connected via hdmi to my Panasonic tv. I also have amazon fire connected to another hdmi input. The beam is connected via hdmi arc to the tv.

Output from amazon fire is recieved by the beam as dd2.0 or dd5.1 depending on what is playing.

The output from the V6 box only comes as stereo. The v6 box audio setting is set to do (not dd to pcm). The info for the tv channel is shown as Dolby audio so I would expect it to be dd2.0 or possibly dd5.1.

Has anyone got dd audio out of V6 box when connected through hdmi arc?
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    Keithmac
    Virtuoso
    March 3, 2019
    I feared as much. The Dobly Audio channels show up as stereo.

    Is it likely that, as you can’t force the V6 to export only Dd it is seeing the tv’s audio capability as oppose to the beams?

    There is no way to force V6 to only use dd if available?

    With my VM Tivo, I had to use an EDID emulator to get it to pass DD5.1 through to our Playbar.

    Basically HDMI devices do a "handshake" when connected, if your TV reports itself as a stereo device that's all the Set Top Box will provide.

    The EDID emulator told my Tivo STB that the TV was Dolby Digital 5.1 cabable and then this passed through to Playbar.

    It's a minefield choosing the right TV, can make or break your whole setup. Some manufactures are great with the audio/ hdmi protocols and some aren't!.
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    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    March 3, 2019
    It's a minefield choosing the right TV, can make or break your whole setup. Some manufactures are great with the audio/ hdmi protocols and some aren't!.I completely agree with this comment and it’s not always just the cheaper TV's that don’t work well either,

    Additionally, the lack of information provided by many TV manufacturers makes it quite difficult to know which brand and model to choose.
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      Keithmac
      Virtuoso
      March 3, 2019
      It's a minefield choosing the right TV, can make or break your whole setup. Some manufactures are great with the audio/ hdmi protocols and some aren't!.I completely agree with this comment and it’s not always just the cheaper TV's that don’t work well either,

      Additionally, the lack of information provided by many TV manufacturers makes it quite difficult to know which brand and model to choose.

      Yep, it's deffinitely put me off buying a new TV unfortunately. Will be one that's been proven to work correctly on this forum and be easy to take back if it doesn't work!.
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      Snakey_JakeyAuthor
      Contributor I
      March 5, 2019
      Thanks all for the comments. I think your all right that it’s a edid issue.

      I got a kwmobile edid manager box and set it to 4k 5.1 and low and behold vm now outputs dd2.0

      I’m assuming when a film is on that will turn to 5.1

      I’m assuming that amazon fire doesn’t care / better processing of edid than vm as it outputted dd without the edid manager box’s help.

      I agree with all, not a very common knowledge plus iffy support by manufacturers doesn’t produce a great customer experience

      Thanks for the help all
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