Surround Sound from normal Sky

[superkully]

Hallo,

Does anyone know whether the audio Sky send down has Pro-Logic(II) encoding? Seems a bit of a waste to have such good quality vision and all those movie channels and only give two channels foer sound...

cheers

[Ciaran]

I think Sky only support DD5.1.

[mid]

You've only got an analogue, DPL-encoded stereo out on the standard Sky boxes, so that's all you can use. Apparently Sky+ has an optical out that carries DD5.1 for some broadcasts, but I refuse to pay the ?10/month charge to find out.

I'm not aware of any hack you can perform to a normal box to extract the 5.1 bitstream, sorry.

[NeilMcRae]

sky+ has DD. PLus if you have sky premium packages you don't have to pay the 10quid
Sky+ is the nuts its enabled me to get the most out of sky.

Neil.

[superkully]

Cheers Mid, not too bothered about the DD5.1 for watching telly, DPL encoding is fine with me!

PS My Mum and Dad have Sky+, it's grand... until the box breaks... and then breaks again and again and again.

[charlaph]

So Neil, have you stuck a larger HD in there yet? I was reading about it over at avforums and it sounded very, very interesting, certainly makes Sky+ look more worthwhile for people like me whose wives insist on videotaping everything and then watching nothing (but don't tape over it!!!!)

[NeilMcRae]

not yet but i'll get round to it soon esp as they have fixed the small bugs with bigger drives now.

Neil.

[mid]

I know they waive the ?10 fee if you subscribe to more than one Premium channel, but I don't even have the one of them, just all the non-Premium stuff. The only sports I watch are on Terrestrial already, and I'm not paying for movie channels when I've got a metric shedload of DVDs in the house. Mind you, I'm not overly enamoured with having to pay ?60 for them to come out and plug it in, either...

If I do ever get Sky+, its for pristine recording of Midsomer Murders while I'm watching Top Gear.