5.1 over HDMI?!

[Friction]

Hello all!

Couple of questions, because I'm not to clever with these kinds of things.

I want to get one of these Sony HT-SS1300 and connect my 360, PS3 and DVD Player to it.

The amp has 3 HDMI in - one for Blu Ray, one for DVD and another. Question is, if I connect all 3 of my devices to it via HDMI will I get proper 5.1 sound?

Am I right in thinking I wouldn't need to bother with optical at all then?

Has what I said even made sense?!

Cheers!

[sj33]

You will, yes.

You will get Dolby Digital and DTS, which any game will be using.

For Blu-Ray, while the amp does not support HD Audio codecs (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD), it does support LPCM 5.1. So if you set your Blu-Ray Player to decode the audio and send to your amp as LPCM 5.1, it should work fine.

[Friction]

Thanks for that!

My Blu Ray player is my PS3, I've already checked out the settings in the PS3 menus and there is one for BD/DVD audio and it's currently set to Linear PCM so it should work straight out the box right?

[sj33]

Not tried myself, but that definitely sounds right.

[Friction]

Thanks for the info

Have to see once I get the amp I guess