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Hdmi and fiber optic splitter?

post #1 of 10
12/7/09 at 1:41pm
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I currently have my cable box and xbox 360 hooked up to my denon receiver via hdmi for vidio and fiber optic for audio and then one long hdmi to my panasonic ax200u. The issue is my receiver only had two hdmi inputs and two fiber optic inputs and I just bought a ps3.

I know there are hdmi spliters but are there fiber optic splitters?
Or even better is there a box that splits both hdmi and fiber optic?
If so does anyone know where I could buy these things?

I'd like to have one input as the tv and then one as both xbox and playstation
any ideas?
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post #2 of 10
12/7/09 at 2:14pm
Just buy a HDMI switch and use the HDMI to carry both the sound and video. HDMI sound is better than optical.
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post #3 of 10
12/7/09 at 7:20pm
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Really? I thought fiber optic was better.

Regardless, my receiver does not support audio over hdmi so I have no choice but to run both.

Is it splitters that I need?
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post #4 of 10
12/7/09 at 7:30pm
I would be surprised if your cable box audio could not be connected by coax. any reciever has more than 2 inputs.
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post #5 of 10
12/8/09 at 3:21pm
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It does have coax as does my cablebox but I really don't know anything about coax audio..do I just need a digital coax cable?
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post #6 of 10
12/8/09 at 4:15pm
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It does have coax as does my cablebox but I really don't know anything about coax audio..do I just need a digital coax cable?

Monoprice has a new HDMI splitter that will work for you. It has 4 HDMI inputs, and outputs the video by HDMI (in my case direct to my TV) but the audio can go by Coax to my receiver.

My only issue is that so far my Harmony won't control the HDMI switch, but I haven't spent time to trouble shoot this yet
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post #7 of 10
12/8/09 at 4:20pm
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Originally Posted by ex_action_figure View Post

Really? I thought fiber optic was better.

You can't play TrueHD audio or other lossless audio without HDMI.
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post #8 of 10
12/8/09 at 5:36pm
Coax will be fine from your cable box. You are not going to get trueHD from your cablebox anyway regardless of the cable used. Only from Blu-Ray.

This little $3.58 cable will do the trick:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2
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post #9 of 10
12/9/09 at 5:05pm
I have a similar issue. I bought the Oppo hdmi switch and I have PJ 4K pic with my cable and PS3. My problem is that I need to use the fiber optical on my receiver (yamaha) and my PS3. I have no sound on the PS3 but the cable is fine. Do I need to switch something on the PS3 so it searches and uses the optical?
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post #10 of 10
12/3/12 at 10:23pm
fiber optic is always better for long distance transmission , but not practical and too expensive for short run
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