The Official KDL....EX700 Thread - Page 123

I wish I knew the best place to post this, but nothing seems to fit. Since my hardware is the 32EX700, I thought I would give it a shot here.

I have enabled TVGOS over the internet for program source in the past but found it would corrupt something that would kill Favorites or other function. A month ago I did a factory reset and scrubbed the TV.

I have cable only but no PSIP. My channels are vsb (2-25), clear QAM 26.0 through 128.1. 105.1 through 109.2 are HD locals.

On the info box, I see several vsb (analog) channels sometimes have the program name and even the running time. The time is blue. My time can still be set manually but it is also blue. No time set has happened because I have set it two minutes slow.

My query: what causes the program name? When should time update? Is there a better place to post this? I'm talking about analog channels. Is this a mistake by my cable company, SCTE-127, or just unknown?

Hi all, I used to be able to get 5.1 audio from my KDL-EX700 on the optical outputs when I streamed Amazon on Demand movies that supported 5.1. I've noticed that sometime over the past few months, that I no longer get 5.1 from the optical outputs (down to 2.0). Was this feature disabled in a recent version of the firmware?

Right now I have the internet connected to my Bravia and feed the optical output into my 5.1 receiver.

Is anyone else able to stream Amazon on Demand into their TV and use the optical output to pass through the 5.1 audio stream right now?

Thanks in advance for the help.

JP

Does audio from the tuner still come through in 5.1? When tuned to a network like CBS I show 5.1 from the optical. There are plenty of Amazon problem threads on the forum. I'm running the latest (114AAL) firmware.

Test it by hooking HDMI from a bluray player to the TV and run the optical from the TV to your receiver and see how that works

Ah, input lag.
Been reading this thread for 2 hours, searching up and down, googling and what not.
Still haven't found any conclusive info on the input lag?

I see some folks were very happy after a firmware update, and it got good marks for the input lag on iffy review sites (testing input lag with 2 lcds is stupid and pointless).

Can someone point me to some proper tests?

Could you be more specific and/or define your "input lag"?

Seriously?
"My" input lag = is the time from a picture is generated by the source to the picture appearing on the screen. As CRTs don't have input lag, the easy way to measure it is by outputting a test to both CRT and the LCD simultaneously, and recording the dime difference. One could also use the Leo Bodnar’s Lag Tester, but CRTs are a bit easier to source.

As I was saying, I could not find hard data on the Ex700, just opinions.

What was the point of the exercise Joe, as I doubt that after 5.5k posts here you have trouble understanding me.

i have 32ex720

71x, 72x use Samsung s-PVA panels so they don't have much in common with ex70x series.

I understand now. You were posting a game question. I have never done that (except at Vegas). I'm sorry, I never would have responded if I knew it was about playing games.

Fine idea...tonight I just gave that a try and I do get 5.1 from the TV optical out into my receiver while using the TV cable tuner input. So it can pass 5.1 from the cable input. I did try to see if I could find another internet based video source from the TV that would send 5.1, which would allow me to see if it is an Amazon problem or if it is a Sony problem/limitation sending 5.1 from an internet source. I had a hard time finding any other internet video sources with 5.1 that I could test with. Does anyone know of any internet video source that I could use that would send 5.1?

I do know that for an extended period of time (at least a year) Amazon on Demand did work for me with 5.1 sound on movies that had it. Does anyone have the TV sending 5.1 on the optical output working with Amazon or Netflix?

JP

You might find this helpful. Last post especially.

 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/how-do-i-enable-51-surround-sound-when-watching/78b170a5-4e67-4271-bc51-ebf64144a24c

Ah, thank you for sharing that. So it is possible that Amazon is no longer passing 5.1 in its movie streams--that is good to know. I'm going to see what I can find out on that one. I agree with the thread--we just need a method to select the proper audio stream.

JPE