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post #1 of 9
1/3/07 at 4:59pm
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My PS3 is hooked up to my TV using component cables, video and audio. I am also using an optical cable that is hooked up to my receiver for surround sound. My question is why can't I have sound out on my TV and using the optical cable at the same time? The only way I have found is I can only have one (TV sound) or (Surround Sound), but not both. I can't believe Sony would overlook this feature, it works fine with my other electronics (DVD, XBOX 360, ect.) Any ideas?
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post #2 of 9
1/4/07 at 8:41am
I asked the same question yesterday in the Playstation forum section. With 50 view, I did not get one reply. It's a pain having to switch the audio output back and forward.
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post #3 of 9
1/4/07 at 8:57am
You want simultaneous TV speakers and receiver speakers to be on? Won't the sound clash?
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edit : assuming you really want to do this, you can take the pre-amp outputs of your AVR for L/R and hook that up to your TV's stereo input.

The combined sound for your TV and AVR should sound very strange though. You could selectively turn off the speaker button on your AVR if you only want TV sound and mute your TV if you only want AVR sound.
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post #4 of 9
1/4/07 at 10:47am
I don't know why Cduran want this configuration. For me, I want to let my 5 yr. old turn on the TV and the PS3 and not have to work the AVR for the sound. When I want to use the PS3 I want full audio from my receiver/speakers. So it's not really desiring simultaneous audio from the TV speakers and Receiver speakers, just want both avenues of audio to be accessible without adjusting the PS3 audio settings upon every switch.
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post #5 of 9
1/4/07 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by Liaury View Post

I don't know why Cduran want this configuration. For me, I want to let my 5 yr. old turn on the TV and the PS3 and not have to work the AVR for the sound. When I want to use the PS3 I want full audio from my receiver/speakers. So it's not really desiring simultaneous audio from the TV speakers and Receiver speakers, just want both avenues of audio to be accessible without adjusting the PS3 audio settings upon every switch.

That makes sense. Sony should have a fw upgrade to have a checkbox for the analog stereo to be always on.
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post #6 of 9
1/4/07 at 1:02pm
A little off topic, but I get surround sound via optical with games, but not Blu ray discs. With Blu ray discs I get 2 channel stereo. Please help?
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post #7 of 9
1/4/07 at 1:40pm
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Originally Posted by gamelover360 View Post

A little off topic, but I get surround sound via optical with games, but not Blu ray discs. With Blu ray discs I get 2 channel stereo. Please help?

Goto [settings]-->[BD Settings] [Audio optical settings] and turn on Bitstream instead of PCM. (PCM will downmix to stereo as multichannel does not fit on optical)
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post #8 of 9
1/4/07 at 3:12pm
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Like Liaury said sometimes I don't want to turn on my receiver and just want to turn on and play, but it seems with the PS3 this is not possible because it igoners that I even have the two analog connections unless I go through the menu, and switch ect. It's a pain.

Neo1965 - Yes I want both simultaneous TV speakers and receiver speakers to be on, or sometimes one or the other without having to go through the whole menu process, but like I said it doesn't seem possible. Sometimes though I do like to have both, and it doesn't seem to clash, at least with my 360, and my DVDs, and HD-DVDs.
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post #9 of 9
1/4/07 at 3:48pm
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Originally Posted by Cduran View Post

Like Liaury said sometimes I don't want to turn on my receiver and just want to turn on and play, but it seems with the PS3 this is not possible because it igoners that I even have the two analog connections unless I go through the menu, and switch ect. It's a pain.

Neo1965 - Yes I want both simultaneous TV speakers and receiver speakers to be on, or sometimes one or the other without having to go through the whole menu process, but like I said it doesn't seem possible. Sometimes though I do like to have both, and it doesn't seem to clash, at least with my 360, and my DVDs, and HD-DVDs.

If you have them both on, there might be positioning differences for the multi channel, the location of the sound in the movie will be off and the surround sound effect is definitely going to have problems. Good AVRs even come with a microphone and tools to finetune setting of each speaker to give you correct positioning for 5.1 or 7.1 speakers in your environment. This will give the best settings to experience sound from movies.

TV speakers are also weaker that dedicated ones --- even cheap bookshelves will sound better, so having them at the same time with your surround speakers will not sound good.

I do agree that your usage model makes sense and Sony should just release an upgraded firmware to enable the analog stereo to be always on. I think there is a thread started earlier to submit to the PS3 people. Perhaps you can ask in that thread.
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