Waylander Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 laptop has hdmi out [although I understand sony have only set it to carry stereo sound!] it also has a headphones/speakers jack but no other audio-out interface. So currently I can only get "tv" sound when watching my BluRay movies. Anyway I can hook up a connection to my amp so that at least it will give me dolby digital to my 5.1 setup? currently the connections are: TO AMP: sky box [RCA] xbox [toslink] dvd player [coaxial] TO TV: laptop [hdmi] dvd player [scart] xbox [rgb component] sky [scart] I assume the only way is to run an RCA cable between the tv and AMP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 What exactly is it you are trying to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntW Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Waylander has a Sony laptop that has a bluray player, however the laptop only outputs stereo over the HDMI lead and he is trying to figure out if there is a way round it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted February 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Indeed. As usual nicely summarising my profuse drivel I think I might be cut out for a job with the UN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 A way around what? Ok, sorry, I'm going to make an assumption here - you're only getting stereo sound from your BD source (laptop) and you want to know if there's a way to get more, e.g. 5.1? I'd say no. Not unless your source, i.e. laptop, has a 5.1 sound card and can output such. And if what you say about your HDMI is true, then it sounds like it doesn't. Simply plugging a stereo output into an AV amp will not give you (proper) surround sound. It might 'fiddle' with the 2 channels and output stereo to all the speakers, but it won't be true 5.1, for example. I recently used my laptop to play an HD movie I downloaded. (My chipped xbox isn't powerfull enough.) I had the latop connected to my Plasma via VGA, but the only way to get audio was to connect the laptop headphone output to my AV amp. (I used something similar to this.) But again, all you get is stereo, as that's all that's being produced by the laptop. My AV amp can produced various surround effects, virtual speakers, etc, but it's still not true 5.1 surround sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 You sure you can't set the stereo/headphone output to optical?? This will give you DD and DTS then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 If you still find that you cant live without it then you maybe have to buy one of these.... Sound Blaster for Laptop PCMCIA Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted February 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 [ QUOTE ] You sure you can't set the stereo/headphone output to optical?? This will give you DD and DTS then. [/ QUOTE ] good question and I don't know. I have asked e-Support. It is stupid really as the Driver actually supports DTS and DD but for whatever reason they have crippled HDMI Audio output to stereo. Mind you, without an optical out [and no HDMI input to the Amp] that is irrelevant isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 What model laptop is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted February 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Sony Vaio FZ21Z. If you can sort a work-around for this gIzzE you will go from Guru to Demi-God status Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Reading up on various chipsets on laptops it seems that only a handful allow you to output >2 channels over HDMI, so the only option is to take a regular DD or DTS signal out digitally. Problem is your laptop doesn't seem to have a digital output on it. So looks like you are stuck with sending out Prologic only with films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Bugger. Unless I buy that Creative Sounblaster Live thingy I guess...[there are USB versions for about £35 IIRC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Yeah, any cheap usb sound card with an optical out will get you DD and DTS, not sure what HD sound formats you will get with them but at least it will be better than DVD quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 [sigh] expensive lark this home entertainment business! I am afraid this also means that due to Sony's ineptitude you only currently remain at Guru status [altough the capital-G is now permanent] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 You should be able to pick up a usb card for around £15 that does the job, and to be honest you would just leave this plugged in your amp anyway, so plugging in a usb cable into your laptop is just as easy as plugging in an optical cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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