Apnomis
Established Member
I've got 3d tv on the way and intend to watch 3d movies via my PS3. Unfortunately the more I read up on it the more I realise hdmi is not straight forward or user friendly and there is a lot of conflicting advice out there...
Currently all my equipment is connected to my Yamaha Rx-v3800 receiver and output to my tv. This allows me to get lossless audio from my PS3. Unfortunately it would appear that a 3d signal would not be passed through via the 3800 which means the PS3 would need connecting directly to the TV. If I did this though I would lose the lossless audio which I don't want to do.
My first instinct was to split the hdmi and send one to the receiver for the audio and the other to the TV for the 3d. But is this possible? I've read that splitters will downgrade to the lowest denominator so as the tv doesn't support 7.1 it won't give it to the receiver that can and as the receiver won't support 3d it won't give it to the tv. Making a splitter completely pointless!
Is this true? Is there a way around this? Splitting the sound from the picture seems like a pretty basic requirement, or has hdmi been created in such a way as to shaft you into upgrading everything in order to enjoy all the features at once?
Surely I can't be the first person to want lossless audio to their legacy receiver at the same time as wanting 3d on their new TV? Surely there's a cheap way to do this?
Currently all my equipment is connected to my Yamaha Rx-v3800 receiver and output to my tv. This allows me to get lossless audio from my PS3. Unfortunately it would appear that a 3d signal would not be passed through via the 3800 which means the PS3 would need connecting directly to the TV. If I did this though I would lose the lossless audio which I don't want to do.
My first instinct was to split the hdmi and send one to the receiver for the audio and the other to the TV for the 3d. But is this possible? I've read that splitters will downgrade to the lowest denominator so as the tv doesn't support 7.1 it won't give it to the receiver that can and as the receiver won't support 3d it won't give it to the tv. Making a splitter completely pointless!
Is this true? Is there a way around this? Splitting the sound from the picture seems like a pretty basic requirement, or has hdmi been created in such a way as to shaft you into upgrading everything in order to enjoy all the features at once?
Surely I can't be the first person to want lossless audio to their legacy receiver at the same time as wanting 3d on their new TV? Surely there's a cheap way to do this?