Hi all, I've tried my best but can't find the answer to this, so please go easy on me.
I have two old Yamaha receivers: 373 and 673 (one's on a plasma I use for movies only). Right now I have an old Samsung F5000 and run my consoles into the Yamaha and then from that into my TV.
I need to work out how I can get Dolby Digital 5.1 (non-pro logic) surround sound from the new consoles (Xbox Series X and PS5) while also enjoying 4K, HDR, VRR, 120hz and all the rest of it.
Both consoles will output from HDMI 2.1. Neither of my Yamahas nor my Samsung do 4K, let alone HDMI 2.1. I am planning on buying the Sony 55" XH9296, which will be getting a firmware update to make 2 ports HDMI 2.1.
The problem is one of those two ports is also the eARC port. So I can't use that to route audio to the Yamaha, because I need to use both ports for the console input. The new consoles don't have an optical output.
So the only possible solution I can see is to run HDMI 2.1 x 2 (each console) into the TV, then output Dolby Digital 5.1 sound from the TV via optical to the Yamaha. As I understand it, this would mean setting both consoles to output Bitstream rather than PCM. The Sony TV appears to do 5.1 pass through over optical.
I can't test this solution with my current setup, of course, because my F5000 doesn't pass through 5.1 over optical. I've tried connecting my Xbox One X to the Yamaha via optical and I could get 5.1, so the Yamaha can definitely receive that signal OK. But I don't know if it'll work via the TV. I don't know for sure whether you can input via HDMI to the TV and then output only the audio over optical.
Can anyone help me? I've tried my best to research this but the above is as far as I can get on my own.
Thank you in advance for helping me. If I've left out any important info I can add it.
I have two old Yamaha receivers: 373 and 673 (one's on a plasma I use for movies only). Right now I have an old Samsung F5000 and run my consoles into the Yamaha and then from that into my TV.
I need to work out how I can get Dolby Digital 5.1 (non-pro logic) surround sound from the new consoles (Xbox Series X and PS5) while also enjoying 4K, HDR, VRR, 120hz and all the rest of it.
Both consoles will output from HDMI 2.1. Neither of my Yamahas nor my Samsung do 4K, let alone HDMI 2.1. I am planning on buying the Sony 55" XH9296, which will be getting a firmware update to make 2 ports HDMI 2.1.
The problem is one of those two ports is also the eARC port. So I can't use that to route audio to the Yamaha, because I need to use both ports for the console input. The new consoles don't have an optical output.
So the only possible solution I can see is to run HDMI 2.1 x 2 (each console) into the TV, then output Dolby Digital 5.1 sound from the TV via optical to the Yamaha. As I understand it, this would mean setting both consoles to output Bitstream rather than PCM. The Sony TV appears to do 5.1 pass through over optical.
I can't test this solution with my current setup, of course, because my F5000 doesn't pass through 5.1 over optical. I've tried connecting my Xbox One X to the Yamaha via optical and I could get 5.1, so the Yamaha can definitely receive that signal OK. But I don't know if it'll work via the TV. I don't know for sure whether you can input via HDMI to the TV and then output only the audio over optical.
Can anyone help me? I've tried my best to research this but the above is as far as I can get on my own.
Thank you in advance for helping me. If I've left out any important info I can add it.