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It's our international show with an Australian phone, U.K. laptops for life and bandwidth troubles solved for a South African.
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The second option and hopefully the one that can help is outputting the signal via the analog outputs. Let the player do the processing and output the signal via the 5.1 analog cables(RCA).
The third way is to use the digital outputs s/pdif outputs either optical ore coaxial. While this option is not preferred you will experience a slight improvement in signal since the original material is encoded at a higher bit rate but will not be near the quality of using either of the previously mentioned solutions.
Remember the new blu ray disc are capable of 7.1 channels of surround sound and if your receiver is only capable of 5.1 channels you will not be able to receive all those channels. If you go the analog route you will need to experiment which rear channels you prefer since you have 4 to choose from 2 on the side and 2 on the rear, I would go with the rear channels. If you go with the optical or coaxial way the player will output in dolby digital not the plus or ture hd.
Link to the article just incase of any misrepresented information on my part
tp://www.dolby.com/consumer/technology/trueHD/avrs/trueHD_avrs_2.html
Hope this helps
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by iansl_tx
December 6, 2008 11:19 AM PST
- Regarding the ActionTec router, a few tips:
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(3 Comments)1. For cordless phones, the best option at this point is probably getting a DECT (or DECT 6.0 in the US) phone set. The phones run in the 1900 MHz band, near (but not overlapping with) where phones from Sprint, T-Mobile etc. run, and the audio quality is digital and solid. I have a set from Uniden that you can get at pretty much any store and they work great.
2. ActionTec's router has coax input for the internet side of the network connection. This will prove to be a problem when replacing your router (which I would go ahead and do...Linksys WRT54GL if you want cheap, WRT310N if you want midrange, WRT610N or Airport Extreme if you want high-end I'd say). The solution: run ethernet from your fiber box to your new router.
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