Hi do I get 5.1 sound sound? Do I have to use the HDMI-to-DVI cable? And how do I get 71. sound?

Question

Thank you!

I am sorry for my spelling. My question is "How do I get 5.1 sound?

Answer 1

Generally your TV only has stereo speakers. You need to send audio to a AV Receiver that has 5.1 or 7.1 speakers attached. This does the decoding and gives you 5.1 or 7.1 sound.

HDMI will send sound to the TV with the video. But unless you feed the audio from the TV to a AV Receiver - you are using the TV stereo speakers. It's not 5.1.

You mentioned "HDMI-to-DVI". This only passes the video, not audio. If you have an older DVI television, follow the first advice and send optical to an AV receiver for the sound.

Answer 2

You can only get 5.1 sound on a home theater receiver, also sometimes if you have a 7.1 receiver you can use a decoder which allows 7.1 sound but it's not always as great sounding since most movies out there aren't made with 7.1 I think that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray support 7.1 movies.