Zeppo wrote:So all of a sudden, my Xbone has started sending digital 5.1 audio out when I watch TV from my cable box pass through. I'm not sure why it changed, but before it would send only two channel stereo out from what my cable box gave it. It would show up as 5.1 on my receiver, but only the front left and right were actually fed any audio (and perhaps the sub).
Today however, it is truly feeding all the speakers audio. I simply decided to switch the setting from Stereo Uncompressed to DTS Digital Surround in Settings while I was playing a game so that I could have better audio in the game. I just popped over to TV for a minute, and voila, suddenly and unlike before, I had true 5.1.
It's a very welcome change. I don't know how or why it works now when it didn't before, but I don't really care, although I am a bit curious. Maybe the culprit was my crappy twc dvr box sending stereo out through its HDMI out (I always had it setup to send audio over the s/pdif and the thing can't do both) and perhaps after a reboot, it is sending out 5.1. I have no clue.
f***in karma, I suppose. My Xbox stopped sending the 5.1 was getting before. I do wonder if it has anything to do with my DVR, which is the DirecTV Tivo model. That's what I get for trying to correct DB about the 5.1.
I had made some adjustments that was supposed to help avoid the freezing the TV signal. Some receivers have issues that can be corrected by switching to Energy Saving from Instant On. You lose turning on the console by voice, but everything else works fine. I had read that setting the DVR to output 720p was supposed to help stop the freezes. that didn't help, but I also lost 5.1 in the process.
I may try messing with it again, but I took the TV out of the console and am just running TV on it's on input. The plus side is that I do get instant on again, but I lost voice control during normal TV. While I do miss the TV through the Xbox, taking it out actually highlights how great of a console it is minus the TV stuff that was not fully baked.
My daughter had friends over, and they had a blast. although I had to make a separate account for one boy whose gamer tag is set to not let him play anything with too high of a rating. somehow, that included Forza, and it locked him out of Netflix. No one could watch when he was in the room. It was kind of funny. He's 16 or 17, but the console wouldn't let him play Forza?
But while I was upstairs, what I heard over and over again was, "That's so cool!"
