Yeah I had a look at the back of your "receiver" and the only way you will get HD audio is by playing a BluRay disc in your actual LG player/receiver.
It's really limited to be honest with you. You can only plug one other thing into the back by way of the optical and you cannot do DTS HD or Dolby True HD over optical. At best you can have DTS and DD from one other device plugged into the optical in.
Honestly you'd be better off to get a low end receiver from Yamaha/Denon/Pioneer/Sony even etc. at $299 price point and piece together the speakers by going used off craigslist, getting old speakers off family/friends etc. you can even not bother with a subwoofer and go 5.0 but having options to input other devices is pretty important. You basically have a BluRay player that has internal amplification.....oh well.
ASTRO Gaming still provides a Dolby ® Headphone 7.1 experience on the Xbox One – even from a stereo input.
Microsoft’s decision to drop Dolby ® encoding on their SPDIF output at launch does have ramifications for ASTRO’s products. While our products do not process DTS signals, we do have on-board Dolby ® encoding in both our A50 Wireless Transmitter as well as our Wired MixAmpTM Pro. An Xbox One gamer will need to select Stereo output for game audio, but our MixAmps will process that stereo signal with Dolby ProLogic II and encode it with Dolby ® Headphone – *the* gold standard for simulated 7.1 Surround Sound for gaming headphones. So have no fear gamers, your ASTRO’s will still provide a Dolby ® Digital Surround experience no matter what your console choice.
You can read more about Dolby Headphone here (http://www.dolby.com/us/en/consumer/technology/home-theater/dolby-headphone.html)
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So this is a software thing? I figured the problem was lack of the necessary hardware.It's coming.
Microsoft's Albert Penello has taken to addressed the absence of Dolby Digital output via optical cable at launch.
"Dolby Digital is coming post launch," he writes. "This was a SW scheduling issue pure and simple, and I know people are disappointed, but we will have it. Anyone with an HDMI receiver should be fine, as we pass the uncompressed 5.1 and 7.1 through HDMI as well as DTS. Even if you have a Dolby only HDMI receiver (which I'm not sure exists), you will still get 5.1 or 7.1 sound since those receivers should accept uncompressed surround. For the Dolby only headsets, my understanding is that these will work but you will only get stereo audio since we only pass Stereo and DTS through the optical port. I have not tested this myself, but I'm told it works. Regardless, I understand this is an inconvenience, but again we're going to have Dolby coming."
The hardware IS there.. Optical port receives the signal. Codec (software) decodes it.So this is a software thing? I figured the problem was lack of the necessary hardware.
Ok cool. I honestly know next to nothing about audio stuff.The hardware IS there.. Optical port receives the signal. Codec (software) decodes it.
LOL...pretty muchSo just to get this straight....cause it's not 100% clear right now. Dolby Digital with optical doesn't work, but it DOES work with HDMI? And DTS with optical?
LOL...pretty much
Optical
HDMI
- DTS
- Stereo
Everyone that has a system that has optical input that is DD only will get stereo until the update.
- All expected formats
Does your receiver not do DTS decoding? All but maybe the first year digital receivers will accept and decode DTS, as well as DD.Encouraging but when s it coming. Sound is very important to my gaming and I am still using DD 5.1 through Optical cable.