[mythtvnz] No HDMI sound output in desktop (Mythtv ok)

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:13:20 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Chris Bannister
>> <cbannister at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:47:51AM +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 16 June 2014 05:50, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Thanks,I will try some variation of that.I have HDMI going to the TV
>>>> > then
>>>> > sound going from that to a high end stereo system.
>>>>
>>>> This may not be the best configuration depending on your TV.
>>>> Few TVs pass anything other than stereo to their output.
>>>> So you miss out on all the bitstreaming goodness.
>>>>
>>>> PC->Amp->TV is more flexible
>>>
>>>
>>> The average high end stereo system will sound better than the speakers
>>> in your TV.
>>
>>
>>
>> The average transistor radio from the 1970s tuned slightly off an AM
>> station broadcasting from the Cook Islands will sound better than the
>> speakers in most modern TVs.
>>
> The cows over my back fence sound better even when they are releasing
> flatus.I did my apprenticeship with Autocrat Sanyo,it's not just modern
> TVs.TVs have never had good audio systems.Even console style TVs whose
> cabinet had the opportunity to incorporate good audio design never took
> advantage of it.And today's thinner is better trend does nothing to allow
> for proper internal speaker design.
> Anyway, when they sell you that 3D TV that sounds like a duck quacking they
> can also sell you that 1000W per channel digital output stage,sound
> system.(funny,they never sound like 1000W.Todays watts must be smaller than
> they used to be)

Those are metric watts, commonly abbreviated to mW

:-)


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