Folks,
I have an interesting question, what would happen if you take two sources like two dvd players, or two computers with sp/dif outputs using digital coax cable, put them on a Y adapter, and then ran the cable to the receiver? I know that digital is NOT Analog, so that is why I am asking. Would you be able to hear any sound, like good understandable sound, or would you get only garbage? Especially, if both sources are transmitting a signal at the same time? Would this break the decoder in the receiver, is this potentially dangerous, or would it be similar to putting a Y adapter on two analog sources and point them to the receiver?
The reason I am wondering is that we recently moved my computer and my wife's computer out into the living room, on the other side of the room from the entertainment center. We both have sp/dif out's on our computers. I have two dig coax in ports and two toslink ports on the back of the receiver. I would like to use one coax port for my main DVD player, one toslink for the other that we use as a CD player only, and then run a longer cable to the back of the room from the second coax input. Of course that means that only one computer can be hooked up, so I was wondering if a Y adapter to hook both at the same time through the same input would work. If not, then owell, I just won't do it. I would rather not break anything.
-capT
