the best audio conect. between dish ViP722 and onk 876

[Sounds Good]

at first thought i would think optical... but i am new to the HDMI world so i am not sure...

i am thinking they will be about the same the sat. reciever being the bottle neck...

 

[Adam]

I agree with you. At this time, the advantages that I see for HDMI over optical are (a) transmission of lossless audio formats and (b) audio and video over one cable.

I don't have Dish, but I sure don't think that they are using the lossless audio formats or any audio format that an optical connection can't support. So, I'd expect the audio quality to be the same over either HDMI or optical from that Dish receiver.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I agree with you. At this time, the advantages that I see for HDMI over optical are (a) transmission of lossless audio formats and (b) audio and video over one cable.

I don't have Dish, but I sure don't think that they are using the lossless audio formats or any audio format that an optical connection can't support. So, I'd expect the audio quality to be the same over either HDMI or optical from that Dish receiver.

Are there any TV stations that transmit lossless audio?

 

[Adam]

Are there any TV stations that transmit lossless audio?

Not that I know of. I haven't really checked, but I doubt that they would. I doubt that Dish will have it on their pay-per-view channels, either. Yet.

 

[Sounds Good]

I doubt that Dish will have it on their pay-per-view channels, either. Yet.

they need to better utilize the ethernet port...

 

[DaleAV]

Are there any TV stations that transmit lossless audio?

No, plus there are local network affiliate stations still broadcasting HD programs in ProLogic.

You are pretty much confined to optical outputs for most Sat or Cable receivers, in any case. Dolby 5.1 is 'state of the art' for TV broadcasting.
Be happy we have that!

 

[mtrycrafts]

at first thought i would think optical... but i am new to the HDMI world so i am not sure...

i am thinking they will be about the same the sat. reciever being the bottle neck...

Some components in the chain may have a some HDMI connectivity issues from time to time. If your sat box has HDMI use it but be prepared to use component cable and optical. Since sat will not have lossless audio until they broadcast BD movies, a huge bandwidth, HDMI would only offer convenience of a single cable run.

 

[Geno]

I have Dish, and the best they do is DD 5.1 over HDMI and optical.