Sky Box Office - why no 5.1 sound?

[parapaul]

As per title really - all the regular movie channels are broadcast in 5.1 sound, as is a lot of the HD content now.

We've bought a few box office films over the last few weeks, but they've all been broadcast in lowly stereo We haven't tried Box Office HD, but the choice of films & start times on those couple of channels is very restricted.

Why? Why?

[only me]

Not sure about box office but have you connected the audio up by optical as i believe its the only way to get 5.1 from sky boxes.

Edited by only me on Monday 7th June 20:15

[headcase]

They dont broadcast 5.1 on box office if your thinking maybe its a fault. Maybe its a bandwith restriction no 5.1= more space for multistart.

[eliot]

pretty sure i've had 5.1 on box-office - unless its changed recently. (HD box, optical)

[parapaul]

eliot said:

pretty sure i've had 5.1 on box-office - unless its changed recently. (HD box, optical)

Yeah, I'm on HD with optical out too. I'll try a Box Office HD film this weekend and see if they get upgraded to 5.1 sound.

[headcase]

Just look in the listings and hit the i button, if there is DD listed there then its in 5.1

[LandingSpot]

parapaul said:

eliot said:

pretty sure i've had 5.1 on box-office - unless its changed recently. (HD box, optical)

Yeah, I'm on HD with optical out too. I'll try a Box Office HD film this weekend and see if they get upgraded to 5.1 sound.

You won't be able to get the HD audio via the optical out. For that, you'd need to connect via HDMI.

[headcase]

LandingSpot said:

parapaul said:

eliot said:

pretty sure i've had 5.1 on box-office - unless its changed recently. (HD box, optical)

Yeah, I'm on HD with optical out too. I'll try a Box Office HD film this weekend and see if they get upgraded to 5.1 sound.

You won't be able to get the HD audio via the optical out. For that, you'd need to connect via HDMI.

The optical out is just for the audio. When connecting to the TV with HDMI you still need to connect an optical to your surround decoder for 5.1, sky only sends stereo down the HDMI they dont use HD audio.

Edited by headcase on Sunday 20th June 10:21