Need an explanation

[thrlride]

Can someone please explain to me why I cannot play sound through my TV and stereo at the same time from my PS3?

I can't always use the stereo when I watch a movie so if I want to hear sound I have to go in to the settings of my PS3 and change the sound output to RCA. When I can play it through the surround sound then I have to go back to the settings and switch it to optical. My receiver nor my TV have HDMI so it may work with that, I have no idea...

It's really a hassle though and is inexcusable. My PS2 did it, my xbox did it and my 360 as well as my regular DVD player does it.

[Lord_Stewie]

Originally Posted by thrlride

Can someone please explain to me why I cannot play sound through my TV and stereo at the same time from my PS3?

I can't always use the stereo when I watch a movie so if I want to hear sound I have to go in to the settings of my PS3 and change the sound output to RCA. When I can play it through the surround sound then I have to go back to the settings and switch it to optical. My receiver nor my TV have HDMI so it may work with that, I have no idea...

It's really a hassle though and is inexcusable. My PS2 did it, my xbox did it and my 360 as well as my regular DVD player does it.

What i am guessing is that sony really wanted to give the consumer the ultimate experiance in Hi Def. I do agree with you.

[bdrex28]

Why would you want to?

Do you not have a surround system?

I'm just curious, not knocking it at all.

[jbuttler007]

What about a receiver with HDMI passthrough?

[thrlride]

Originally Posted by bdrex28

Why would you want to?

Do you not have a surround system?

I'm just curious, not knocking it at all.

I do have surround sound. I have the optical from the PS3 plugged in to that and the RCA from the PS3 to the TV. I cannot use the surround sound all the time and when I don't I'd rather not have to go to the menu of the PS3 and switch the output format.

Originally Posted by jbuttler007

What about a receiver with HDMI passthrough?

I have no idea but I'm sure that probably works. I could probably use the pass-thru on my receiver as well I just didn't want to configure it that way since I haven't had to in the past.

[CYMBOL]

I made a thread about this months ago. (I ended up getting no answers and most of the people thought I needed a professional installer cause I didn't know how to set up my system.)

Here was my post.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ht=malfunction

Hello all,

My PS3 malfunctioned the other day and man, I wish it would stay. Wondering if anybody else has/had this issue.

Basically, when I bought my PS3 I was discovered that I had to select HDMI (hooked into my T.V) or Optical through my receiver (the only way I can get DD/DTS - since my receiver doesn't have an HDMI hookup). Ok fine. But I had to choose one or the other, meaning I either had to use my receiver or my T.V. only.

I called Sony and asked if a future update would fix this. I explained that I didn't like having to go into the menu everytime I wanted to listen to a certain source. Heck, my old DVD player can be connect to two different audio sources and depending on which one I turn on (my T.V. or reciever) I hear sound. They said, "This is a hardware issue and there are no future plans as of this time to change this; however, they do understand my concern". Annoyingly short-sighted, if you ask me. Seems like a basic function.

Now then, the other day, all of a sudden - sound came out of my T.V. I turned on my receiver and sound was working fine from there too! Then, later it went away. It happened again a few weeks later and lasted half the day. I would love if this malfunction could stay. I don't always want a Home Theater experience everytime I play a game, and I don't want to have to go into the sound menu before every game/movie.

Anyone else had this experience or been able to find a work-around. Very curious.

(And as a side-note, the other day my Homecourt NBA played in DTS.) Strange.

Take it easy all,

My thread was "PS3 malfunction I'd like to keep". It went nowhere - just people arguing over what I meant. (I thought it was pretty clear).

Anyway, I still have times when all of a sudden sound works from my T.V. without the HDMI source being chosen. I don't have a HDMI receiver - so for now I"m stuck with this. But even if I did have a HDMI receiver - I don't want to have to turn on my receiver everytime I want sound out of my T.V.

This is a hassle and from my response from the PS3 reps - it can not be fixed.

[GamingPhantom]

the only thing that I did is use a y-adapter one goes into the tv and the other into my stereo.

[Iceman_II]

I could very well be wrong, but it may have something to do with how the signal is processed for output. Most standalones are hardware driven, but the PS3 is all about the software and the clock cycles, by not processing the signal for the non-used output, it may save processing power? It could also be that if you are outputing to TosLink a format that the RCA can't handle, such as bitstream, the RCA goes silent... have you tried setting it up for TosLink with two channel stereo? Not sure if it will work, but if you strip it down to the least common denominator, it may work.

When mixing and matching audio outputs, strange things happen, when I have the computer hooked up to speakers, it works fine, but when I hook up via TosLink to the Stereo, I loose the ability to control volume at the PC, the output becomes a line out, rather than a pre-amp out.

But you really have to admit, most people would not be playing audio over both the optical AND the RCA. As for this being "inexcusable"? Just a wee bit of a hyperbole isn't it?

[thrlride]

Originally Posted by Iceman_II

But you really have to admit, most people would not be playing audio over both the optical AND the RCA. As for this being "inexcusable"? Just a wee bit of a hyperbole isn't it?

True, most people would not play optical and RCA at the same time but I don't know another way to explain it. If my receiver is off the PS3 should still send signal through toslink and RCA. My real complaint is that it doesn't.

If it is truly a software issue that cannot be fixed then fine but if it is an oversight or a bug then I want it fixed because it tarnishes my experience.

For me, my $600 ps3 not doing something a $129 ps2 can do is inexcusable when it is pretty much standard these days.