Digital Cable Box

[devils3023]

Originally Posted by gvortex7

If your cablebox has an optical or coaxial input than plug that puppy into your receiver. Otherwise, plug the receiver into the television's optical input and get your surround sound that way.

HUH??? Cablebox's don't have optical/coaxial inputs, they have outputs. Also, how does plugging your receiver into your tv via optical connection, which most tv's don't have and is pointless anyway, give you surround sound? It doesn't. Simply plug your cablebox into your receiver via optical/digital coax and then hdmi/component to your tv and call it a day. You can run the hdmi to your receiver and then receiver to the tv but it's of no benefit since cable hd programs only offer dolby digital 5.1 and not pcm or any other lossless audio format.