optical to coaxial digital audio adaptor?"optical video

[lumis]

okay.. i've got my HD video setup going very well with a DVI cable.. everything looks good.. now i'm trying to get everything to sound good.. dolby 5.1 good..

my sony reciever has a digital coaxial input & something i've never seen before, an "optical video in".. i think it's a mistake, i've never seen an "optical video in" before.. i'm guessing it must be a mistake.. my HD reciever only outputs 5.1 from optical out.. so just incase i'm mistaken and the "optical video in" truly is optical video, is there an adaptor that will let you connect optical to coaxial?

has anyone ever heard of optical video in?

[dragomu]

Are you sure it's not for audio?

[psx_pirate]

Use a toslink optical connector from the hd reciever to the sony device ... it's an optical audio input .. the 'video' indicates the source you would select (either on the main unit or via the remote) ... ie you would select video(or vcr) as opposed to tuner, cd or tape etc ... i have a technics system that is similar but has 3 optical imputs labelled as follows..
optical cd in
optical dvd in
optical video in

if i connect everything using toslinks i would select dvd as the input to hear the sound from my dvd player or video(vcr) to hear the sound from my vcr or cd for sound from my cd player etc...

the reason for this labelling is that as well as optical connections there are also analogue connections for cd,dvd and video (vcr)

[redwudz]

The toslink optical audio hookup is generally the best quality. (Immune from electrical interferance.) The coaxial is next best, then regular RCA phono with either the separate jacks for 5.1 or just the two stereo.

The toslink cables come with little covers over the fiber optic ends. I just mention this because I spent 15 minutes trying to plug them in when the connector wouldn't fit. I pull off the caps and orient them properly and they work fine.

[lacywest]

Their are adapters that will convert the optical signal to a coax signal ... I use one for my Pioneer 915 A/V receiver