Simultaneous audio on component output

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Hi all.

Apologies if this has been covered before. I did do a quick search before posting, but got nothing positive.

I am considering buying one of these, but can anyone tell me whether audio can be outout simultaneously from the HDMI, optical, and component audio outputs?

The reason I am asking is that I don’t yet have an A/V amplifier, so I want audio from movies etc to go to a TV surround sound system, (initially by optical), and music to go to a seperate hifi system. Ideally, I don’t want to have to change the audio settings each time…This would severely damage the wife aceptance factor!

Cheers.

Al

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COMPONENT does NOT have audio.  Component is video only.

HDMI and Optical do work simultaneously, but there are some audio types that do NOT work on Optical because there isn’t enough bandwidth.

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The RCA audio outputs on the back should work OK with HDMI. I watch via HDMI on my TV and feed audio via the rear sockets to my amp.

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Thanks for the replies. Sorry, when I mentioned component outputs, I mean’t the composite ones…Oops!

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Not sure if this answers you’re question but

I have my WD TV LIVE HUB connected by HDMI Cable to the TV (i do not have the cable for HD Sound)

Then i have RCA cables running to a “very old” surround sound system.(doesnt even have option for hd optical sound)

I still get the sound from my TV, as well as the sound from my surround sound system simaltaneously.

So sound plays thru the HDMI to my tv outta my speakers built into the TV, and also plays on my surround sound system thru the composite cables (only problem is that the sound between the 2 (the tv and the surround) is a fraction of a second off from each other (out of sync with each other but just barely) therefor making it sound bad(so i mute the TV and just play the surround sound speakers)

Does anyone know why the sound would be out of sync like that? It’s not like BLATENTLY 3 seconds off… it’s truely a fraction of a second, barely noticable, but once noticed makes it impossible to deal with… that sorta thing ya know/? Does anyone have any idea why that would be? or even have any guesses? any possible information on how i could fix this would be awesome as i would like to be able to use my TV speakers with my surround sound (as some movies i have, have very low sound which makes me have to use the TV speakers instead of the surround sound)

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Since the TV is receiving a digital signal, it has to decode it first.   The Analog signal coming out of the RCA jacks doesn’t have to be decoded, so it’s going to be a fraction of a second ahead of the sound coming from your TV.

No way to fix it.

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Sounds like it may work like I was hoping then. The Video / audio for movies etc can go to the TV and surround sound system via HDMI, and I can connect the Live Hub to the hifi by RCA leads for listening to music.

Thanks to all for the replies. Much appreciated. In the end, I went ahead and ordered one anyway. Just waiting for it to be delivered this afternoon :smiley: