Any blue ray s550 compatible toslink switches?

[gary s]

I bought a three input to one ouput toslink or optical audio switch, from monoprice.com, which in the past I just had my dishnetwork and directv receivers connected to going to my one input surround sound system. Both those optical audio connections have worked fine.

I now have a sony bdp-s550 blue ray player which puts out no sound when I hook it up to the toslink switch with optical audio cable. If I hook up that same optical audio cable directly to my surround sound system it plays fine. So, as it seems to me and is agreed to by both a sony tech and monoprice tech, my toslink switch must not be compatible with the blue ray player. I don't see how this could be the case but it does seem to be the problem.



Does anyone know of a toslink switch with at least three inputs that is guaranteed to work with a blue ray player, hopefully with a sony s550?

Sorry it took me so long to explain just to get to my question!

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[KAB]

I'm side-stepping your question a bit, but does your A/V receiver have 5.1 analog inputs? The S550 decodes the audio itself, so you would be getting HD Dolgy and MTS, which you would not get using Toslink.

[HD MM]

I bought a three input to one ouput toslink or optical audio switch, from monoprice.com, which in the past I just had my dishnetwork and directv receivers connected to going to my one input surround sound system. Both those optical audio connections have worked fine.

I now have a sony bdp-s550 blue ray player which puts out no sound when I hook it up to the toslink switch with optical audio cable. If I hook up that same optical audio cable directly to my surround sound system it plays fine. So, as it seems to me and is agreed to by both a sony tech and monoprice tech, my toslink switch must not be compatible with the blue ray player. I don't see how this could be the case but it does seem to be the problem.

Does anyone know of a toslink switch with at least three inputs that is guaranteed to work with a blue ray player, hopefully with a sony s550?

Sorry it took me so long to explain just to get to my question!

A few things I need to know.......

1) What type of AVR do you have?

2) I assume you are using the switch because you have a lack of Toslink (aka Optical) inputs on your receiver, huh? How many digital audio connections do you need? How many does your AVR have?

3) Did you know that there is another type of digital audio connection through Digital Coaxial? Most AVR's have both Digital Coaxial and Toslink (Optical) inputs.

[gary s]

I'm side-stepping your question a bit, but does your A/V receiver have 5.1 analog inputs? The S550 decodes the audio itself, so you would be getting HD Dolgy and MTS, which you would not get using Toslink.

I do not spend much time in the home theater forum nor have I spent any time in the blue ray forum until I got my blue ray player recently so I am not sure exactly what is meant by A/V receiver but I am figuring it refers to my surround sound system which is actually a Samsung HT-WP38 home theater in a box type system with a regular dvd player and 5.1 Dolby by the optical audio input only, as far as I can tell. I do not know what 5.1 analog inputs are but the only other inputs my Samsung has for audio are a couple of sets of the red, white, and yellow ones for RCA cables, I believe. It also has one set of component out cables which I have going to my tv.

[gary s]

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A few things I need to know.......

1) What type of AVR do you have?

2) I assume you are using the switch because you have a lack of Toslink (aka Optical) inputs on your receiver, huh? How many digital audio connections do you need? How many does your AVR have?

3) Did you know that there is another type of digital audio connection through Digital Coaxial? Most AVR's have both Digital Coaxial and Toslink (Optical) inputs.

1.) Please see previous post.

2.) That is correct. Currently, I need three. One for a DishNet 622, one for a Directv HR-20, and hopefully one for my Sony BDP-S550 Blue Ray player. My Samsung theater in a box surround sound system has only one optical audio input.

3.) As far as I can tell I do not have a Digital Coaxial input. There is one connection that looks like it is for a coaxial cable but it looks like it says it is for an antennae.

I checked today at Best Buy, Walmart and Radio Shack and none of them have any Toslink switches so I guess I will have to get a different one online and hope it works. They all say they will work with blue ray players but I'm pretty sure the one I have now says the same. I was hoping to find one at a store in town, regardless of the price (well, within a little bit of reason) so I could just take it back if it doesn't work with my blue ray . I just happened to think maybe I should try Frys, which is about 40 miles away. Call them first, of course.

[KAB]

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I did some research on this. It seems that everyone is selling the same item. From what I've read, the problem comes from, this mentioned specifically, a Directv box hooked to it. Something to do with the optical signal not turning off with the receiver. Have you tried various 2-way combos? BD with Dish? BD with Direct? It seems these things will work fine until sat boxes get into the mix with non sat devices.

It might be time to think about a more versatile system.