Any blue ray s550 compatible toslink switches?

[bhelms]

Agreed - might be a good time to invest in a receiver, one that at least gives you the 5.1(7.1) analog audio inputs so you can take advantage of the lossless audio tracks on most BDs that the s550 will decode internally. For not a lot of money you could get a better A/V receiver that would accept the lossless bitstreams over HDMI and do the decoding as well. You'll have plenty of HDMI inputs for your other equipment and a lot of additional flexibility. Consider an Onkyo 606 (or whatever newer model is replacing it). Many in these forums are reporting the 606 widely available for $400 or less. You could keep the same speakers for now, but you will need a powered sub...

[gary s]

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.

Thanks for all the replies and thanks for researching KAB! The combination of receivers does not seem to be the problem as I hooked up the blue ray by itself to the switch, nothing else connected, and still no sound from the surround system.

I can't afford to upgrade to a new A/V receiver at this time since I just got a new tv and I only have the blue ray player because they gave it to me at no extra cost with the tv.

The reason I got the "home theater in a box" system I did was because it has what they refer to as wireless rear speakers. Although it does require a seperate little speaker receiver at the back of the room and the rear speakers have wires going to them from that.

[abisdabis]

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!

On the BD-S550 there is an audio out priority. You need to set it to Coax/Optical so the optical or coax will work.

[gary s]

I forgot to mention in my previous post that I have ordered a different switch online but I am expecting the same results but hoping for the best. The product info does say it will work with satellite receivers and blue ray/HDDVD but nothing about whether they would work in combination.

If I could get a switch that will only work for the blue ray if it is hooked up by itself that would be acceptable to me although not the optimum solution. It would be much easier to connect or disconnect toslink cables at the switch rather than the back of my surround sound system.

[gary s]

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On the BD-S550 there is an audio out priority. You need to set it to Coax/Optical so the optical or coax will work.

I do have it set to that. Thanks.

[abisdabis]

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I do have it set to that. Thanks.

Sorry abiut that. I mis read (read to fast).