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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
I think it does as I was about to ask that question. In short, if I HDMI my 360 for an example to my reciever but also want the optical sound out on my 360, it wont automatically use the optical sound over the HDMI, I have to specify that in a setup menu? Optical sound would be superior to HDMI, would it not? I assumed that the reciever would automatically pickup on the optical sound and use that over the HDMI sound.
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Audio over
optical or
digital coax is not superior to audio over
HDMI. As long as your receiver can process audio over HDMI, I would definitely stick to using a single HDMI cable for everything whenever possible.
There are even specialized high-resolution and "HD audio" formats that are made available by HDMI and not optical/coax (ie.
DSD via SACD;
DTS-HD MA;
TrueHD). Your system may or may not be capable of these formats apart from the connectors used.
EDIT: Too slow. nevermind.