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In Reply to: RE: only if it's acceptable to leave the display on [nt] posted by Joe Murphy Jr on September 11, 2011 at 14:03:33

since we're talking about the output from a cable box which also includes a video signal, he'll want the display on in order to view the video.

If there's no video signal in the output so there's nothing to view, then my Panasonic plasma allows me to turn the display off while still playing an audio signal. I have some digital radio stations in the digital TV frequency band here in Australia and I listen to them using the TV but with the panel turned off.

David Aiken

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mine provide better options - Joe Murphy Jr 14:27:06 09/14/11 (1)
"Surely... since we're talking about the output from a cable box which also includes a video signal, he'll want the display on in order to view the video."

I purchased my own tuners for the cable feed (not FIOS). The signals they accept are NTSC, ATSC and clear QAM (SD and HD digital from the cable company that's not scrambled). The tuners have various analog video outputs and a DVI output. The boxes have L/R analog audio outputs as well as optical outputs to feed downstream components with Dolby Digital or 2.0 PCM. I know where the digital music channels are, so I just punch in the station that I want to listen to (there's a numeric display on the front panel of the tuner). The DAC gets 2.0 PCM and the display doesn't have to be turned on when I want to listen to music that the cable company provides. For regular programs, the display is turned on.

Obviously, with his Motorola FIOS box, because the douchebags aren't providing Dolby Digital-to-2.0 PCM capability, he doesn't have this option if he wants to send the optical output to a stereo DAC. Hence his predicament.
- RE: mine provide better options - David Aiken 00:08:19 09/15/11 (0)
  I'm in Australia and the pay TV options here are very different from what you have. Actually I don't use pay TV. I rely on free to air transmissions for my TV viewing.
  
  As far as I know, you don't get a choice about what box you use with pay TV here in Australia, you simply use what the service provider gives you though they may provide some options, for example if you want HD programs, but they charge more for that as well.
  
  There's also some variation in the tv models offered by Panasonic here compared to what you get in the US.
  
  David Aiken

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