Video Asylum

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on September 14, 2011 at 14:27:06

In Reply to: RE: Surely… posted by David Aiken on September 14, 2011 at 13:42:01

"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.