I would like to route the HDMI output of my WDTV Live Plus to my TV, and at the same time use the S/PDIF output to feed a DAC that is connected to a stereo amplifier. Is this possible? Can I use both digital outputs simultaneously? I want to do this because I’ve heard that the WDTV Live Plus internal DAC will only output audio at 16bit/44.1khz quality. Thanks for any and all replies.
Thanks for the reply TonyPH12345. I use my WDTV Live Plus primarily for streaming audio to my hifi. Many of my audio files are 24bit/96khz flac files. What I’m going to do is run the digital audio signal out of the WDTV Live via S/PDIF into a Cambridge Audio DacMagic. It should sound better than the analog output from the WDTV Live (which is not bad, but not audiophile quality). Thanks again for the valuable information.
I have a WD TV Live Wi-Fi (WDBGXT0000NBK) connected via HDMI with my TV, LG LW4500 and I want to buy a home cinema more specially the LG HT806PH . The problem is that it can’t decode DTS sound.
If I connect my WD TV Live via optical to the home cinema will it play the DTS sound, or the WDTV will send it as is, to the home cinema for decoding?
Currently the TV that also doesn’t support DTS if a movie has DTS sound it plays fine!
If you have the WDTV set to “Stereo” then it will re-code the 5.1 DTS down to stereo and send that. That’s presumably why you get sound on your current TV.
If you set it to pass the DTS over optical, then it will send the full 5.1 to the home theater system, yes.