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Old 05-24-2011, 10:40 AM   #6
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When I worked at the Sony Store - I was always told that the TV doesn't output proper 5.1 through the output Toslink - that it would only output 2 channel. I never read anything to support that - but I could believe it.

I do know that Toslink doesn't support the top audio streams, and that HDMI is the only one that would transmit the best things - but it totally depends on what your receiver is capable of decoding.
so should i just connect everything seperately to my receiver ?
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