Thanks bang1. I'll look into the default options soon.

 In the mean time I have received my SPDIF card for my PC and hooked up a digital coxial cable. I've connect the two L&R RCA s and the digital coaxial to A1. I've also selected this the A1 as the sound input for my PC in the connections tab in the menu. BUT it doesn't work! I get no sound when playing a 5.1 encoded video file. The sound does come through the analogue ports though...

 Got very frustrated and gave up late last night. Will do some more experimenting this weekend. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

D

how long is your spdif cable? is the spdif enabled on the sound card? the black bars left and right is that when you on the dvi input?

Firstly apologies for the delay in the follow-up.

The SPDIF (Digital Coaxial) is enabled on the sound card. After returning to play about with the PC after a few days it seemed to work (sort off).

If I play a movie with encoded with 5.1 audio- I get sound through the digital coax because I left the analogue L&R disconnected. If I play a normal stereo encoded file it only plays through the analogue L&R RCAs only.

Now I don't know if it is because I DON'T have a 5 speaker setup (yet) but any 5.1 sound through the digital coax sounds all stuttery and definitely not something you could listen to. Is this just because I am getting only partial channel audio through my BL7.1? Following on, if I DID connect additional speakers, would the sound come though all OK?

As for the black bars, they only appear when viewing terrestrial TV, not when viewing my PC display (through the DVI). As mentioned before the bars are dependent on the format selected.

DAG4R

Hi DAG4R,

Did you ever find a solution to the Digital Audio problem, or is just plain impossible for an early version of BV7-32 play digital audio?

By the way, did the software update make any changes to the DVD menu and facilitate DVD operation in general?

Thanx in advance,

Toby

Hi,

I have not been able to affectively test whether the digital audio is working 100% correctly. I do get an audio signal from my PC to the TV but it is stuttery.

As for the DVD playback, I think there has been a change in the menu operation but as I don't play DVDs very often it hasn't been very noticable to me.

Thanks,

DAG4R

hi there,

sorry to raise a rather old topic again. i got by bv 7 32in in january 2007, being promised it'll have no problems with any hd content even though i was a little suspicious about the set only having a DVI socket. i know now that it doesn't make a difference for video content indeed. so the sales guy wasn't lying. what i (as others too) had to find out with the arrival of a ps3 in my living room is the bv 7's inability to deal with digital audio. i have experimented with loads of different option but can't get the set to play any digital audio that's coming from the ps3. i know that the ps3 is not faulty and neither the optical to coax converter. if i plug the whole lot into my old denon amp (ancient technology from 2001) it has no problems whatsoever to deal with the dolby digital streams that come from the ps3.

it seems however that there are some people out there who have managed to make the set play only digital 5.1 sound but no 2 channel audio. that would be fine with me since the content i'm interested in and that's coming from the ps3 is all 5.1.

so if anybody out there has a hint of what i can do to make that work, it'll be most appreciated!!!

i have been always a big fan of b&o but i feel really let down here. the price tag makes it even harder to accept such shortcomings...  🙁