I setup something very similar and it works!

I have an eclipse 55, BL90, BL6000 with Wisa receivers, ultra short throw projector, apple tv3 with optical out. 

For the 5.1 sound, I send the optical out on the Apple TV3 to the eclipse (wirelessly via a bluetooh transmitter and receiver because my eclipse is in another part of the room, I only use it as a sound processor when using the projector). I have the Apple TV directly connected to the projector for the video. 

The eclipse processes the surround sound and sends it to all the speakers via WISA. I am not using the eclipse as center speaker but you can definitely do that. 

vividstorm + UST is an amazing setup!

I setup something very similar and it works!

I have an eclipse 55, BL90, BL6000 with Wisa receivers, ultra short throw projector, apple tv3 with optical out. 

For the 5.1 sound, I send the optical out on the Apple TV3 to the eclipse (wirelessly via a bluetooh transmitter and receiver because my eclipse is in another part of the room, I only use it as a sound processor when using the projector). I have the Apple TV directly connected to the projector for the video. 

The eclipse processes the surround sound and sends it to all the speakers via WISA. I am not using the eclipse as center speaker but you can definitely do that. 

vividstorm + UST is an amazing setup!

mdwolman wrote:

Hi everyone, a bit of a random question.

I have an existing setup with an Eclipse 65, Beolab 5’s a front speakers, then 4000’s as rear speakers.

This is very much our daily driver, but we bought an LG short throw projector, along with a vivid storm acoustically transparent pop up screen for the occasional “big screen movie night”.

Does anyone know if it would be theoretically possible to use the optical line in for the Eclipse (to send audio from the LG projector), and utilise my existing surround sound setup, including keeping the Eclipse as the centre channel?

Thanks in advance!

Might work well, when the screen is properly positioned where the soundcenter is/the speakers are.

But you are heavily compromizing on the audio part if using bluetooth (as karlnyny does) - that won’t give you more than (cripled) 2 channel sound.

This might be fine for a lot of people - however, I’d rather want the proper sound as my movie experience (an Eclipse 65” isn’t small)…..and the ease of use.

After all - for most people - the sound is basicly the reason for spending a lot of money on an Eclipse 65”/a full B&O 5 channel setup.

Just my two cents.

Using the optical connection may be possible, but I am not sure whether you would have some lipsync issues/sound delay there…a test would show.

MM