If you were going to send to your stereo, you could still send the HDMI assuming your receiver is newish enough and has room for it, or you have an HDMI switch connected. The main point of the optical audio is that HDMI sound (for those who love sound) sucks. It is just regular sound, nothing special. Optical can carry full surround, 7.1, where HDMI cannot. The best thing you can get to make HDMI sound right over a stereo is an upconverting HDMI receiver, but it sounds about as good as an upconverting DVD player looks.
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amfs @ Dec 19th 2007 7:06PM
If you were going to send to your stereo, you could still send the HDMI assuming your receiver is newish enough and has room for it, or you have an HDMI switch connected. The main point of the optical audio is that HDMI sound (for those who love sound) sucks. It is just regular sound, nothing special. Optical can carry full surround, 7.1, where HDMI cannot. The best thing you can get to make HDMI sound right over a stereo is an upconverting HDMI receiver, but it sounds about as good as an upconverting DVD player looks.