New AV Specialist Member

[Very Savvy]

Hello

My name is Grant and I am from SAV Distribution, a specialist Audio Visual distributer for the electrical contracting trade.

Please feel free to ask me all your AV, Home Cinema, Hifi, aand Multi-room audio related questions, I can even help with system drawing design and set-up advice.

Kind Regards

Grant

 

[ianmacd]

Welcome aboard.

 

[ElectekAir]

Hello and :Welcome:

 

[Apache]

Hello and welcome

 

[mikel]

Hi Grant, Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you'll be asked loads of questions about audio visual stuff:Welcome:

 

[green-hornet]

Hello and welcome

 

[a1]

Thank You.

 

[m4tty]

Welcome to the forum matey

 

[batty]

:Welcome:to the forum Grant and thank you for sponsoring us.

 

[kme]

Welcome in. I`d tell you to pull up a chair, but Apache broke up the last one for firewood last week.

note: need some new chairs.

I`ll start with a daft question, that I probably already know the answer to:

My 2:1 samsung surrond is connected to both by telebox, and sky+ box (HDMI to TV, and optical to sky+).

If we decide to watch a film we`ve "recorded" with sky+, and I bung the surround sound on, everything is just fine.......until we pause it. The surroun has to be muted in pause or FF, as it produces a note of approx 2KHz - not sinewave by the sound, more like a sawtooth, IYKWIM?

Once we start playing film again, the audio track gets "noisy" - sound`ll go off then come back, hiccup, have "scratchy" sounds attached.

I think this is the skybox`s optical output causing the problem. Is there a solution, or do you think the problem lies elsewhere?

KME

 

[Very Savvy]

Hello Kme

Yes I have heard of this before, it is normally due to an ageing Sky box, You could try connecting the audio using the Sky Box's Left and Right analogue audio connections and see if it stops, but you wont get the surround sound format using analogue. Its about time Sky got HDMI connections onto all of their box's and the audio over hdmi working!

Note: on Sky NEW HD box's the audio over HDMI is now active but it is only giving a 2 channel audio, you still have to use an optical cable to get the surround sound encoding out of the box!

SAV Distribution

Audio Visual Sales for the Electrical Contracting trade.

 

[kme]

Thanks mate - is what I expected.

I`ve already got the phonos in, but get annoyed at not having full functionality of the equipment we`ve got.....you know what I mean

KME

 

[binky]

HelloMy name is Grant and I am from SAV Distribution, a specialist Audio Visual distributer for the electrical contracting trade.

Please feel free to ask me all your AV, Home Cinema, Hifi, aand Multi-room audio related questions, I can even help with system drawing design and set-up advice.

Kind Regards

Grant

Hi Grant,

got a website??

 

[Very Savvy]

Yep the website is www.SAV-Distribution.co.uk

I will need to give you a login and username as it is strictly trade only

because it will show all your trade pricing.

PM me and i will set one up for you.

Grant

 

[ianmacd]

Thanks mate - is what I expected.I`ve already got the phonos in, but get annoyed at not having full functionality of the equipment we`ve got.....you know what I mean

KME

This is a similar problem that Arcam have with the optical out on sky boxes. The latest ones are even worse as they do not mute before changing the output stream so end up dumping a nasty sound out for a short time before the processor can resync the audio. On the older one it was just a blank time for a second or so which was just annoying but this new issue is very bad (esp when you may have just dropped best part of

 

[a1]

Grant,

Your "Contact Us" page does not work. Please can you correct that?!

 

[ianmacd]

Grant,Your "Contact Us" page does not work. Please can you correct that?!

Looks like the Anchor is missing the mailto: type.

 

[M107]

Hello & welcome Grant.

 

[SeánH]

Hello and welcome aboard