Can Red & White RCA produce Dolby 5.1
I only have 2 digital inputs into my home theater system(one optical and one digital coax). If I hook up a 3rd componant using the standard red & white RCA jacks. can I get Dolby 5.1 out of them????
Thanks
Correct me if I'm wrong but
What the other responses didn't even mention is that I believe you can get a digital switcher, not unlike a USB hub computer users use, to switch between digital inputs in your very scenario. Unfortunately, I don't have a handy web link to provide you, but I'm sure someone on this board could direct you to what I'm talking about. Or maybe I just need to be carted off in a tight jacket.
Why is nothing ever simple?
The red and white jacks comming out of your TV may or may not already have 5.1 information extracted. In other words they may be designed to feed front left and front right speakers instead of providing all the stereo information for a post processor to extract ambience information and drive your surround system. Notice I said ambience, you can not recover true surround from 2 standard audio channels.
Most of us use external audio processing (i.e. a multi channel reciever) to provide sound for home theater thereby solving this problem. They all have record loop outputs and will even switch the stuff automatically for you.
I know it's asking a lot but you could try your TV's manual. :)