[srb]

I do have a Fiio dac that I could use on the tv's optical out, but on some programming I get a really horrible noise...it's very odd.

Not really odd at all.  Some TVs don't have a menu option to mix 5.1 sources to stereo PCM at their digital output.  I'm assuming your DAC is a regular 2 channel DAC, and when fed a Dolby Digital or DTS signal, they usually make obnoxious noises (or with some DACs, nothing at all).

Steve

[ajzepp]

Not really odd at all.  Some TVs don't have a menu option to mix 5.1 sources to stereo PCM at their digital output.  I'm assuming your DAC is a regular 2 channel DAC, and when fed a Dolby Digital or DTS signal, they usually make obnoxious noises (or with some DACs, nothing at all).

Steve

ah okay, that makes sense cause I think it was with movies where it was happening the most

Do you have any opinion on these extractor things, Steve?

[G Georgopoulos]

thank god, we have extractors and analog signals from blueray players now that's awesome...