Shy plus boxes have optical out which is the best one to use. Just keep in ind that not everything is broadcast in 5.1 despite sky claims about this.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Tonish
I was serious about the teenager thing... but if there isn't one handy, you need a separate feed from the sky box (if you use one) to the surround sound amplifier. The amp should have enough input connections for two or three separate devices. If no sky box, there should be some kind of "sound out" feed from the TV - either one special single connection, the name of which escapes me, for which you need a specific type of cable, or via two audio sockets.

Once you get the connections sorted, there's a whole mystery area to get into with the remote to get it to select the appropriate input for whatever device you want to listen to.

I appreciate the difficulties.
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