consumer / pro digital formats

chuckg · 20th August 2005, 12:20 AM

This is a wild thought. Here at work we use an Alesis HD24 to record 8-channel audio for playback in our movie theater and planetarium. The HD24 has digital optical inputs.

Anybody know if those digital optical inputs are software-compatible with the digital optical output of your standard home-video DVD player or pre-pro?

We'd love to have true 6.1 audio in our theaters!

Thanks ahead.

rfbrw · 20th August 2005, 01:09 AM

I always thought the HD24 had 8ch optical ADAT inputs. DVD optical outputs are either IEC 60958 (2ch AES/EBU or SPDIF) or IEC 61937 (AC3/DTS etc.) and neither are compatible with ADAT.

20th August 2005, 12:20 AM	#1
chuckg diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: On the Space Coast	consumer / pro digital formats This is a wild thought. Here at work we use an Alesis HD24 to record 8-channel audio for playback in our movie theater and planetarium. The HD24 has digital optical inputs. Anybody know if those digital optical inputs are software-compatible with the digital optical output of your standard home-video DVD player or pre-pro? We'd love to have true 6.1 audio in our theaters! Thanks ahead.

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20th August 2005, 01:09 AM	#2
rfbrw diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: .	I always thought the HD24 had 8ch optical ADAT inputs. DVD optical outputs are either IEC 60958 (2ch AES/EBU or SPDIF) or IEC 61937 (AC3/DTS etc.) and neither are compatible with ADAT.