Digital out from Humax Foxsat

[SteveR750]

I can't see an optical out on the back of the foxsat box, is there anyway of getting a digital out into a DAC?

 

[Dave_]

The Humax definitely has an optical output- As you look at the back panel,it's on the far right, next to the component video and stereo outputs.

 

[SteveR750]

I can see a blanked SPDIF port, 6 phono connections, but no optical out........

 

[John Duncan]

When you say 'blanked', don't you mean it has a little swing-in built-in cover instead of a plug in nipple-y kind of removable cover like they used to have...

EDIT - certainly looks like it from photos. If you push an optical cable into that 'blanked' socket, the cover should swing out of the way.

 

[simonlewis]

Isn't the blanked SPDIF port, the optical connection.

 

[John Duncan]

(jinx)

 

[SteveR750]

JohnDuncan:When you say 'blanked', don't you mean it has a little swing-in built-in cover instead of a plug in nipple-y kind of removable cover like they used to have... EDIT - certainly looks like it from photos. If you push an optical cable into that 'blanked' socket, the cover should swing out of the way.

Yes! But the socket looks like the squarey shaped connector that you run from a printer to a PC (with a USB at the other end). The dealer lent me a cable that has a circular shaped connector at each end with a pin like thing inside, whatvere it was it didn't look like it would fit, so I didnt try to insert it, matron. Now I know that's the right hole, I'll see if union can be made....

 

[markyd]

I have a foxsat hdr. I'm using the optical out into my amp.

Just
to add it happily passes MPEG4 audio, so 5.1 surround is happily
decoded by an AV amp. I imagine you would have to reconfigure for
stereo it if you had a 2-channel DAC and were watching BBC HD for
example.

 

[Andrew Everard]

SteveR750:Yes! But the socket looks like the squarey shaped connector that you run from a printer to a PC (with a USB at the other end). The dealer lent me a cable that has a circular shaped connector at each end with a pin like thing inside, whatvere it was it didn't look like it would fit, so I didnt try to insert it, matron. Now I know that's the right hole, I'll see if union can be made....

Sounds like your dealer may have lent you an electrical digital cable rather than an optical one. Either that or you have an optical one and the protective cap is still on the end of the optical fibre.