Recently went down the rabbit hole of upgrading my soundbar with an older but better home theatre speaker system with AV receiver and needed this cable. Stumbled upon this deal, cheapest I could find was the UGreen brand on Amazon which is $13.99 for 2m, and the JB Hi Fi 1m for $8.95
Any reason not to connect the PS5 directly to the amp through HDMI?
not everyone has HDMI ports in there amp. Most still use optical or coax.
Surely it isn't close to "most" people? HDMI has been the standard for, like, 17 years at least
@DiscountForThee: HDMI audio still wasn't put on every single AMP out there. Alot for the last 20 years are still only optical and coax, I remember 20 years ago HDMI audio in amps was like high end amps.
thought the PS5 (or any other console) lags when connected to the TV via an AMP/Soundbar
Where would you get this idea? It is exactly the recommended method. And if you know someone experiencing this, then they are doing something very wrong. You never want your AV receiver to touch the video signals (no upscaling, no sharpening, no nothing)
@DiscountForThee: always thought connecting the console directly to the TV HDMI (assuming you have a spare HDMI port on your TV) and the Amp/Soundbar directly to the Arc/eArc gives the best result.
@DiscountForThee: Since the signals has to be now processed at the audio source first, prior to sending it to the TV, if you use the audio source's HDMI passthrough. Technically I believe there would be a minor lag (could be not noticeable unless playing fast paced games) due to the processing time. This is only applicable if you are using any consoles btw. If you use it for watching content/movies it wouldn't be an issue.
Also, you lose the VRR functionality unless your audio source has that feature. Sony's top line Speakers got that feature recently with the latest firmware.
https://www.whathifi.com/news/tested-the-big-gaming-update-f…
Since the signals has to be now processed at the audio source first, **prior to sending it to the TV **
This is the part which is doing things wrong. The video is passed through, untouched, and the audio isn't processed first, it is just processed and played by the same device. In real time, as soon as it is received. No additional latency
But yeah not all the AVR support the VRR features so that is a potential tradeoff you are right (although you'd be losing a lot of other benefits, such as audio)
Yeah, audio lag. Real bad when you're playing a musical/rhythm game like Rock Band 4/Rivals.
if you know someone experiencing this, then they are doing something very wrong
Why not just run the HDMI to TV and optical output from TV to amp?
Two cords, only need one (if amp can do it).
How are you going to send audio to your amp and video to your tv from ps5 with 1 cable exactly?
Old tech like this is always cheap online. e.g. $1.50 on Aliexpress (free ship with $15 total order, ~2 week delivery).
Normally the route I take but was too excited to wait for shipping this time around, so paid the convenience tax this time around
Great price on AliExpress
Yeah agree, Aliexpress can be the cheapest but you've got to be willing to wait a month.
Ain't that the truth.
make sure you get a HDMI audio splitter if your using this to connect to say a ps5 to your amp for surround.