Anthem & Xfinity

I suggest you definitively confirm with Xfinity that the audio is indeed being broadcast in 5.1 with audio coming from all channels. As others have noted, I have heard that many on-demand programming is only in stereo regardless of what the signal is to the processor. So before driving yourself nuts, confirm that to be the case. The fact that you are getting 5.1 from other channels almost confirms this. I highly doubt the issue is with the Anthem and it's not a bandwidth issue with toslink or S/PDIF. You can get 5.1 just fine through those. Bandwidth limitation over those is only normally confined to lossless codecs.

yes Jdub, this is driving me crazy. can't do 2-channel!

hello all, hbo is in 5.1 but regular on demand networks are in stereo. the emotiva displays 5.1 and plays all on demand shows in 5.1 thur hdmi. the anthem will only play stereo on demand regular networks thur optical.

hello all,

i'm getting rid of the anthem.

If this is only because of the tv issue , comcast has admitted its a bug, and a simple solution for now is to use an optical cable which is what I've used from the beginning and can report it has worked well for 5.1 sources but there are still some on demand programing that is indeed still only dolby prologic.