....It CAN be done!
They say to use your Soundbox with non-Sky kit, you must use the optical input. That's fine for Dolby Digital and Stereo PCM, but no good for DTS-HD, Dolby Atmos and other bitrate-heavy codecs.
(The Toslink cable is perfectly capable of carrying these codecs, but the industry standard is ancient and does not allow it.)
...So why not connect your BD-Player to the Soundbox's HDMI IN? ...Because you get a blank screen. For years that's all I got, but now I have my Sky Glass and the Soundbox seemed redundant (£40 Cash at CEX, it was headed for.)
But trying it one more time, I got lucky and confirmed that any other way gives a blank screen. And this is what you do:
You need a Sky HDMI cable, and they are usually far longer than necessary, but get one, and stick the black end into the BD-Player. Now connect the pink end into the black HDMI IN socket on the Soundbox, then use any good-quality non-Sky HDMI cable to connect the Soundbox's HDMI OUT socket to the TV input, remembering to set your BD-Player's audio output to PCM. ....And it works!
My Sony Blu-Ray player also plays SACDs and DVD-A's. Will report back later if they work in Surround as well as stereo.
Full Multi-Channel Blu-Ray Audio via Sky Soundbox......
