I tried going back to using the tv definitely made sure spdif and necessary options where set up on the tv's end, went out and got a digital coaxial and I'm getting the same white noise so I think you're probably right about the digital part of the receiver being the issue,
looks like I'm going...
For the life of me I can’t figure out 5.1 won’t work I’ve just installed all new speaker wires to all of the speakers, when I use any analog signal it works perfectly but not Toslink. The things I’ve tried so far are...plugging the Toslink in to my Tv To the receiver (using a fire tv) nothing...