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Hi,

I recently upgraded all my home theater stuff, got a new tv, sound system etc etc.

But i'm having a few issue setting up my Home Theater System, its a SONY MUTEKI HTDDW1600 (http://www.cnet.com.au/hometheatre/homecinemakits/0,239028683,339280044,00.htm)

basically i want to know is it best to connect all my stuff (dvd, blueray, ps3 etc) into the receiver then connect the receiver to the tv, or to do it the other way dvd, blueray, ps2 -> tv -> receiver.

the receiver has HDMI plugs, so connecting the ps3 and blueray isn't a problem :D

im looking for the best sound and picture quality

Cheers Michael

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Go through the receiver so you can control it all by the receiver.

Does your TV have HDMI In? and your receiver have HDMI out?

With all your players, go hdmi to the receiver and then 1 monitor out hdmi cable into the tv.

Unless your tv has an HDMI out, i don't think you can go from tv to receiver lol. But would beat the point of the receiver.

Players --> Receiver --> TV.

Kaido_RR Grand Master

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Go through the receiver so you can control it all by the receiver.

Does your TV have HDMI In? and your receiver have HDMI out?

With all your players, go hdmi to the receiver and then 1 monitor out hdmi cable into the tv.

Unless your tv has an HDMI out, i don't think you can go from tv to receiver lol. But would beat the point of the receiver.

Players --> Receiver --> TV.

Thanks :D

atm i have everything connect to the tv and then just one audio out cable connected from the tv to the receiver.

yeah tv has HDMI in and receiver has both HDMI in and out

Owgasm Grand Master

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I'm taking that the audio cable is just a standard one and not hdmi/optical/coaxial.

If you run through your receiver the sound quality will be alot better, running through the hdmi cables.

Give it a go.

This way, you don't have to change your AV/Source on your tv all the time. Cause the receiver will be connected to only 1 port.

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good info here,

Ok now to through a spanner in the works on Mikes thread

I have a 50inch panasonic plasma connected by HDMI cable to my panasonic home theatre system, whenever I try to get the home theatre system to play all the HD channels that are meant to be in 5.1 no noise comes out at all, I thought the HDMI cable from tv to receiver (which is built into the DVD player) would also play TV sound as well.

The aerial gos straight from the TV into the wall, should that go into the DVD player/receiver then to the wall????

bit off subject but kinda to do with sound etc :-)

Owgasm Grand Master

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good info here,

Ok now to through a spanner in the works on Mikes thread

I have a 50inch panasonic plasma connected by HDMI cable to my panasonic home theatre system, whenever I try to get the home theatre system to play all the HD channels that are meant to be in 5.1 no noise comes out at all, I thought the HDMI cable from tv to receiver (which is built into the DVD player) would also play TV sound as well.

The aerial gos straight from the TV into the wall, should that go into the DVD player/receiver then to the wall????

bit off subject but kinda to do with sound etc :-)

I didn't quite understand that. But this is what i gather(not much lol):

You've got the aerial running from your wall direct in to the 50" plasma. That would mean you have a built in tv tuner in the plasma.

Unless theres a audio out/hdmi out from your plasma and you've actually used it, you wont get any sound. Just sound from the plasma.

The receiver? As in an external HD Tv Tuner? Or the home theatre system receiver?

Taking it as system receiver. You have to run some sort of audio cable from your tv to the receiver. No need to be hdmi, but if thats what its go, it will work. Cause hdmi, produces sound and picture. and you don't need picture going into your receiver if its on the plasma already.

I think all you need to do is - see what OUTPUTs you have on the plasma. Check the manual.

May have HDMI, optical or your standard red/white which you shouldn't use, unless its the only one.

Plug the cable from the plasma OUT into the receiver IN where it says TV or whatever your settings are.

Then the sound should come out.

Maybe, i've read what you've said wrong. Then the above is worthless.

Let me know

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No no your right, pretty close.

Yes the tuner is in the plasma (panasonic Viera) I have a HDMI cable running from the back of the plasma into the back of the DVD/reciever.

It is a Panasonic wireless home theatre system, so the DVD amp receiver is all part of the DVD player

So the HDMI cable runs from the back of the plasma into the back of the DVD player.

This means I can watch DVDs in full surround sound which sounds awesome!! but whenever i try to watch say..... the footy for example which is advertised as being 5.1 it just wont work! i have tried every option the stereo system gives me to try and get sound working but no sound comes out what so ever?

I thought the HDMI cable fom the back of the TV into the DVD player would have been all that is needed.

Owgasm Grand Master

Owgasm

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Is the HDMI coming out from the tv... an OUTPUT from the tv/tuner?

I'm also taking that you've only got 1 cable connecting tv to the system. This would mean that you've got the hdmi cable in an INPUT, thats how your getting the dvd player to play movies on the screen. Which means there would be nothing coming out of the tv into the receiver.

Is that confusing?

So i think you need to find a HDMI output on your tv. Get another HDMI cable and plug it into the receiver/dvdplayer.

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I know this sounds strange, but you may want to try using an optical cable from the tv and into your receiver. On ur pana you should have an optical output.

The reason why its strange is cos although your HDMI is both sound and video, its only sound and video for watching DVD's. If your watching HDTV, then you just need the optical out from TV and into your receiver.

Again, this is just a suggestion, don't know if it'll work.

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sorry to slightly go off subject here guys.But I was considering installing a surround sound set up for my DVd player.And the part that frustrated me was that these packages always came with a DVD player.Now my dvd player is great and no need to replace it.So this was no good to me, And buying all the amp and speakers - cost the earth.....So how did I get out of it on the cheap ? I installed the Logitech surround sound for PC's to my dvd player...Its got subwoofer and 4 speakers plus a a centre speaker...Sounds incredible ! people are very surpriseed when they listen and i tell them the whole lot is under $100 ....highly recommended if you really havent got the coin to spend

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OK so the HDMI cable is an output from the DVD and goes into HDMI input 1 in the back of the plasma.

So yeah you were right its an input in the back of the TV.

As there is no more HDMI style plugs on the back of the DVD player do you think then I should do what Atomnaya said and run the optical cable fom the dvd player to the tv.

OK so as Atmonaya said the HDMI cable is only sound and video for the DVD player BUT if i put in an optical cable i can then listen to 5.1 HD on the TV? if so electronic store here i come :-)

Owgasm Grand Master

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Ok, thought so.

Well, i believe coaxial cable is better than optical but, optical is next for me. I didn't know if you had a hdmi output or not and thought you would have, so didn't suggest other solutions.

I'm pretty sure if you've got a Optical slot on the tv, it will be output, cause it would be stupid to be input.

So buy a optical cable and plug it in there and then into the receiver. You may need to change your sound source, i'm not sure how hitec your receiver is, you may need to change the digital input to optical.

The hdmi is video and sound as i said aswell :P, but can also be set to send only sound/video, same as a PS3. You can make it send video and let optical cable run your sound.

Well, to conclude it all up.

Get the optical cable, run it into the receiver and it should work.

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i through i would add.

i was running my PS3 into my receiver then into my tv, using a HDMI cable but i was only getting sound from the tv but not the receiver, i found out that i need to run an optical or coaxial cable from the ps3 into the receiver (the ps3 only has optical output so i had to get an optical cable)

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Michael the reason you weren't getting audio from your HDMI running into your surround sound is because it looks like you have the same system as I do. I didn't learn this till a few weeks ago but the HDMI switches on our recievers are just that "switches" they pass the signal from one place to another so the reciever isn't decoding the audio via HDMI because it is just passing the signal to the TV. The PS3 does output audio through HDMI but due to our recievers only having a HDMI switch and no not a HDMI reciever we don't get the audio signal hence having the run the Optical cable from the PS3.

If that didn't make sense let me know and I will explain it abit more clearer for you.

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