home theater system?

Question

I have a dvd home theater system and i can only watch movies but i want it to also watch regular tv with big sound but i cant get that to happen What if your home theater already came with dvd and thats were the speakers are hooked up should i hook up that dvd system to my cable box

Answer 1

You need a tuner/amplifier in your system. If you don't have one then there is your problem. All of your antennas, dvd players, vcrs, turn tables, tape players and cable should be hooked to the tuner with RCA cables. You may need some RCA splitters to do this depending on your tuner. You hook up all the RCA inputs into your left and right inputs on th back of the tuner. If you DVD Player is controlling you speakers then you are out of luck unless by some stroke of luck it is a DVD recorder. In short, get a tuner, some RCA splitters and some RCA cables.

For those who want you to hook it in series Cable Box to DVD player to television via the auxillary input, (assuming your player has one), the problem is that you have to turn on the DVD player to Auxillary every time you want the big sound. With the tuner cable solution you can avoid the slave issue.

Answer 2

Hey there. Just take the Red & White cables that run from your cable box to your tv. Unplug them from the tv and leave them where they are on the cable box. Now plug them into the AUX red & white plugs on the back of the DVD player. Now just use the dvd remote to switch to AUX (ilary) whenever you want to watch tv. You may or may not have to turn the tv sound down. Good Luck :-)

Answer 3

thats one way or you can hook it up to the vcr, or there should be a digital outbout