I purchased a Sony-900W XM-Ready 5.1-Ch. Home Theater System w/ Progressive-Scan DVD/CD/MP3 Player-HT-7000DH. I plan to hook it to the tv with an hdmi cable. and hook my cable box up to the tv also with a hdmi cable. my tv has 2xhdmi ports..does this sound right? any suggestions
2007-03-08 07:29:39 · 4 answers · asked by fishdaddy2011 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
Your Home Theater Amplifier (that box you connect the speakers to) has 3 HDMI ports (two for input, one for output). You can put the cable box (and the DVD player if it has HDMI capability) through the amplifier, which then connects to the TV. Also, both video and sound go through that cable, so you can get both uncompressed sound and video.
If your DVD player doesn't have HDMI, use a component video cable, (It's red, blue, and green) and an optical cable (has an infrared light shining through it when connected to a device that is on) for sound.
One problem with this set-up is that some devices, may not support sound output or input through HDMI. If that's the case, then use an optical cable for the sound, and use the HDMI just for video.
Sound shouldn't be going through the TV at all. There is no need since sound goes through the amplifier.
2007-03-08 11:30:16 · answer #1 · answered by neal8123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main issue you will have is getting surround sound from your cable box. To do this, you will have to get the digital audio from the cable box to the Sony system. Hopefully the cable box has an optical or coax digital audio output and the Sony has a digital audio input. That is what you should use in addition to the HDMI connection to the TV. If your TV has a digital audio output, you may be able to connect that to the Sony as well; however, most TVs do not pass through digital audio from "external inputs" (such as the HDMI input), but you might check on that. If it does "pass through", you don't need the digital audio connection from the cable box.
2007-03-08 10:56:47 · answer #2 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes HDMI is what you want to use and that sounds right but if you want surround sound from your Cable box and your receiver has multiple HDMI inputs plug your cable box into the receiver then the receiver into the TV, HDMI(high definition multimedia interface) is both picture and sound so that is all you will need
2007-03-08 10:17:35 · answer #3 · answered by David G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like the way to go
dont forget to hookup your receiver to the hometheatre box so you can get sound - hdmi is only video
2007-03-08 08:22:20 · answer #4 · answered by mrdg90 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋