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Wiring up TV and units

  • 24-05-2009 01:47PM
    #1
    Nickmoosehead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi all
    I hope you can help, but I suspect that this question is a common one.

    I have a Samsung HD TV with plenty of HDMI sockets and an optical port, Samsung Blue ray player with HDMI and optical port, Samsung Home cinema with HDMI and Optical port, Sky HD box.

    I currently have everything connected with HDMI cables, and an optical cable connecting my blue ray to the home cinema.

    Please could you advise me if this is the best wiring set up for the units ? I am getting mixed advice on this one. I am being told that I should have the optical connecting the Sky box to the Home cinema box. If this is the case, will by blue ray produce the best sound output via the HDMI cable ? The home cinema only has 1 optical port, so I am unable to connect both the Sky and Blue ray at the same time.

    Thanks very much in advance for your help.

    Nick


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  • #2
    Slaphead07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Slaphead07


    Nickmoosehead wrote: »
    The home cinema only has 1 optical port, so I am unable to connect both the Sky and Blue ray at the same time.

    Thanks very much in advance for your help.

    Nick

    If I'm reading you right you have the blu-ray connected by HDMI therefore you don't need to connect it by the optical (audio) as well.


  • #3
    Nickmoosehead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Nickmoosehead


    Hi There. Yes all units are connected to the TV by HDMI. I was advised to connect the Blue ray to the home cinema with an optical cable also so that I would get 5.1 dolby and improved sound. I guess my question is do I need the optical at all if everything is connected with HDMI ? or does the optical still give me advantages over the cable ? Many thanks Nick


  • #4
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,350 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Unplug the optical and see/hear if you notice a difference ;)

    Looking at the HDMI specs on wikipedia, it mentions support for multiple audio formats, but some of them are dependent on more recent implementations of the specs, so you might want to check which flavours of HDMI your equipment have.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi


  • #5
    Nickmoosehead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Nickmoosehead


    Hi and thanks for your reply. I was told that the optical would send proper dolby signals to the cinema system, and the Sky HD box would not be able to send the same via the HDMI cable. I will try and unplug to see how it sounds. Nick


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