FOAK: 'Home Cinema'

A couple of years ago I bought a Denon receiver and Tanoy 5.1 speakers
from Richer Sounds. It has the usual shed-load of inputs including 2 co-
axial and two optical. Back then I had a 100Hz CRT TV, Sky Box VHS and
DVD. All the the boxes were linked to different inputs on the receiver,
each according to its kind, and I switched between them with the remote.

I've just taken delivery of a Toshiba 42" 100Hz LCD telly which has
(among other things) 4 HDMI inputs and an optical sound output. The Sky+
HD box is on order. Blu-ray player next month.

Question: will I lose anything by linking the new boxes by HDMI, the
(legacy) VHS by scart and taking the optical output from the telly as the
one and only input to the Receiver? It would save a lot of faffing about!
Any advantage one way or the other from taking the sub-woofer output from
the telly versus the receiver?

tia

Derek.

 

Derek Turner submitted this idea :

Our Samsung 42" is fed by HDMI from a sat receiver and we also use its
(the TV's) built in Freeview sometimes. We have the TV's internal amp
and speakers disabled and feed from the TV to a Sony Home Cinema. It
seems that whatever source is fed to the TV, if it includes audio, goes
back out to the Sony. The Sony's sub works fine, but the rear channels
seem to be always missing (stereo only), whereas they did work when I
fed direct from Sat system to the Sony - because our previous flat
screen didn't seem to support 'feed through'.

 

Not so AFAIK. BICBW.



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Why bother? Just use the TV speakers for the VHS.


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I just checked. Sky+ does do 5.1, at least on the movies.




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Wrong. They're pretty much all 5.1 these days, and the boxes have
dedicated optical and digital out to hook up to a suitable amp.

 

Not pissed off with all the fucking wires and remotes yet?