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Can you have cable stations without having cable?

When you hook up a surround sound system can you get your regular cable TV stations to come through the system?

  • I recently bought a surround sound system. I hooked it up, it works fine for DVD's but I was wondering if you can get surround sound for the regular cable TV stations?

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    It depends on you cable service provider, broadcasting stations, and the programming. Most prime-time shows have a Dolby Digital 5.1 track like the ones on DVDs. Oprah on the other only has stereo. If your cable service provider blocks it to save on bandwidth or does not even provide you with a cable box with HDMI, optical, or coaxial port. You will not get that Dolby Digital track. There could also be the case that the network station does not have this capability, but I believe most upgraded their equipment in the conversion from analog to digital mandated by the FCC a couple of years ago..

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If you have a digital cable box, it should have an optical or coaxial digital output if not both. Hook one up to whichever type is available on your receiver. Not all programs are available in surround but it should work on every channel.

Steve

Take an a/v cable from the tvs audio output back to the s/s audio input and put the s/s on TV/Video and every device hooked to the tv will have s/s. You can even use a digital cable if the tv and s/s have that option.

Robert W

Connect optical cable or red & white cables from cable box to sound system for audio.

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