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How do I connect my TV, surround sound, cable box and DVD?

Why am I not getting TV audio through my surround sound speakers?

  • My brother-in-law gave me his old Panasonic DVD home theater receiver (product # SA-HT67) to use in my bonus room recently. It's a 5.1 surround sound system with a built-in DVD changer. This system is probably 10 years old at least, but it seems to be fully functioning. However, I'm having problems playing the TV audio through the system. I have a Vizio HD TV I'm using along with a Comcast HD cable box. They hooked up the cable to the TV via component cords (the 5-cable connection). The Panasonic receiver only has the basic red & white stereo RCA audio connections. I was able to connect the system to the TV and play DVDs perfectly fine, but I still can't get the TV audio to work for cable. There is a TV Line In on the back of the receiver I have used. I also tried to unplug the two audio component cords going into the TV and replace them with the audio connection going to the receiver. That didn't work. I then connected the Line In on the receiver to the separate Audio Out connection on the TV, and that didn't work either. Any suggestions? I thought I just kept the video connection between the cable box and TV, and set up a separate audio connection between the TV and receiver. But maybe I'm missing something. Is there a conversion I need to make somewhere? I've just been connecting red & white RCA cables. I appreciate any help. Thanks!

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    Connect the RCA cables from the cable box to your surround sound receiver. You also have to make sure the surround sound receiver is on the correct input (Aux1, Aux2, Digital, etc...). You may also be able to use a optical Toslink cable which is an audio only cable from your cable box to the SS receiver for true surround sound. Essentially, the video needs to go directly to the TV and the audio needs to go directly to the sound system.

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The way you have it setup, you would need to go into the TVs audio menu and set the audio output to "fixed". A better way to do it is to connect the red + white audio to the audio outputs on the cable box then to the input on the Panasonic. It's possible you would then have to set your cable box audio to fixed output but most are already set this way.

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Does the home theater have any INPUTs on it? (Not outputs! they should be clearly labeled as INPUT) If not, you can't connect anything to the home theater. This is why I hate those "home theater in a box" kits (yeah, I know you got it for free...) If the home theater has a set of red/white RCA inputs (again, it must say INPUT) then you can do this: Get a second AV cable kit. You only need the red and white cables - ignore the yellow one. Plug the red/white cables into the audio ports on a separate output on the back of the cable box, and connect the other end to your home theater. Set the home theater to use the input and you should now have TV sound coming from both the TV and home theater. You can turn down the TV speakers of course. I like this sort of setup because sometimes I just don't care about using the home theater speakers all the time. Otherwise you can just disconnect the red/white audio cables going from the cable box to to the TV. At any rate, you'll only be getting sound from the front two speakers. This is because the red/white cables only carry stereo sound. However since almost all TV shows are only in stereo anyways, you aren't really missing anything.

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