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Hooking up surround sound?

Hooking up Surround sound?

  • Alright a little frustrated. Just bought 5.1 channel sony surround sound speakers cuz I already have a sony receiver. I have insight cable box and a ps3. the sony receiver doesn't have dvd or anything built in. How do I hook up my cable box and ps3 to this system? I have HDMI going from ps3 to the hdmi "dvd in" on the receiver, then another hdmi going from the "out" on the receiver to the HDTV input. I'm currently not getting any video feed for the ps3 so i know there's something wrong even after resetting it. Also, the cable box is hooked up via hdmi to the tv and RCA (red & white) to the receiver. I'm getting clear sound out of the 2 front speakers and a weird echo(y) sound of the surround left speaker. nothing out of the surround right speaker (probably bad connection). Let me know what you think! I need help. Thanks

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    I would do this. Run the hdmi from your ps3 and your cable box directly to your HDTV. Take digital optical outputs of the ps3 and cable box and run them to your sony receiver. If your cable box does not have digital audio outputs then run the red and white rca from the cable box to your receiver. If you use the rca connectors make sure you set your system for stereo sound and not surround sound since rca connection cannot carry dolby digital surround sound. Now this is just one possible way that you can hook things up but without more information about your receiver, cable box and HDTV I can't be more specific. However, the setup I just gave you will work no matter what capabilities your system has.

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Whatever you do, I wouldn't suggest routing everything to your TV and then running the audio from your TV to your receiver as the second respondent said. Unless of course you don't want good sound. This is the crap way of doing it. With the type of receiver you have, you have to go into the menu screen and assign each of your inputs. If you will notice, on the back side of the receiver, there is probably multiple inputs labeled "DVD". This is so that you have multiple options as to how to connect your DVD player. So go into the menu screen and do a little searching. You should find a place that will allow you to assign you DVD function to read either the HDMI or Component inputs. It may even let you select a composite video input. Once you do this, you should be home free and you should be getting your audio and video. Good luck.

Robert

Keep in mind that the red and white rca jack you connected is only a stereo and not surround sound. If you have the cable box connected to the tv with HDMI cable, then connect an optical audio cable from the tv to the receiver. This will provide a digital signal to the receiver. Keep in mind that only those tv program with the Dolby digital logo will have surround sound. Did you set your PS3 to output the video and audio via HDMI cable, usually this is the problem. You can also connect the PS3 directly to the tv. Hope this will help you out.

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if you are using a HTIB all in one system it most likely won't work, since you usually can't hook up anything extra to those receivers. if you are not using a HTIB then most likely your ps3 isn't set to use HDMI. go into your settings and make sure it is set properly. The other part of your question regarding RC cables, it sounds echo(y) because RC cables can't carry surround sound only 2 channel stereo. For surround sound you need a Toslink (Fiber optic) cable from your tv to your receiver.

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