Component Video Cables vs. Fiber Optic?

I am looking to purchase a Sony HTS-S360 Home Theater system sometime in the near future and I am looking to hook my 46" Sony Bravia XBR9 up to it.  I am wondering which would be better for such a setup, Component Cables or a Fiber Optic Cable.  I want whichever gives me the quality of sound closer to the HDMI cable but I also don't want to pay the extra money for an HDMI cable.  Any suggestions for which would be the better way to hook the Sony receiver up to my Sony TV?

Well for starters one is a video cable and the other is audio. Component cables carry video on three different cables, red, green and blue. Optical cables carry digital sound. So if you went with component cables to hook something up like a cable box or dvd player you would also have to use the optical cable for sound. So is not one or the other, its both since one does video and the other does the audio.
HDMI carries both digital video and audio.
What are you looking to hook up with this new system? It doesn't come with a blu ray or dvd player built in. So you will have to get one seperately if you don't have one. And do you have a cable box or satalite dish? This system has HDMI inputs so if you want the best quality I suggest using them. If your just looking to get sound from the tv to the receiver you would run an optical cable from the tv audio out to the optical in on the receiver.
Let us know what components you have or play on buying and maybe we can help you with the best way to hook it up. If you get a blue ray player using component cables will not be the best way to hook it up. To gain the full advantage of blu ray you will need the HDMI cable.

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