Connecting to home theater receiver

how do I connect Apple TV to my Home theater receiver which is alrady connected to my hd tv?

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You can either connect your tv to your receiver using either HDMI or component (existing tv only) and then connect your receiver to the TV by the connection of your choice depending on what is available on both your TV and your receiver.
Alternatively, you can continue to connect your tv to your TV in your current configuration and use the optical audio connection to connect your tv to your receiver for audio only.

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What is the best way to connect to home theater receiver ?

what is the best way to connect iPhone to home theater receiver?

For audio, video, or both?
Audio:
I use AirPlay.
If your receiver doesn't support AirPlay, you might try USB or Bluetooth.
If it's an older model that doesn't support any of the above, the mini-stereo-to-RCA cable may be your best option.
Video:
Try the Apple A/V cable.
Kevin

Connecting to home theater receiver without hdmi

I have a sony hdtv and a yamaha receiver which work great but don't have hdmi ports. I connected apple tv through hdmi to component video converter and then to dvd inputs on yamaha receiver. When i turn everything on and select dvd on yamaha receiver i see the apple symbol on sony hdtv for a few seconds but then nothing but a black screen. Can I use this converter? Is there a way to make this work? Thanks

There are hardware converters that will convert HDMI to various other types of output, however there are some issues with doing so that you should be aware of.
HDCP
HDCP compliant converters will not allow you to watch HDCP protected content such as that from the iTunes Store. Non compliant converters exist but we cannot discuss them under the Terms of Use for these communities.
Resolution and aspect ratio
I'm not aware of any converters that will scale the output from the Apple TV, any TV or projector which is used will need to be widescreen and support resolutions of 720p (Apple TV 2).

Connecting HDTV/Dig Cable/Wii/Home Theater Receiver

I have a Samsung 600series HDTV, Yamaha Home Theater Receiver, AT&T Uverse Digital cable box and Nintendo Wii. What is the best way using HDMI and an optical audio cable(s) to route everything through my Receiver? I want to minimize the amount of cables running behind the wall up to my TV.
Right now I have:
- HDMI from Digital cable box up to HDTV
- HDMI from Receiver to HDTV
- Optical audio from HDTV to Receiver
- Wii not currently set up b/c I when connected to the Receiver I couldn't find the proper setting to get this to work
In the current set up, I get full audio out of all 5.1 surround sound speakers with the radio, but when the TV/Cable is on I only get sound from the front L & R. I'm sure it has something to with with my set up because I know all 5 speakers work...
thanks for your help,
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We use the second set up. Works just fine for us. Routes everything neatly to the receiver with one easy to conceal hdmi cable to the t.v.
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Cannot send sound to home theater receiver

I have a HP Pavilion g6-1c57dx Notebook PC with Windows 7
The display adapter is 'Intel (R) HD Graphics family.
When I connect my Onkyo home theater receiver (TX-NR3008) to the computer via the HDMI port, I am able to send video to the receiver but not sound.
Can anyone help?

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You can either connect your tv to your receiver using either HDMI or component (existing tv only) and then connect your receiver to the TV by the connection of your choice depending on what is available on both your TV and your receiver.
Alternatively, you can continue to connect your tv to your TV in your current configuration and use the optical audio connection to connect your tv to your receiver for audio only.

5.1 to home theater receiver thru Optical Out not working; Fatality Platinum

I tried connecting the Optical Out on the front to my receiver's optical in. Made sure everything was set to 5. in both the Creative and receiver settings, and the receiver gets optical 5. just fine with my Play Station version 3 and X-box version 360 gaming computers. Please help, I have tried reboot, messing with settings, Google, I cannot fix this.
Jinwoo from great korea!

Hi I have the same probleme, exept that I have succesfuly pluged my home theater receiver and the 5.1 works. Just my subwoofer seems not to work properly. Like when I plug it into a digital dvd player it works very nicely. but when pluged into the sound card it seems that it dosnt have any signal for it.
ANy clues??? I know i pluged everything finely I have tested the sound test for each speaker and sub to, from the receiver and from the creative software the sub seems to work but very quietly even if I cran the volume up on the sub or in the software , the sub dont work as it should.
1 thing I remarqued is that the sub works occasionaly in some movies. When listening to the music it not working and I dont understand that.

Hooking up MBP to home theater receiver: Surround sound for games?

I'm looking for a way to hook up my MBP to my home theater receiver to play games in surround sound. From what I've read, it sounds like the digital optical out will only provide 5.1 sound for DVDs, not games.
I have also read about the Griffin Firewave which supposedly provides 5.1 sound from the firewire port...however, it looks like there are five separate outputs from that device (center, and both front and rear speakers), and my receiver's inputs are not arranged in this way, so I don't think this will work for my setup.
Anyone know of a way to do this successfully? It's looking like it's not possible, but wanted to see if there were any solutions I was missing. Thanks!

Peep this...http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/bb/board/message?board.id=TV_Home_Theater&thread.id=1153
Disclosure: Former BBY employee.

Home Theater receiver users should read this for enabling dolby digi

I have an onkyo 5. dts / dolby digital receiver, and an audigy 2 zs platinum. i am using an optical cable from the front panel on the audigy to the optical in on my receiver. My receiver manual says it is a 96 khz receiver. I am using a 2 pin cable from my dvd player to the audigy. When using a dvd, I can not get dolby digital sound to my receiver. I have set the audigy to spdif pass through, i have tried 48khz, 96khz, every combination of everything. Setting to 2. speakers, 5. speakers, but yet i am stuck with either stereo sound if set to 96khz, or dolby prologic II if set to 48khz.
Another thing i tried was using a dvd image i created on my hard dri've from a dvd, and playing it through alcohol 20%, to see if it was my dvd player giving the problems. I still get the exact same results when playing a dolby digital source through the hard dri've.
So, in the end, is it actually possible to have dolby digital from the audigy 2 zs platinum through a home theater receiver, or not?
thanksMessage Edited by jonnybruno on 0-20-2005 2:7 AM

I am feeling the same way about this card. It would be nice if somebody from creative could respond with a definite correct way to get dolby digital to my home theater receiver. Im sick of being plagued with problems.. no dolby digital, random stopping of sound which requires me to reinstall drivers, popping noises every so often, etc etc etc..
seriuosly... an m-audio revolution is starting to sound pretty appealing.
edit: I would also like to note that my box does say front panel optical out for 5. support, unlike the previous poster had said it says stereo only. I am able to get dolby digital if i switch to my onboard nforce soundstorm or whatever it is.
PS. I am not going to let this thread drop down until I have a definiti've answer on whether it is possible to have dolby digital through my audigy 2 zs platinum and home theater receiver. I paid $200 for this card, and I really would appreciate a straight forward definite answer.Message Edited by jonnybruno on 0-9-2005 09:4 AM

ITunes Streaming: connection to home theater using Airport Extreme & Expres

I'm hoping this problem is an easy system config fix...
I am trying to stream my iTunes library from my desktop in the office to my laptop in the living room. Easy 'nuff so far. I adjusted all the nec. settings on each & my desktop iTunes lib. shows up on my laptop iTunes. Plays fine through the laptop speakers.
Now the tricky part that I can't figure out:
The desktop has an Airport Extreme base station & I'm using an Airport Express as a signal booster in the living room.
The AP Express has a 1/4 jack to RCA left/right plugged in to it that is going to my home theater receiver.
How, or can, I get the Airport Express to send the signal out of it so I can listen to my library through the home speakers? All wirelessly of course. ; )
The goal is to listen & control my desktop iTunes lib through my laptop & have it play through my home theater.
dual 2Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Figured it out... hadn't turned on AirTunes on the desktop iTunes/Prefs.
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Connecting to a Home Theater receiver

I am thinking about buying a mini to use with my home theater system. I want to use iTunes to play through my audio receiver. I have a G5 and hooked it up through the media receiver for my 42" plasma. I got video and audio but it only plays audio through my TV speakers. Can I hook up the mini to my audio receiver so it will play through home theater speakers?

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Connection of Home Theater Recei

For my Home Theater I would like to use my PC a DVD player, music player, and for gaming on my Infocus Projector. I am trying to figure out what Sound Card will be sufficient and how it will actually connect to my Recei'ver (Yamaha HTR-5830SL 550W 5.-Ch. Digital Home Theater Recei'ver) (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=703449&type=product&productCateg oryId=cat0303&id=099395588707)
Here are my specifications:
Want to connect my sound card to the above receiver but still have desktop speakers and a mic out so when I am playing BF2 I can talk to other players. HOw would I hook this up? SPDIF, Y connectors, ? I s this even possible?

I game more than watch movies or listen to music on my pc & yes ..it was interesting to read in the sticky... thanks for the reminder. I don't have 5. or higher spkr setup, i use a?centre + frnt right + frnt left on hi-fi system and creative 2. THX speaker system?& then i just tweak the sound from both sources, on my amp it has cinema studio EX & i find using that i get a good mixture of mid & high sounds, plus the mission 703's give good punchy?bass,?the thunder/bass comes from the creative 2. sub as well as some high?crisp sounds from the 2. THX front right & left ...so what's that? ..pseudo surround ..lol. What i find odd is why do pc?game publishers put Dolby Digital on the pc games?box when realy then it should be EAX support ..as notied in the sticky below. But tbh the very best sound for me personaly has to be headphones ..but you need a good set of cans though. PC GamesPC games usually use technologies?like as EAX to create surround sound, not Dolby Digital. So even if your speaker system has a Dolby Digital decoder, it will be of no use when playing?games.
The EAX processing is done on the soundcard, and?the 6-channel sound is?output via the analogue (or digital DIN if available). So you still need analogue connections to your digital speakers for games, if you just use an optical/coax cable you will only get the front left/right sound. (N.B. X-Box games do support Dolby Digital, so if you connect your X-Box to your Dolby Digital receiver/speakers with the optical cable, you can get full surround sound.)?

G4 TV connection for home theater help

Just inherited a G4 tower that I'm considering using to play vids on my old school TV (RCA and coax in only). I've been using my Macbook Pro to do this lately. Imagine my surprise when I found that my current DVI/video adapter does not fit the DVI on the G4 (and thus I learned about the development of the dual link DVI connection...)
So... can I make this thing work? I've poked around and all I can find are DVI to 3-component RCA adapters. Is there a way to make that work? Or is there (hopefully) a DVI/RCA video adapters stashed in the back of a shop somewhere...
Or should I toss this thing to the curb and buy a mini?

Adding a PCI video card would work.
Most Mac Radeon PCI cards have S-Video out.
Use one of these to convert the S-video to RCA.
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Apple tv home theater connect?

how to connect apple tv to home theater receiver that conncts to monitor with component cables?

Theoretically you can't do that - as AppleTV and most HDMI equipped devices enforce HDCP to prevent conversion of protected digital video to analogue video you will struggle to find an easy solution.
You may find converters out there that'll convert HDMI to analogue video but they will be of dubious legality as manufacturers of devices using HDMI are supposed to block such conversions or downgrade the analogue out signal.
AC

Help on purchasing a Home Theater System...

Hi everyone,
I just bought a new HDTV and I am now looking into getting a good Home Theater System, since as I'm sure you all know, the speakers on my TV are pretty pathetic.
But in all honestly, I really don't know much at all about speakers and home theater systems, so that's why I'm here.
I hear that most home theater systems come with DVD and Bluray players, but I don't need either of those, since my ps3 and 360 give me 2 DVD players and a Bluray player already.
I am really looking to spend less than 400 bucks, or around that area if possible.
I also have one question: My HDTV only has 2 HDMI ports and one Component port and since I am using both of those (HDMI is being used for the cable and ps3 and component is used for my 360) I am wondering if there is some other way of connecting the Home Theater System?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
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paulmohr wrote:
Ok after looking at the manual for that reciever this is what I come up with.
One HDMI cable running from your PS3 to the reciever (BD in would be my choice)
One HDMI cable running from your Cable box to the receiver (dvd in would by my choice)
Now for you Xbox 360 you said you have the component cables for it, from what I can tell you can also get an HDMI connector as well. What you choose is up to you but this is how it would work.
Xbox with component cables:
Since the receiver doesn't have component swtiching you would have to hook the xbox up to your tv with the component cables ( the way it is now).
Then run an optical audio cable from the xbox to the receiver SAT optical in.
If you get the HDMI cable most likely you would just run the HDMI cable from the Xbox to the receiver like the other components. If you went this route I would hook the xbox to the dvd hdmi in and the cable box to the SAT hdmi in though. Honestly it doesn't matter but it just might be less confusing that way.
Then you would need on optical cable running from the TV out to the TV in on the reciever. If you never watch regular tv you don't need this since the sound will come from your cable box anyway. But if you also have the tv hooked up to an antenna or something this will send the sound to the receiver.
And one HDMI cable running from the Receiver out to on the HDMI inputs on the tv. This is what will carry all of the signals going into your receiver to your tv.
And then the speakers connections which should be described in the instructions for the receiver. Just make sure the polarity is right when you connect them.
This configuration will let you control most or all of the components through the receiver since it switches most of them. Just choose the correct input and the tv will display it.
Okay, so according to that, I would need 4 HDMI cables to my HDTV, which would be impossible.... Unfortunately, my new HDTV only has 2 HDMI porsts, so is there a way to get around that issue? If I use HDMI for the ps3 and HD cable box, then is there a way to hook everything else up (including the reciever) without HDMI?
Thanks in advance.

Xi-Fi Gamer & Home Theater Recei

Howdy -
I just purchased a Sony home theater receiver and surround sound system (HT-DDW900) and I'm wondering how to connect my Sound Blaster Xi-Fi Gamer to the receiver.
Appreciate any help. Thank you.

I game more than watch movies or listen to music on my pc & yes ..it was interesting to read in the sticky... thanks for the reminder. I don't have 5. or higher spkr setup, i use a?centre + frnt right + frnt left on hi-fi system and creative 2. THX speaker system?& then i just tweak the sound from both sources, on my amp it has cinema studio EX & i find using that i get a good mixture of mid & high sounds, plus the mission 703's give good punchy?bass,?the thunder/bass comes from the creative 2. sub as well as some high?crisp sounds from the 2. THX front right & left ...so what's that? ..pseudo surround ..lol. What i find odd is why do pc?game publishers put Dolby Digital on the pc games?box when realy then it should be EAX support ..as notied in the sticky below. But tbh the very best sound for me personaly has to be headphones ..but you need a good set of cans though. PC GamesPC games usually use technologies?like as EAX to create surround sound, not Dolby Digital. So even if your speaker system has a Dolby Digital decoder, it will be of no use when playing?games.
The EAX processing is done on the soundcard, and?the 6-channel sound is?output via the analogue (or digital DIN if available). So you still need analogue connections to your digital speakers for games, if you just use an optical/coax cable you will only get the front left/right sound. (N.B. X-Box games do support Dolby Digital, so if you connect your X-Box to your Dolby Digital receiver/speakers with the optical cable, you can get full surround sound.)?

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