All sources plugged into active soundbar which thru its HDMI out passes video to HDTV. Will I need 1 or more of your units?
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If I understand your set up correctly, all of your equipment goes into a sound bar and then it all goes out through one output to one input on your television. The detective plus goes between the device and the sound bar. The purpose of the device is to trick the TV into thinking it is continuously receiving an HDMI signal from any HDMI equipment attached to your Sound Bar. We only required one because only one of our pieces of equipment had an issue - a computer we use for recording and watching TV. If we swapped from the computer to another piece of equipment and then back, sometimes the HDMI signal would have an issue and the TV could not receive the computer signal. We would get a blue or blank screen. All of our other equipment functions fine without the device. I know this does not answer your question completely, but you will know how many you need when you try each device through your sound bar. Any that are not detected or cause an issue will probably need the device.
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I don't think that should be a problem, but it might be kinda tight. FYI, there are newer HDMI cables out there that are significantly thinner than standard cables that would make things easier. Also, you mention speaker wires which leads me to believe that you are using a receiver with your set-up. If so, and if it does HDMI switching, you can eliminate all but one HDMI cable going to you TV.
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Sorry that won't work. Take a look at this box instead: Cable Matters 3-in-1 AV Converter with HDMI Output
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This won't work. There is only one hdmi on the sound bar. Its actually a dumb design on Philips part. You also have the option of rca from the tv to the sound bar.
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As Rick stated it will work just fine using the HDMI in and Out ports. Connect your TiVo to the HDMI - In on soundbar and then connect your soundbar to the TV using the HDMI - Out on the soundbar and the free HDMI port on your TV. You need to realize that this will mean that you have to have the soundbar turned on in order to watch TiVo content. If the soundbar is turned off it will not allow the datastream to pass through the device. Also you will have to specify source on the soundbar as HDMI, default is ARC (I believe). It also takes about 3 or so seconds for the soundbar to fully initialize therefore you must make sure to give it enough time before deciding it's not working. As Rick stated it will work just fine using the HDMI in and Out ports. Connect your TiVo to the HDMI - In on soundbar and then connect your soundbar to the TV using the HDMI - Out on the soundbar and the free HDMI port on your TV. You need to realize that this will mean that you have to have the soundbar turned on in order to watch TiVo content. If the soundbar is turned off it will not allow the datastream to pass through the device. Also you will have to specify source on the soundbar as HDMI, default is ARC (I believe). It also takes about 3 or so seconds for the soundbar to fully... » Read More As Rick stated it will work just fine using the HDMI in and Out ports. Connect your TiVo to the HDMI - In on soundbar and then connect your soundbar to the TV using the HDMI - Out on the soundbar and the free HDMI port on your TV. You need to realize that this will mean that you have to have the soundbar turned on in order to watch TiVo content. If the soundbar is turned off it will not allow the datastream to pass through the device. Also you will have to specify source on the soundbar as HDMI, default is ARC (I believe). It also takes about 3 or so seconds for the soundbar to fully initialize therefore you must make sure to give it enough time before deciding it's not working. « Show Less
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Yes, plug 3 devices by vga cable plus red&white audio. then 1 out to TV Best, Joe
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That's probably not going to work since there is only one output source for the speakers - and those are for the speaker wires. the coax, component video, and optical cable are all inputs, only one hdmi output to connnect to your tv, the rest of the hdmi are all input from your other devices as well. do some search you may find a coax output for speakers, but it may be difficult because a lot of newer receivers are either hdmi, optical, component video and even bluetooth.
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If you TV has a HDMI connection it should work or use the audio out from the TV to the line 1 or 2 connections on the sound bar.
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Hopefully your TV is 3 or 4 HDMI inputs to handle connections for your DVR and game systems. Output the audio from your TV to the HTIB and you're all set.
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Jim, i have this unit and hdmi is finicky so i couldn't get it to work. So no big loss. Instead, use fiber optic audio output of tv to feed optical input of soundbar and all will be good. Regards, Greg
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I guess you could do it that way. If you're TV has ARC support like mine does then I hooked up my components directly to the TV and then ran 1 hdmi cable from the ARC connection on the TV to the connection on the soundbar.
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The sound bar will need a cable INPUT from TV AUDIO OUTPUT and should have come with one of these, optical cable, RCA or 1.5 plug.
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It's designed to use just one....you can plug your cable box & blu ray into the soundbar then out into your tv and flip between the two sources with the remote. However, I sent mine back because it went dead -- no audio. When I got it back the audio problem was fixed but I still couldn't go between 2 sources so I just plugged my blu ray right into the TV. I highly recommend NOT buying this soundbar!
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It would work if you want to connect 2 devices like a DVD player and a Apple TV having only one HDMI available on your soundbar.
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the unit is powered by your HDMI devices and should work without a DC input.
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Only 2 hdmi ports, so make sure you don't need more. I've got my Direct tv signal one hdmi. The other is connected to a sound bar out, which has 2 hdmi in ports. I have the Apple TV and the blue ray player hooked up thru the sound bar, to the TV. This is a small disadvantage, but a fantastic picture and a great price on this TV.
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Mine is working fine with 3 hdmi devices attached. Did need to use a optical cable from the 4K tv to the amp when using over the air digital is signaled into the tv --- then to the amp. (i don't use cable or sat. tv) Terrific sound -- great 4k video.