Help with Component Set up: Can I hook up a switch box to connect a Wii, Cable Box, and Xbox 360 to get surround sound?
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You need to hook an optical cable from the receiver to the TV. Then your Wii, Cable box, or any audio that runs through the TV will also run through the receiver. The HDMI is input only, not output for audio. Good Luck.
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I have connected to my surround sound receiver, then have connected my directv, ps3, and wii to 3 of the 8 ports. With a push of a button, I can switch any of them to the surround sound. I would imagine anything else I connected to it would work as well. So I dont see why a cd player or tape deck wouldnt work the same.
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I have 3 components connected to my receiver - An Amazon TV, a Blu-Ray disk player and the Directv receiver - all using HDMI cables. You do need to have the receiver on, but how else would you get that beautiful sound! If your DirecTV receiver doesn't have an HDMI output, you can connect the DirecTV box to the composite video inputs on the front of the receiver and select the V-Aux input on the remote control. You may be able to connect it to one of the composite video inputs on the back, but I didn't try that. I hope that helps. TopCatOnyx
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All the switch will do is split your left and right stereo channels. You usually would hook it up to main speaker out puts B or zone 2 of a stereo as it needs to have a "stereo signal" not a surround sound signal.
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This has two outs and four ins. So no, you'd been one output short. Just do the math, my dear. Seriously, though, most home theater wiring can be puzzled out with just a little studying the situation...and some diagrams. Think about whether you need all the outputs to be optical, for example. Unless you have need of 3 separate surround sound outputs, you'll probably be better using some red and white composite (AKA: RCA) cables where only stereo is needed.
797295
To the best of my knowledge, this receiver will not convert analog signals to HDMI, so you will have to change the TV input over when you switch from DVD to Wii.
157145
I looked up your television model you only have one slot for component cables just plug in the matching colors red to red white to white green to green blue to blue etc. Cables work great. Make sure to change wii settings to 480p under settings
336292
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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You need a receiver/home theater to hook speakers to for true surround sound. DVD is optional and would run thru your receiver/home theater system.
1600678
This converter box only allows RCA jacks on the input to go to HDMI output.You probably want some sort of VGA to HDMI converter.Search Amazon for this one QVS HVGA-AS VGA Video/Stereo Audio to HDMI Digital ConverterIt does sound and video.Just video converters are less expensive.Good luck!
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Yeah, I ended up buying component cables for my consoles. The only problem is the game cube is now B&W; since I plugged it's video cable in the first component input. Not an issue, I can use the Wii to play them if needed...Thanks for the reply!
737951
Make sure your component cable is switched to "HDTV". The switch will be located near the xbox output.
906992
the easiest way, i think, would be to connect everything to your TV and run a single audio out to your surround sound system. I personnally use an optical out from my tv to my home theater set up as my TV has far more connections than my receiver.
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I have mine hooked up with Component cables. I just got my sister an off-brand set at Gamestop for 15 bucks. I think the Nintendo ones cost 30, whichever one you pick will be worth it as it cleans up the picture very nice! Cheers
1966240
No doesn't directly hook up to hd game systems.. Try the regular rca surround sound
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I'm using it to output from Plasma TV with only a fiber optic output (so I had to use a Toslink converter) and from my wii console so I can get TV sound and game sound to my sound bar which only has the RCA input (no fiber optic or HDMI inputs) I don't lose any sound quality at all. I can't guarantee you won't because I'm using it for a totally different use. This is a toggle..so only one circuit works at a time.
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You could get a SCART audio extractor that lets you input audio, or you could modify the cable to support audio. What console are you using?