Connecting Equipment
Mon, Jan 17 2011, 8:55PM
Hi Im looking to buy 3D Plasma Panasonic 50 inch Tv, Humax Freesat Recorder, Sony Blue Ray Player BDP-S770 and a Yamaha ysp-2200 Sound Bar Can anybody help me on how these would all be set up to get the best sound and picture from the equipment,as the Blue ray player has one HDMI port, The Sound bar has four, TV has four. Humax has one.
Thanks Richard
Run an HDMI cable from the Blu-Ray, into one of the Yamaha's HDMI inputs. This will carry both video and audio, and you'll need no further cables bar the mains cable.
Run a second HDMI cable from the Humax recorder into another of the the Yamaha's HDMI inputs. I don't know much about the Humax unit, but it should be the same as above connections-wise, (plus the satellite aerial connector of course).
Run another HDMI cable from the Yamaha's HDMI output, into your TV.
If your TV is ARC capable (Audio Return Channel), the HDMI that runs from the Yamaha to the soundbar, will also send the TV's sound to the Yamaha, allowing you to listen to broadcast TV through the Yamaha too. If it does not support ARC, you'll need an audio connection cable (proabably optical digital) from the TV into the Yamaha.
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