Which cable to connect my TV to my surround system?

[MitchT]

I just bought the following two items...

Sony Bravia 40" TV
Sony Surround sound system consisting of DVD/media player and speakers.

Neither package contains the cable required to connect my TV to my DVD player and I'm not sure what I need. Obviously I require a means of getting film from my DVD player to my TV screen and also sound from TV programmes on my telly to my surround speakers (via the DVD player). Does one cable to both jobs or will it take two cables, and which cable(s) do I need?

Both the TV and and the DVD player have SCART, HDMI and Digital Co-Axial connections.

[mackie1]

Sounds like you want an HDMI cable to connect the DVD player to the TV and if the DVD/Amp has a digital coax input then a coax cable going from TV to DVD/Amp. Job done.

[garycat]

HDMI for DVD to TV, and twin phono for TV to Sony amp (unless your TV has a co-ax or optical output which is unlikely). Most TVs just have stereo phono outputs (red & white) so you won't get true 5.1 surround from TV programs but your amp may be able to fake it.

Edited by garycat on Thursday 14th May 11:17

[headcase]

garycat said:

HDMI for DVD to TV, and twin phono for TV to Sony amp (unless your TV has a co-ax or optical output which is unlikely). Most TVs just have stereo phono outputs (red & white) so you won't get true 5.1 surround from TV programs but your amp may be able to fake it.

Edited by garycat on Thursday 14th May 11:17

You havent seen many new TV's then Every new TV i have seen has an optical output

You do have to be carefull though, on some TV's the optical output is NOT a monitor output, sometimes it is just a Freeview Tuner audio output.

[Plotloss]

headcase said:

garycat said:

HDMI for DVD to TV, and twin phono for TV to Sony amp (unless your TV has a co-ax or optical output which is unlikely). Most TVs just have stereo phono outputs (red & white) so you won't get true 5.1 surround from TV programs but your amp may be able to fake it.

Edited by garycat on Thursday 14th May 11:17

You havent seen many new TV's then Every new TV i have seen has an optical output

You do have to be carefull though, on some TV's the optical output is NOT a monitor output, sometimes it is just a Freeview Tuner audio output.

And more often than not its two channel only.

[headcase]

As the op of this thread has already stated he has a Sony TV this reply will be meaningless to him but could be usefull to others so my apologies for a partial thread hijack,

Plotloss said:

headcase said:

garycat said:

HDMI for DVD to TV, and twin phono for TV to Sony amp (unless your TV has a co-ax or optical output which is unlikely). Most TVs just have stereo phono outputs (red & white) so you won't get true 5.1 surround from TV programs but your amp may be able to fake it.

Edited by garycat on Thursday 14th May 11:17

You havent seen many new TV's then Every new TV i have seen has an optical output

You do have to be carefull though, on some TV's the optical output is NOT a monitor output, sometimes it is just a Freeview Tuner audio output.

And more often than not its two channel only.

I wasnt aware that on Freeview that 5.1 was broadcast or am i way behind the times now , up until now the only set i have extracted 5.1 via its optical output was a pana pz81 and that was on its freesat tuner showing the BBC HD preview.
Or are you refering to the fact that if you send 5.1 from a DVD/BR via HDMI to the TV that you will not get that 5.1 audio from the TV optical output?

[Plotloss]

On many screens if you give it a 5.1 encoded signal over HDMI, the resulting optical output will only carry the front effects.

But please dont let the facts get in the way of your patronising tone.

Edited by Plotloss on Friday 15th May 11:04

[headcase]

There was no intent within my last post, text can easily be read one way or another, was merely trying to point out a specific to people who may have come across a similar problem.

[MitchT]

Bought HDMI and Digital Optical cables from Leeds Sony Centre this morning. Problem solved.

[rhinochopig]

MitchT said:

Bought HDMI and Digital Optical cables from Leeds Sony Centre this morning. Problem solved.

Did you get gold plated optical cables?