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Do you want to enjoy watch­ing movies in excel­lent qual­i­ty with­out leav­ing your home? Home the­ater is your best assis­tant in this. It is nec­es­sary to debunk the myth that the con­nec­tion varies great­ly depend­ing on the TV man­u­fac­tur­er, be it Sony, Sam­sung, LG, Pana­son­ic, Philips, etc. Not at all — the scheme is the same, but there are some nuances in the con­nec­tors used, and they depend not on the brand, but on the age of the TV. “KP” will tell you how to con­nect a home the­ater to a TV quick­ly and cor­rect­ly.

IMPORTANT!

Make sure that when con­nect­ing the home the­ater to the TV, all devices are dis­con­nect­ed from the mains and de-ener­gized!

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HDMI

The most con­ve­nient and mod­ern option, but it is not avail­able on old­er TV mod­els. This for­mat is suit­able for trans­mit­ting audio and video in high qual­i­ty and saves you from a lot of wires and lengthy set­tings.

On the receiv­er, you need to con­nect the cable to the HDMI con­nec­tor marked “OUT”, and on the TV to the con­nec­tor marked “IN”. The con­ve­nience of this method, as already men­tioned, is that we con­nect both video and audio sig­nals with one wire.

Now you need to con­nect the receiv­er to the sig­nal source and audio sys­tem. First, con­nect the set-top box to a DVD or Blue-ray play­er. To do this, on the rear pan­el of the play­er we find an HDMI con­nec­tor or ana­log con­nec­tors (sim­ple “tulips”) marked “OUT” and con­nect them to the cor­re­spond­ing jack on the receiv­er, but marked “IN”.

Next, con­nect the speak­ers and sub­woofer to the con­sole. There are two types of con­nec­tions — clamp­ing (wires are attached under small clothes­pins) and thread­ed (wires are screwed to the con­tacts). It is impor­tant to fol­low the order — for exam­ple, do not con­nect a cen­ter speak­er in place of a sub­woofer or rear speak­ers in place of the front ones.

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Optical cable

If HDMI or SCART, when con­nect­ing a home the­ater to a TV, allow you to imme­di­ate­ly con­fig­ure both the video and audio sig­nal, then if you use the ana­log video con­nec­tion method, you need to con­nect the sound addi­tion­al­ly. Opti­cal (or fiber optic) cable is the best option for this qual­i­ty. The advan­tage of such a cable is its resis­tance to elec­tro­mag­net­ic radi­a­tion.

In order to con­nect a home the­ater, you need to con­nect one end of the cable to the “OUT” jack on the receiv­er, and the oth­er to the “IN” jack on the TV. This will make the sound clear, with­out any inter­fer­ence. True, not all TVs have the abil­i­ty to receive a sig­nal through opti­cal fiber — some­times they only work on the “out­put”.

After suc­cess­ful­ly con­nect­ing the sound, you need to con­nect the video trans­mis­sion from the receiv­er to the TV (you can use HDMI or “tulips”), and then con­nect the set-top box to the sig­nal source and audio sys­tem accord­ing to the algo­rithm indi­cat­ed in the first para­graph.

Coaxial cable

Anoth­er way to trans­mit audio when con­nect­ing a home the­ater to a TV is through a coax­i­al con­nec­tor. In terms of qual­i­ty, it is slight­ly worse than fiber optic, but the cable itself is more bulky and less flex­i­ble, which can cause cer­tain dif­fi­cul­ties dur­ing instal­la­tion.

This type of cable must be con­nect­ed to the “Coax­i­al OUT” jack of the receiv­er and “Coax­i­al IN” of the TV. In appear­ance, it resem­bles an “anten­na” entrance.

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After suc­cess­ful­ly con­nect­ing the audio, you need to con­nect the video trans­mis­sion from the receiv­er to the TV, and then con­nect the sig­nal source and audio sys­tem to the set-top box.

Analog connectors

The old­est and low­est qual­i­ty way to con­nect a home the­ater to a TV, which is worth using only if there is no oth­er method avail­able. Tulip wires should be con­nect­ed to the receiver’s audio and video jacks marked “OUT”. The oth­er ends of the wires are con­nect­ed to the same jacks on the TV, but labeled “IN”.

It is impor­tant at the same time to observe the col­or mark­ing — it will help you to cor­rect­ly deal with the con­nec­tion. Most often, the yel­low “tulip” is respon­si­ble for the video, and the red and white — for the audio. Thus, they should be con­nect­ed to the con­nec­tors of the cor­re­spond­ing col­or.

SCART connector

This method of con­nect­ing a home the­ater to a TV is some­what sim­i­lar to con­nect­ing via HDMI, but has a worse trans­mis­sion qual­i­ty. As a rule, such a con­nec­tor is used on old­er mod­els of TVs and equip­ment.

We con­nect one end of the wire to the SCART con­nec­tor on the TV. There is usu­al­ly only one, but make sure it’s marked “IN” any­way. We find the cor­re­spond­ing sock­et on the back of the receiv­er. If it is not there (this may be if the home the­ater is of a new gen­er­a­tion), then you will need a SCART-RCA adapter (ordi­nary “tulips”), or a ready-made cable of this type. We con­nect “tulips” to the receiv­er, to the jacks marked “OUT”. It is impor­tant to observe col­or mark­ing here. As a rule, yel­low “tulip” is respon­si­ble for video, and red and white — for audio.

There­after? accord­ing to the already known scheme, we con­nect the sig­nal source and the audio sys­tem to the receiv­er.

S‑video connector

Con­nect­ing a home the­ater to a TV via an ana­log S‑Video (sep­a­rate video) con­nec­tor is quite old, as is the way to con­nect through “tulips”. Suf­fice it to say that these days this con­nec­tor is not on every device. Giv­en this, it should be under­stood that the video trans­mis­sion will be of poor qual­i­ty, as when work­ing with the men­tioned “tulips”.

To con­nect the cin­e­ma to the TV in this way, you need to con­nect one end of the spe­cial S‑Video wire to the receiv­er, to the jack marked “OUT”, and the oth­er end to the TV, to the jack marked “IN”. It is worth not­ing that it is almost impos­si­ble to mix up the sock­ets — this con­nec­tor has a spe­cif­ic Mini-DIN inter­face.

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After suc­cess­ful­ly con­nect­ing the video via S‑Video, it remains to con­nect the sound from the receiv­er to the TV (using an opti­cal, coax­i­al or ana­log cable), and then assem­ble the cin­e­ma set­up. To do this, as men­tioned above, you need to con­nect a pow­er source and an audio sys­tem to the receiv­er.

How to output sound from TV to audio system?

In order to use high-qual­i­ty speak­ers not only for watch­ing movies from a home the­ater, but also for nor­mal TV view­ing, you need to make small manip­u­la­tions with con­nect­ing audio cables. If, when con­nect­ing a cin­e­ma, you con­nect­ed a wire (or wires in the case of using “tulips”) to the “OUT” jack of the receiv­er and the “IN” of the TV, now you need to do the oppo­site. That is, con­nect the audio to “OUT” on the TV and to “IN” on the set-top box. After that, in the audio set­tings on the TV, you need to change “Speak­ers” to “Exter­nal audio sys­tem”.

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Hap­py view­ing!

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