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Home Cinema
Hope this is the right forum, also I hope I don't bore people with this question....
I want to purchase a Home Cinema system. Some come with a DVD player and some don't. The ones that don't come with a reciever. I already have a DVD player so I guess I can get the one with the reciever. Is it the case that I can only watch DVD's with my home cinema. I have SKY digital and some of there films are broadcast in 5.1. Can I connect my SKY box to the reciever. Sorry for such stupid questions but i don't want to buy the wrong thing. |
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Originally Posted by Warleb
Hope this is the right forum, also I hope I don't bore people with this question....
I want to purchase a Home Cinema system. Some come with a DVD player and some don't. The ones that don't come with a reciever. I already have a DVD player so I guess I can get the one with the reciever. Is it the case that I can only watch DVD's with my home cinema. I have SKY digital and some of there films are broadcast in 5.1. Can I connect my SKY box to the reciever. Sorry for such stupid questions but i don't want to buy the wrong thing. |
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Ok thanks for that. I shall now go shopping......
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Just before you do..............remember, it's only Sky+ that has an optical digital out socket.
'Ordinary' Sky digital does not have this connection so you will not be able to listen to movies broadcast in 5.1 in this format. You need to connect using audio L/R phonos and make use of your system's ProLogic II processing. Good hunting, Rgds, Scorp |
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you mean I can't connect my sky digital box full stop, or I can if I use and audio L/R phones. Can you not buy a scart lead that has audio L/R lead coming off of it so that I could plug that into the reciever...
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There are left and right outputs on the normal sky box so you will be fine. Can i suggest the LG FA-P3000 from argos for £140, as you can see on the left I have one. It has an optical, coaxial and phono input with dolby digital, DTS and pro logic 2 processing. Basically that means that you will definatly be able to connect your DVD player up, and the normal sky box. It is a great system with none of the problems of other budget systems. Cant rate it highly enough
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Originally Posted by Warleb
you mean I can't connect my sky digital box full stop, or I can if I use and audio L/R phones. Can you not buy a scart lead that has audio L/R lead coming off of it so that I could plug that into the reciever...
you can connect using L/R phonos but the best sound you can get from this type of input is a ProLogic II enhanced surround (but this is pretty good - better than PL1). Make sure your amp has this in addition to DD and DTS. Also get optical and digital inputs, you may upgrade to Sky+ or add additional input devices. Rgds, Scorp |
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ok, thanks for the good advice....
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Hope someone could help me as well! Was looking for something in the price range of the LG FA-P3000 at around £140.
Basically was hoping to find a system i could hook up my Sky+, DVD player and Playstation2 to without any problems...any ideas? |
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Originally Posted by jrmich9
Hope someone could help me as well! Was looking for something in the price range of the LG FA-P3000 at around £140.
Basically was hoping to find a system i could hook up my Sky+, DVD player and Playstation2 to without any problems...any ideas? Maplins did sell an optical switch box which allowed three inputs to be fed (one at a time) to one amp optical input. |
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Hi again, have been looking for an optical switch box which allows 3 inputs to be fed to one amp optical input, but have so far been unsuccesful. Couldnt find one on the Maplins site. Does anyone know where I might find one, or maybe have a link to such a product on a website or anything? Thanx..!
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I remember seeing in our maplin's catalogue at work that they DO supply an optical switch thingy but it may have been for just two connections and not three. Apart from that I'm not sure.
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