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Old 12-03-2007, 11:06
scottttyyyy
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Heya

Im looking to get some 5.1 surround sound in my living room, working on a £200 budget. Present set up I have is xbox 360, Virgin HD, Panasonic DVD player, all connected up to my Samsung 32" HD LCD. Now I know its a tight budget, but any help would be appreciated.

Couple I have noticed being the sony hss1000 and the two below, in which I cant find any reveiws on.

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/dev/gui_we...au=1&ArticleId[]=524346&ArticleId[]=440430

Any other advice would be good as im lookin to purchase ASAP.
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Old 12-03-2007, 11:20
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currys do a panasonic for £179.99 which looks acceptable.
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Old 12-03-2007, 12:11
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can you not stretch to £500 and get an amp that will take 2 in/1out hdmi ?

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for a while anyway
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Old 12-03-2007, 13:05
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Thanks for the responses. Checked the panasonic one, looks good but im trying to avoid getting the dvd player. Iv got a dvd recorder and the xbox hd player on its way.

And the £500.....I did have that to spend, but the missus cant be doing without sky one, so we are using part of that to get sky HD, and thats a wacking £300 for their HD box, so hence the £200 max. The sony one i mentioned does have the HDMI 2 input/1output which is kinda tempting me for that reason.

http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/S...e&lead=froogle

Was just curious if there was anything similar, of if the HDMI was really required..obviously advised.
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Old 12-03-2007, 14:25
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I have the SS1000 and am more than please with it. It might not have all the inputs/outputs of some other systems, but it is a very neat unit. I use it to connect up the following, Sky HD, Upscaling DVD and DVD recorder.
If I did not have the recorder I would only need one cable from the amp to TV, keeps things very tidy.
99.9% of all my viewing at the moment seems to be from Sky.

Just be aware there are certain input selections. This is how I have them.

Vid 2 = hdmi + optical input ( Sky HD )
DVD = hdmi + coax input ( Upscaling DVD )
sacd = optical input. ( DVD recorder )

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Old 12-03-2007, 14:48
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click on installer and see what you reckon to hdmi.... its quite interesting

http://hdmi.com/learningcenter/installer_training.asp
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