How Do You Connect A Tv To A Home Theatre Stereo System?
January 24, 2010 by Rich
Filed under Frequently Asked Questions
I have a 32″ magnavox LCD tv and I just bought an RCA rt2770 home theatre system and I have no idea how to set up the system to play the sounds from the tv through the system. Same with an xbox to the system.
Depends on the inputs & outputs you have on both. You should have optical audio on both. Buy an optical audio cable and connect it from the TV optical audio Out to the optical audio IN to the receiver. Connect the xbox to the tv.
If you have HDMI connections then use those instead.
Some tv’s don’t have audio out, but yours might, check the back! you’ll need 2rca cables to go from there to one of the audio inputs on your 2770.
There will be an option to select from a source on the 2770, which lets you get sound from any one of the audio inputs.
If you don’t have audio out from the tv, you’ll have to use a seperate tuner that has audio out. A vcr does this, but cheap ones will screw up the sound just a bit sometimes. It means you’d have to change channels with the vcr. I’d just go buy a digital tuner if i was you.
Check if it has a Opitcal connection both if you the cable you need will look similiar to this
http://ukhdmi.com/XO_Digital_Optical_Cable_3m___3_Metre_Premium_Install_Series_QQ101816
Or if has HDMI then you can use a HDMI Cable to connect it that should like like
http://ukhdmi.com/Cablesson_Kaiser_14_HEAC_1M_HDMI_Cable_QQ101780