No sound from 5.1 dvd amp

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Hi my friend has just bought a new home theater kit and Tv along with a virgin media tivo box.

What he wants to do is get the sound from the tv coming out through the speakers of the 5.1 dvd player.

The model numbers for the parts are PS43E450A1W which is a 43" samsung tv and SC-XH70 which is a panasonic 5.1 dvd player plus a virgin media tivo box.

The outputs on the panasonic dvd are limited to 1 x rca and 1 x hdmi. The hdmi is currently going to the tv giving 5.1 sound when a dvd is played.

I hooked up the rca on the panasonic (L&R) to the (L&R) connection on the tv but nothing and told the tv external speakers and still nothing.

The tivo box doesnt have any real connections for the dvd to hook up to as they all seem to be digital or optical and all the panasonic has is rca.

How do I go about getting this to work?
 
From what I can gather looking at the specs of the TV, the RCA connections are input, not output. It seems the only audio outputs on the TV, are the SPDIF optical connection and headphone out. Looking on the website, there are two manuals. One has optical listed in the specs, the other has RCA. The model numbers are different though. The XH170 is the one with optical input. Pity your friend didn't go for that one.

That's one of the downsides of these cheap 5.1 all in one DVD system, you get almost no extra connections for other equipment.

He will have to use the headphone out. Not ideal, as the quality is poor from TV headphone outputs. It's there for convenience only. Only other way, would be to buy a DAC (digital to analogue converter).
 
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Marsman said:
From what I can gather looking at the specs of the TV, the RCA connections are input, not output. It seems the only audio outputs on the TV, are the SPDIF optical connection and headphone out. Looking on the website, there are two manuals. One has optical listed in the specs, the other has RCA. The model numbers are different though. The XH170 is the one with optical input. Pity your friend didn't go for that one.

That's one of the downsides of these cheap 5.1 all in one DVD system, you get almost no extra connections for other equipment.

He will have to use the headphone out. Not ideal, as the quality is poor from TV headphone outputs. It's there for convenience only. Only other way, would be to buy a DAC (digital to analogue converter).
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Thank you first for your reply and taking the time to have a look :-)

I totally agree with you and saw what you mean about the 2 manuals.

There is literally nothing that will hook this up Ive been mucking about with it since 9 this morning so I have just text him telling him to return it under DSR and choose again this time when im sitting beside him.

Thanks so much again for replying mate :-)
 
there are only 3 ways to get 5.1 to work HDMI, Optical or coax.

the 5.1 dvd players do not have an input for these so you cannot do it.

They only have RCA which you can input but will not give you surround sound it will be stereo from all speakers. So you will have people in front of you talking behind your ears.

The only sound output is from the optical on that tv so you can't do it.

this is the main reason never ever ever to buy the surround sound kits like this. Spend the extra and get stand-alone amp, speakers, Blu-ray.
 
cammy5477 said:
would this work to give him stereo output?
http://www.thomann.de/gb/lindy_audiokonverter_spdif_analog.htm?gclid=CJHou9b08bQCFW3MtAodpEUA0Q

Passey what can I say but hes tight :-)

There are other 5.1 dvd players with spdif input on them if he was to dsr and get one of these that would give him 5.1 through the tv right?
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yeh he would get stereo from that.

Use it from the Tivo to the amp though not the TV.

The SKY+ boxes have analogue and optical which is a bit more usefull looks like virgin dropped the analogue on the new TiVo boxes.

If it has optical (SPDIF input) then yes.
 
With the New amps they have HDMI in and a HDMI out so you would go

Blu-ray ---> AMP--->TV
Tivo ---> AMP --->TV

With the older amps like mien I go

Blu-ray ---HDMI--->TV
---> Optical--->AMP

Means twice as much rats nest.

Richer sounds have some pretty cheap amps
 
cammy5477 said:
If he used his old virgin box from up the stairs would he just get stereo using the rca hook up?
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yes. you can only have 5.1 though Coax, optical or HDMI.

for 7.1 its HDMI only

RCA is stereo.

Optical also only support DTS but don't think that matters on a dvd amp thingy.

Also optical is not a lossless audio so you won't get the "true" sound (Dolby TrueHD). to get that you have to use HDMI connection. but this is probably getting a bit too technical for what your after.
 
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