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Need Help Setting Up Home Cinema System

  • 15-08-2019 2:00pm
    #1
    pinkfloydian
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭


    Long story, but I hope somebody can help.

    About 10 years ago, I bought a Philips HTS335W Home Theatre System and it still worked fine. I had the following setup.
    Cable TV (Virgin) with HDMI connection to TV
    Home Theatre system with Scart connection to TV
    To watch DVDs, I simply changed the input device

    The TV went bust recently and I bought a new Panasonic TX-49FX550B 49in TV

    However, I now have no Scart connection to the TV. I have a HDMI connecting the DVD player to the TV and it works fine - EXCEPT, when I play a movie, the TV speaker is used and not the cinema system speakers.

    I'm not very good at audio/visual and I'm trying to understand what controls whether the TV speaker should be used or when the cinema speakers should be used.

    For information, I bought a Scart to HDMI converter on Amazon. Not sure if I did the right thing.

    Tommy


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  • #2
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    You may not have scart but I bet you have some composite video connector. Do you have a red white yellow connecotrs?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_connector
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indigo-Banana-RCA-SCART-Adapter/dp/B0035XB4Z4

    The trouble with HDMI to scart is that HDMI is digital and scart is analog.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Forget about the scart,
    Not used anymore.
    Why not use the HDMI out of the Philips HTS335W?


  • #4
    pinkfloydian
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭pinkfloydian


    The Ritz wrote: »
    HDMI wasn't available 10 years ago. it was introduced from late 2002.




    Ritz.

    ???


  • #5
    pinkfloydian
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭pinkfloydian


    BrownFinger wrote: »
    Forget about the scart,
    Not used anymore.
    Why not use the HDMI out of the Philips HTS335W?

    I am


  • #6
    The Ritz
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, RicherSounds.ie Moderator Posts: 2,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Ritz


    pinkfloydian,

    Soz, my error.

    Ritz


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  • #7
    pinkfloydian
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭pinkfloydian


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    You may not have scart but I bet you have some composite video connector. Do you have a red white yellow connecotrs?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_connector
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indigo-Banana-RCA-SCART-Adapter/dp/B0035XB4Z4

    The trouble with HDMI to scart is that HDMI is digital and scart is analog.

    I do indeed. My problem is that the dvd player and the tv are not close to each other. I have wall connectors behind the dvd player and the HDMI/scart to the tv are cabled under the floor. The system also has wireless for the rear speakers. Unusual, I know, but direct cabling to the TV is not an option.

    Tommy


  • #8
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    pinkfloydian wrote: »
    I do indeed. My problem is that the dvd player and the tv are not close to each other. I have wall connectors behind the dvd player and the HDMI/scart to the tv are cabled under the floor. The system also has wireless for the rear speakers. Unusual, I know, but direct cabling to the TV is not an option.

    Tommy

    Use a scart to composite adapter to give you the same setup you had before


  • #9
    SVI40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 675 ✭✭✭SVI40


    Check the settings of the DVD and see if there is a setting to play the audio via HDMI.

    My setup, you can choose to have the video play via one media, and the audio via another.


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