Connecting HDTV to HD Cable Box and A/V Receiver
What is the best way to connect an HDTV (with HDMI, Component Video connections) to a HD Cable box and A/V Receiver?
My solution, but others may have a different opinion.
Cable video directly to the TV, via either component or HDMI. There's no loss either way.
Cable audio directly to AVR, via either toslink or coaxial cable. There's no loss either way.
Additionally, I run a pair of red/white analog interconnects directly to the TV so I'm not forced to use the AVR for every program. I just keep the TV volume all the way down when using the AVR. Depending on your cable box and TV, this interconnect may not even be needed to accomplish this if you use HDMI.
first off. the only source that NEEDS HDMI is Blu-ray or HD-DVD.
Otherwise, there's no reason either HDMI or component won't work just as well.
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Originally Posted by Ace H
I'll be setting this up for a neighbor. Suppose my neighbor decides that on occasion they want to watch HD TV WITHOUT the A/V Receiver on.
If you follow my instructions in the previous post (# 2) you'll be able to do just what you want here.
If you replace where I said "cable" in that post with "DVD", you'll be able to accomplish the same thing for that as well. The only change might be that you will need to run separate 5.1 analog audio interconnects to he receiver's external 5.1 alalog audio inputs for the hi-falutin' HD super audio formats.
You'll be using the TV for video swiching and the AVR for audio switchng.