OK home theater guru's. Yesterday I purchased a home theater system with a built in tuner, DVD, VCR combo. Everthing works great except for getting the Cable TV to work. I believe I have the calbe hooked up correctly to the unit but never the less no sound.... I keep seeing an S-VIDEO connection that looks like it would allow you to bypass the standard yellow, red, white audio/video connection.

Any help would be great.

 

S-Video is Video only, you will still need an audio connection. S-video will give you a clearer picture than the standard RCA cable but in my opinion, not enough to run out and buy a $25 to $50 cable.

Check all your connections, maybe try different cables. I have had bad cables in the past which were a ***** to find. If you can tell me more about the unit and the way its hooked up or maybe a picture of the wiring I or someone else may be able to help a little better

 

You should have a red & white RCA jack that says 'Audio Out' of your cable box. Plug some cables in there and to an input on your receiver. Switch to that input. You should have sound. Your other option (if you cable box is new enough) is to use an optical TOSLINK cable (fiber optic) to carry the audio over. Consult your manual on the reciever on how to configure.

FYI - the video signal is carried over that 'yellow' cable. You can use S-Video as a higher-quality option, but since broadcast TV sucks anyway, you prolly will not notice much of a difference...

 

Generally, what these people above say is correct, but a lot depends on your individual system. If you have a Cable/SATELLITE box, VHS player and/or DVD player between your TV and your receiver, than it can get to be a real can of worms as to how to gat all this stuff to work like you want it to, and lots of options in the middle of all that stuff, too.

My suggestion is to go to the Monster Cable web site and check out their connection diagrams. It may help.

Jim

 

Other method: Run all the connections from the cable box into the TV, and hopefully your TV was made this century and has an 'audio out' feature to run to the reciever. Then, you don't have to turn on the reciever to enjoy cable TV. Makes it simpler. Oh, and skip monstercable.com or whatever.. RTFM, it's all in there...

 

While I agree that people should read the f'ing manual...have you seen some of the manuals that come with this stuff?????? Some are VERY incomplete and less than useful.

 

Thanks guys. I got fed up with it last night at about 7:30. The manual was written for about four of there models which makes it a bunch of crappola. I'll have to pickup a couple more cables just to eliminate the obvious. Our cable box and TV are new so I can't see to many problems there but, you never know. I'll report back in after I get a chance to mess with it some more tonight. In all the system sounds freaking awsome....

 

Hey, it could be much worse. You've got what, 5 inputs or so to deal with? Mine's pretty darn close to this model...

 

My HK looks a lot like the rear of that Denon too.

 

Instruction manual? Eh- Thats just one guy's opinion on how it should go together.

 

I hear ya, looks pretty close to mine. And belive it or not all my equipment works great and sounds awesome. I love it.

 

You really suck.

I opted for smaller and all digital.



Well more so great deal instead of opted. Barely has any connections, But enough for what I need now.


Try the S-video connections and compare it to composite and see if you notice a difference or not. Personally on my tv, it was nothing special so S-video is reserved for Xbox and a dvd player until I get a HDTV.

 

I love my Denon. What ever fits your budget and pleases your ears.

I'm thinking about a 'Baby Denon' for upstairs if I ever get my Aquos... http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/art...&page_number=1

Hell, I should sell my 5700 & get two of the 2805s... EDIT: Scratch that, the 2805 didn't have the power I thought it did... gotta keep the 5700.

HDTV & X-box blows... not much diff, and barely any games in 720 or 1080 right now. However, the HD pack is AWESOME for the 5.1 sound. I will give it one kudo, though - colors are more vibrant via the component cables than the composite or S-video.

 

Buy cables online.

S-Video on E-bay goes for about $8 or so for a 12-foot length...or go to Fry's, cheap there, too.