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HD home cinema?

post #1 of 3
11/14/07 at 2:52am
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I hope that this is the right place to clear my mind.
I have a full HDTV Samsung LE40M86BD, with 3 HDMI inputs.
I have a cable box with one HDMI output.
Now the TV is connected through the HDMI directly to the TV.
Can one of you tell me what kind of home cinema/theater I should buy?
In the future I should connect the TV trough the home theater? If not how I should connect the TV with the home theater in order to enjoy the sound.
The DVD player should be HD? Or I’m totally confused?

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post #2 of 3
11/16/07 at 5:16pm

Re: HD home cinema?

I would recommend getting a home theater receiver & speakers separately. The "home theater in a box" solutions tend to have mediocre speakers & receivers that have few inputs that limit your options for expansion in the future. Exactly which receiver + speakers depends greatly on your total budget, tastes, requirements, search the "receivers" and "speakers" sections of this forum for ideas.

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If not how I should connect the TV with the home theater in order to enjoy the sound.

Typically you connect the cable box (or DVR/Tivo) digital output (coax/Toslink/HDMI) to the receiver for your sound. You wouldn't need to connect the TV audio to the receiver unless you are utilizing the built-in tuner of the TV.

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The DVD player should be HD?
You would need a HD-DVD player, Blu-ray player, both, or a dual-format player to enjoy HD movies on disc. Different movie studios are supporting one camp or the other, with one major studio neutral supporting both. At this point it's unclear whether the format war stalemate will resolve itself one way or the other, continue indefinitely, or cause neither to ever be able to displace regular DVD.
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post #3 of 3
11/16/07 at 7:36pm

Re: HD home cinema?

However, if you are gunshy about the format war, a good stopgap measure is to buy an upconverting DVD player with an HDMI out. It's not true HD, but it still looks pretty good.
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