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Question about connecting a blu ray player to an existing Panasonic home theater system???

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Hello all:

I currently have a Panasonic SAPT 960 receiver with a built in 5 disc dvd. The receiver only has one HDMI out connection plus the other traditional audio/video connections. I am thinking about buying a blu ray player to add to this. Will it connect? I was told that I could run a HDMI cable to the tv from the blu ray player and then an optical audio from the blu ray player to the Panasonic receiver( It does have an optical audio in connection). Will this work, plus on my receiver, what input would I use to get the audio to play. The HDMI out is going to the the TV already, and I am not sure the sound will come through the system correctly. THe possible selections from the receiver are CD/DVD,auxilary, etc. THanks in advance for all responses!!
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I was told that I could run a HDMI cable to the tv from the blu ray player and then an optical audio from the blu ray player to the Panasonic receiver

That will work and is the best option. By using optical instead of HDMI for the audio you won't get the HD audio available on Bluray; but you will still get the high quality DTS and DD surroud modes (as on DVDs). You will probably want to go into the TV menu and turn off HDMI audio; but that's not absolutely necessary, you can just keep the volume on 0 on the TV. You can use any of CD, DVD, or Aux for the optical connection. The choice has no audio properties, it just a convenience feature so that the input is "labeled" (they could be called input-1, input-2, and input-3). The only connection you wouldn't want to use if it were available in a phono input.
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