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Thanks for the reply. I'm not very familiar with the cables. I looked on RadioShack's website and the only mega cables I saw was for speaker wire. They have a RadioShack brand gold series s-video cable for $23 compared to a Phillips one for $5. I assume the more expensive gold ones would work...

As some of you might remember from some of my previous posts, I had an old tv that I was using for my setup that only had a vhf/uhf cable in and that's it. I recently got a newer tv with more options: L/R in & out audio, video in, ant/cable, s-video. My question is, what do I need cable wise to...

I just purchased the Sony (SS-CN550H) center channel speaker and a pair of Sony floor speakers (SS-MF550H) at Best Buy for my HT setup for Christmas. Does anyone have these speakers and could give me a review of them? I could only spend about $200-$250 and these speakers were in my price range...

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for your help. "highnthemnts", your reviews were very helpful. I decided to take back the tv (didn't even open it, wanted to make sure I got a full refund and not store credit). I think my best bet is to wait to get a widescreen HD 16:9 tv in the future...

Thanks for your review. I'm now feeling less excited about this purchase. I'm going to have to find out what Best Buy's return policy is in regards to tvs before I do anything with it. I watch tv shows more than I watch dvds so it sounds like since the picture size has to be adjusted for each...

Thanks for the help guys. Thanks Jeremy for the detailed explanation of the details. I picked up the Insignia 27" Flat-Tube HDTV yesterday morning at Best Buy. I'm really excited to get it, they only had 2 left when I got there. Unfortunately it's going to be a Christmas present for me so I have...

Thanks Jeremy for the help. Do I need digital cable or satellite for an HDTV to work right? I have regular analog cable. I would guess that DVD's would work better and it wouldn't matter which kind of cable I have but for tv viewing with analog cable would hdtv be beneficial? I'm looking at...

Thanks Ed for the quick reply. I went through my receiver settings and noticed that I do have it set as "*" which means none for the center speaker. I think my setup sounds good, I just wasn't sure if it would sound even better with a center speaker or not. Here's what my settings look like...

I was hoping you guys could give me your opinion on something... I'm thinking about upgrading my home theater and adding either a new tv or a center speaker. I currently have an old console style tv with only a vhf/uhf round plug on the back. My home theater also consists of a Pioneer...

Yeah, I turned off the midnight effect. I went through the effect settings (off, midnight, loudness) and found that the midnight effect sounded the best but no bass so I went with the loudness effect which sounded better then nothing at all. I now have good bass and it sounds good. I can go...

I think I finally figured out what was wrong. As I expected it was a receiver setting. On my receiver I can adjust the relative volume level of each channel. Well when I first got the receiver last year I didn't have a sub so I adjusted those values for the fronts and the surrounds. Well when I...

Yeah, my speakers setup is set at FS-C*-SS. The subwoofer is set to "ON" automatically the manual says since I set the speakers to small. The cross-over is set to 100. The lfeatt is 0, the fch is 10ft., the cch is non, the sch is 5ft., the drc is off, says ch1, coax is off, opt. is set to dvd...

JohnCZ...according to the receiver manual it says that anything with a cone size (diameter) larger than 5 inches, to set the speaker size to large. I tried to set my fronts to small like you said and still nothing coming from the sub. I even cycled through the speaker size options that are...

I received the Yamaha YST-SW215 subwoofer for Christmas to add to my home theater system. I got the Monster Bass 300 subwoofer cable for it. I also got the Sony SLV-D350P DVD/VCR combo player. I got the combo player hooked up and it works great. My problem is I can't get the subwoofer to...

So is my thinking correct then? With the VCR that I have now there's no way that I can have surround sound through the VCR since it only has a single plug for audio out instead of a L/R audio out? So I need a VCR that has a L/R audio out and then I would get sound from all 4 speakers correct? I...

Well I checked my VCR manual and it shows an audio input and audio output connector and an "in1" and "out" for video on the back. On the front it has "audio in 2" and "video in 2". So with that said it looks like I only have one audio out and it's not a L/R out, it's just one connector. I would...

First of all thanks for the replies... I just worked with a few settings for the surround sound through the receiver settings and I have the options of "standard, advanced surround, and stereo". I had it on stereo but I was trying out the different settings and came across the advanced...

Could someone please help me setup my home theater? I need some help with the speaker setup. I'm open to any other configuration options if you have them, I'm new to this and am trying my best to set this up. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! The receiver & dvd player was a Christmas...