Installation Help (1 Viewer)

[ZibanitumX]

i just recently got a home theater system that only has the six red and white rca jacks... no coaxial input or anything like that.... the jacks are R, L, C, W, SL, SR... now my tv and dvd player only has 1 red and 1 white jack and then the coaxial/ digital audio jack...... is there a converter to plug into the coaxial to have the six rca jacks.... if so can you please give me the site or storw to do this...

Thx in advance

 

[Ed Moxley]

What is the brand and model number of your system?
What you're describing sounds more like speaker connections, instead of inputs.....

 

[bpickell]

What it sounds like to me that he is describing is an old Dolby prologic receiver. If it only has the analog stereo red/white rca jacks then I would say that it is not compatible to the digital formats such as AC-3 Dolby Digital, or DTS...

But to answer your question.. The red and white connections are audio only.. For Video you would either use S-Video connection (looks kind of like a large keyboard port), yellow analog RCA port, Component (looks like RCA ports but are red, blue, green), or if your DVD player and TV supports it HDMI. From the sounds of it with the receiver you have you don't have the ability to use video switching, only audio.. So you would just run the audio to the receiver and the video to the tv.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

5.1 channel analog Dolby inputs wouldn't be red and white. There would have been a total of 6 of them, in straight line. Kevin sounds like he is describing 6 pairs of RCA jacks, one red, one white. And Ed's right - that sounds like speaker outputs for a surround receiver or HTiB, possibly Dolby Pro Logic rather than DD, which has no inputs at all.

We'll definitely need the make and model number of all the components, but this doesn't sound promising. Kevin you say you "recently got" the system. Does this mean you bought it (new or used?) or that it was given to you? HT technology, like computer tech, advances at a relentless pace, and if this is older equipment it likely isn't going to be compatible with newer stuff or even terribly useful.

Regards,

Joe