New home theatre system. Cant seem to make work? (1 Viewer)

[Kenny202]

Just got a new Panasonic home theatre. Fairly basic machine, DVD.
My idea was everything goes into the Theatre / DVD as a hub and is fed beck to the TV from there.
The gear I have is.....
Panasonic Theatre / DVD.....One HDMI jack, set of Audio in AV red and white
One yellow AV video out jack
Samsung LED TV..................2 HDMI jacks, set of AV inputs (red, white, yell)
IPM Satellite.........................1 HDMI jack, 1 set of AV out puts (red, white, yell)
The DVD works fine sound everything ok as it is built in to the theatre.
I may have the rest set up right? I'm not sure. My thinking was the Satellite would hook up to the Theatre hub with one HDMI cable and then one HDMI cable back to the TV to bring all signals in. Therefore I was expecting 2 or 3 HDMI jacks on the theatre? Not the case as above and bare in mind I'm an idiot.
What I have done to make it work is run a HDMI cable from the TV to the home theatre. Then I have run the satellite HDMI into the TV. To get the Satellite sound I have run a red and white AV lead from the AV output of the satellite to the theatre AV in. So everything working but a lot of mucking around with remotes, changing input signals etc. Am I doing something wrong? Like I said I would have thought the normal would be to bring Satellite to the Theatre by HDMI cable and then another HDMI cable back to the TV. This would of course require 2 HDMI slots on the Theatre system. Help!

 

[schan1269]

That is why nobody likes HTiB.

A real AVR does what you wish. There are some HTiB with two HDMI inputs. But they get into the price of a real AVR.

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

My thinking was the Satellite would hook up to the Theatre hub with one HDMI cable and then one HDMI cable back to the TV to bring all signals in. Therefore I was expecting 2 or 3 HDMI jacks on the theatre?

Sure, the idea of the “Theater” as a hub that all the gear plugs into, with a single feed to the TV, is the generally accepted practice. I see this problem all the time with people going cheap on the electronics and then find out it’s not flexible enough to meet their needs.


You didn’t check into the Panasonic’s connectivity capabilities before buying it? Most manufacturers have on-line manuals that will tell you that stuff. One of the “rules of thumb” before buying any A/V equipment – source components, A-V receiver/HTIB/soundbar, even the TV – is to make sure it has the connections you need to hook everything together.


Regards,

Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[Aaron Silverman]

Some TVs have an Audio Return Channel feature. If your HTiB and TV support it, then you could run the satellite HDMI to the TV, then have a single HDMI cable between the TV and the HTiB. The TV would then send its own audio (from the satellite feed) back to the HTiB. However, I'm not 100% sure this is supported -- it might only work for the TV's internal audio (in which case it might still get the audio but probably wouldn't get a DD or DTS multichannel signal).


You'd have to check your gear to see if it supports this.


http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_1_4/arc.aspx