Does it make a difference if I hook up my dvd player's etc. audio through the tv then to to a Home theater sy?

Question

As of now its set up so that each game system and the dvd player go to the inputs separately and my parents can't figure out how to switch between them. I can set it up so that everything runs through the tv and than to the home theater system and it al gets controlled by the tv remote. My question is: will this effect the quality in any way?

Answer 1

Yes it will with most TV sets. Many TVs will not pass the digital signal properly so you need a direct connection between your various sources and your receiver. In my system if I pass it through the TV first I only get stereo 48kHz sound, not 5.1 96kHz sound. That is why I have everything connected directly to my receiver and to the TV set.

Answer 2

You will loose some quality if you dont have a direct connection to the theater system.

Answer 3

You haven't given enough information on your system or what you expect.  Are you running digital audio (optical or coax) from your DVD player?  Do you get Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound?  If that is the case, you cannot do what you want, because the TV will not pass through the digital audio from DVD player to its digital audio output.

However, if you are using analog stereo connections (red & white connectors) for audio, then I suspect you can get the audio from the DVD player through the TV audio output.  Then you will only get Dolby Pro-Logic (analog) surround.