Home Theater and HDTV hookup?

Question

I have a audio receiver and hd cable receiver. Do I hook the cable receiver video up to the audio receiver? Would that take away from the picture? Do you have to hookup the video to the audio receiver or just the audio to the audio receiver to have surround sound?

Answer 1

First it depends and what cables you are using to hook it all together If using HDMI cables the video and audio are all in the cable, and most receivers can pass the video signal without signal degradation.  But yes you could just connect the audio portion to the receiver for sound and just hook up the video portion to the TV.

Answer 2

ok, you want to hook up the audio and video going out of the cable receiver, and plug it into your hd television in the appropriate input ports. Then you want to get an audio cable and place it going from the audio output of your hd television, and into your audio receiver.

Answer 3

Actually it depends on what inputs and outputs you have on your audio receiver.

The best case senerio would be that your audio receiver has both HDMI inputs and HDMI outputs. If this is the case you run an HDMI cable from the cable receiver to the audio receiver and a second one from the auido reciever to the TV. This option won't take away from the picture at all and it SHOULD provide the best quality audio from the cable receiver to the audio receiver.

There is no other circumstance where you should hook the video from your cable box to your audio reciever because in all other instances it doesn't process the signal in anyway just passes it on to the TV with a minimal (usually undectable loss of video quality).

Answer 4

The video out from your HD cable receiver should hook up to the tv  through any of these: component cable (red blue and green), HDMI, or DVI

The audio out from your HD cable receiver hooks to the audio inputs of your Audio receiver through any of these:

regular RCA cables (red and white) or optical cables, or hook up RCA cables to individual jacks to all 5.1 channels ( the 1 is for the subwoofer).

Answer 5

No, you don't have to run the cable video through the audio receiver to get surround sound -- only the audio [I am assuming you are using either composite video (yellow connector) or component video cables (red, green & blue connectors)].  The video quality may become worse or better when run through your audio receiver depending upon your specific system.  I recommend running your cable video output directly to your TV, bypassing the receiver if possible.  Good luck.