I have just purchased a Sony Home Theatre. I need to connnect my audio for my DVD player to the Home Theatre.

Question

I have an orange cord output on the tuner, however, there is no imput on my dvd player. What else can I use? We can't get anything to work. The dvd player has an optical imput and red and white cords...

Answer 1

You have that reversed. The DVD player has OUTPUTS only unless it is a recorder/player. If it can record, then and only then does it have inputs of any kind. You are stuck with the red and white Goesoutas from the player to the Goesintas of the tuner. That is strictly analog audio. The orange is a coaxial digital cable. While it looks like the same RCA connectors as the red and whites, it's not. Both left and right channels are carried by one special cable. Same holds true for the Toslink or "optical". As for video, that is either a yellow "composit" cable, an S-video cable with a round multi-pin plug resembling an European DIN connector or a "midi" connector. Hook the video to that for a sharp picture. DJS is totally wrong. There is no audio in an S-video cable. Then there is "componant video" with red, blue and green for best picture color. Simply hook the Goesoutas of the player to the Sony's Goesintas. Inputs come into the Sony (Goesinas), outputs come from the DVD player (Goesoutas).

Answer 2

Someone needs to read other responses better before they comment on them!

Answer 3

Sounds like a problem I had not too long ago. I had to purchase a selector box that would allow me to connect my satellite box, DVD player, VCR, and playstation together with each having their own assisgned input. After doing this, I was able to run the output from the selector box to my surround sound. After all connections were done, this allowed me to select whichever unit I wanted to watch (and listen to) in true surround sound. The selector box has 1 output in the back of the unit and 4 inputs, 3 in the back of the unit and one on the front and I think it cost around $20 bucks at Wal-Mart. All connections are either RCA cables (red & white for sound and yellow for video) or S-video cable which covers video only. Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Many options -

1. see the red&white audio outputs on your dvd player? run RCA cables from these into your tuners audio inputs (should be colour coded).

2. Buy an optical cable (normally you have to buy this - doesnt come with packages) run this between your dvd player output & tuner input. Read your manual - you may have to program the tuner to know the sound is coming via digital optical cable.

3. If you have coaxial output on your dvd player & coaxial input on your tuner then buy a coaxial cable.

Option 3 will give you the best quality, option 2 is 2nd best, option 3 is a last resort - you effectively only have stereo sound played through 5.1 speakers (i assume this is what you have?)