Pioneer 860W HTP-2950DV 5.1 Channel Home Theater System Question?

Question

i am looking to upgrade my home theater and keep extra spending at bay. I came across this receiver/dvd system at best buy.com and liked the price and the rave reviews it was getting. i have a projector, and right now i am only able to use component input through an adapter onto the back of my projector (Infocus x1a). I was looking at the back of the receiver and dvd player on best buy site and am wondering how i am going to hook it up? what cables do i need? for instance, i would use a monster component cable to hook the dvd player up to the projector,but how does the receiver connect to the dvd player? what cables does this require? and does this lose any quality in sound and video quality? i need help from somebody that knows this stuff...thanks! The product code for the Pioneer System is HTP-2950DV and it would be hooked up to an Infocus x1a projector (through an adapter i purchased through infocus). PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

In focus uses a funny din plug with 7 pins that looks like an svideo connector. You need to connect the component out of the Pioneer receiver to that input on your projector. You may have to purchase a different adaptor from In Focus.

The speakers connect to the receiver. Make sure you don't mix them up or cross between possitive and negative.

Hooking your DVD player and cable/satellite box into your receiver is unclear from the Best Buy web site and Pioneer doesn't even list this model on theirs. (such that I could find it anyway)

Call Best Buy. You want everything (DVD and cable/sat) to work at the Component Video level. Find out from them if this is possible with the 2950 and make them show you how to do it. Don't settle for composite or s video!