HDMI and blu ray?

Question

if you have a 7.1 surround sound system and it doesn't do HDMI what can you buy so it can do HDMI sound through my system , please i just bought this system and i have blu ray

Answer 1

if it does not support the format you can't! however you may be able to have a custom cable made by straightwire.com to get the most from your system!which i do not know what you have onthe reciever end!! good luck!!!

Answer 2

If your receiver doesn't have HDMI you can't add it. Any device that did it would be a "kludge" and likely almost as expensive as trading the receiver for one with HDMI.

But it only matters if you have a real need for 7.1 sound (which is still relatively rare). For 5.1 sound you can connect the Blu-ray player via digital coax or optical (whichever the player has .. it' doesn't matter which) ... and run the HDMI for video only direct to the HDTV.

If you have discrete analog outputs (multiple RCA ports on the player (some do) you can also use them to connect to the analogous inputs on the receiver (if it has them). This would be an alternative to optical/coax.

Answer 3

Hd sound , your talking about True HD or DTS master audio right?

Well first of all youu can only get it from a Blue-ray player,not from a cable box or regular dvd player.

If your receiver is not hdmi equipped there is one option to get uncompressed True HD sound

Your receiver must have analog Multi-channel inputs in rear,and your blu-ray player must have analog multi-channel outputs.

the chances are good that your receiver has the 7.1 inputs.but while many Blu-ray players have the 5.1 multi-channel output not many if any (yet) have the full 7.1

You can get regular dolby digital and dts with optical/coaxial

connection,but not the new hd sound formats.

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