Connecting Blu Ray Player to HT

[vikrantsp]

Hello,

I recently bought a Samsung F6500 Blu Ray Player (which is awesome btw :clapping. It has 7.1 Optical Digital Output.

I was planning to buy a Home Theater System (Phillips DSP56U or something similar) since it has 5.1, FM and is @ 5K (though my budget is ~10-15K).

The problem I am facing is that most of the HTS I auditioned had RCA Inputs only!!! None had Optical Digital ones.

Please suggest how should I move forward...

My TV and Blu Ray Player, both have Optical Digital Output only.

And I would like to get 7.1 or atleast 5.1 output.

 

[baijuxavior]

Buy a yamaha yht196. It is around 20K. You can connect the BDP to the htib using hdmi cable.

 

[just4kix]

Hello,

I recently bought a Samsung F6500 Blu Ray Player (which is awesome btw :clapping. It has 7.1 Optical Digital Output.

I was planning to buy a Home Theater System (Phillips DSP56U or something similar) since it has 5.1, FM and is @ 5K (though my budget is ~10-15K).

The problem I am facing is that most of the HTS I auditioned had RCA Inputs only!!! None had Optical Digital ones.

Please suggest how should I move forward...

My TV and Blu Ray Player, both have Optical Digital Output only.

And I would like to get 7.1 or atleast 5.1 output.

7.1 output is not possible on Optical-out. 7.1 output is possible over HDMI only. You must have read it wrong. A Blu-ray player must have HDMI-out - please check carefully - else it is fit to be junked.

If you are buying any HT system, ensure that it has multiple inputs such as multiple HDMI, optical-in, coaxial-in, RCA AV-in, etc. Believe me that you will need these. Do not buy the Philips HTIB. You will regret later. As Baiju suggested above, go for Yamaha-198 or equivalent system that has a proper AVR.

 

[vikrantsp]

7.1 output is not possible on Optical-out. 7.1 output is possible over HDMI only. You must have read it wrong. A Blu-ray player must have HDMI-out - please check carefully - else it is fit to be junked.

If you are buying any HT system, ensure that it has multiple inputs such as multiple HDMI, optical-in, coaxial-in, RCA AV-in, etc. Believe me that you will need these. Do not buy the Philips HTIB. You will regret later. As Baiju suggested above, go for Yamaha-198 or equivalent system that has a proper AVR.

Offcourse it has HDMI (how did I miss that!!! :annoyed
But I was using that port to connect it to the TV....

Should I use a HDMI Splitter then?

 

[just4kix]

After you buy an HT with multi-HDMI In, one HDMI-out, connect as follows:

BDP --(HDMI)--> HT --(HDMI)--> TV