Surround Sound

[BungeeII]

Ah, yes. Salesmen and Monster, the two biggest headaches in shopping for consumer electronics.

It's positively amazing how cheap cables can be had for nowadays.

 

[arrow]

We have two HDMI cables... One was purchased when we got the TV and what I considered to be too much ($15ish for a 3' cable) and the other came with the new cable box (6' cable). They are HDMI cables, in addition there is a TOSLink in on the back of the Samsung and a TOSlink out on the cable box. The confusion came from the "Salesman" who clamiled that the HDMI cable was all that was needed to connect everything together.



Aaron Z

That would be true if your cable box has an hdmi out put as well as the optical. You're better off with the toslink anyway.

 

[aczlan]

Ah, yes. Salesmen and Monster, the two biggest headaches in shopping for consumer electronics.

Ayep, my fault for not checking on this before buying the set... Should have done my homework first.

It's positively amazing how cheap cables can be had for nowadays.

Yes it is, if the other Walmart doesn't have any cables I am going to get a 3' one (because I don't have any need for a longer one) for $4 from Ebay.

Aaron Z

 

[wrangler6831]

I've got the 720 version of that unit w/o the dvd player. All you need is the HDMI cable from the SAT to the Samsung, then HDMI to the television. Remote should have a button for input selection. Mine even recognizes and displays if its SAT or DVD input.



Rich

 

[milkman]

I've got the 720 version of that unit w/o the dvd player. All you need is the HDMI cable from the SAT to the Samsung, then HDMI to the television. Remote should have a button for input selection. Mine even recognizes and displays if its SAT or DVD input. Rich

A ray of sunshine, I have one HDMI cable from my Dish box to the TV, and ordered another cable from Ebay on Friday, I know the set you have is not the same model as mine, but from the link that I provided above that doesn't work, I think that's all I need. Don't remember if I stated it before, but I'm trying to get SS for all the TV programming and not JUST when I'm playing a DVD.

 

[aczlan]

I've got the 720 version of that unit w/o the dvd player. All you need is the HDMI cable from the SAT to the Samsung, then HDMI to the television. Remote should have a button for input selection. Mine even recognizes and displays if its SAT or DVD input.

I dont think that it will work for me, the one we have only has one HDMI port and that is HDMI out.

Aaron Z

 

[milkman]

Well, I got my HDMI cable installed yesterday and the Dish and TV now play through the Samsung SS, but when I put a DVD in my other BlueRay player, the sound only came from the TV. I ordered the Optical cable to connect from the TV to the Samsung SS and hoping that will get me sound from the BlueRay player to the SS, got my fingers crossed. Now the wife wants me to hook it up so we can play from NetFlix through the computer to the TV, ordered more cables. Will it ever end?

 

[dmccarty]

You can also get many of the audio cables from Lowes. I assume HD has them as well. We needed an HDMI cable for XMAS and I just bought it at Lowes.

Later,
Dan

 

[milkman]

Got the Optical cable hooked up, and all is working as long as I can remember which remote buttons to push, also got the RGB cable and stereo cable to hook the laptop to the TV, now I can watch all the Netflix movies that I want, recovering from knee surgery so that will come in handy.

 

[robb01]

You can also get many of the audio cables from Lowes. I assume HD has them as well. We needed an HDMI cable for XMAS and I just bought it at Lowes.

Later,
Dan

thats what i did