Bit of help needed :)

[bigpepespunch]

Some of you may have noticed I made a post a while ago, I have purchased a new LG 32" TV with two HDMI ports, I have a home cinema system with 1 HDMI port and a PS3 with one HDMI port, if I connect both items two my TV with seperate HDMI cables and my sky box to my home cinema with a RAC cable, will my PS3 and sky play through my surround sound?
Thanks in advance

[unadkat]

Originally Posted by bigpepespunch

Some of you may have noticed I made a post a while ago, I have purchased a new LG 32" TV with two HDMI ports, I have a home cinema system with 1 HDMI port and a PS3 with one HDMI port, if I connect both items two my TV with seperate HDMI cables and my sky box to my home cinema with a RAC cable, will my PS3 and sky play through my surround sound?
Thanks in advance

Help Needed Big Time.


you failed to read your previous Post!

if I connect both items two my TV with seperate HDMI cables and my sky box to my home cinema with a RAC cable, will my PS3 and sky play through my surround sound?

you need to check how many RCA connectors you have behind that Home cinema system.

Because you have any other device that you planing to connect via RCA to the home cinema then you will be swapping each time. Which am sure you want to avoid doing that.
Unless you get hold of them old EQ.

Otherwise look into getting a digital AMP.

Connecting VIA RCA will only give you Stereo Output and not surround 5.1 etc.

if you connect it via RCA then yes the sound will come out from your Home cinema.

[bigpepespunch]

Yeah sorry about that, im a complete forum noob and couldnt find it. I cant make any sense of it really haha, Does my new tv having an extra HDMI port make it possible to have my ps3 and sky tv playing through surround sound?

[unadkat]

Originally Posted by bigpepespunch

Yeah sorry about that, im a complete forum noob and couldnt find it. I cant make any sense of it really haha, Does my new tv having an extra HDMI port make it possible to have my ps3 and sky tv playing through surround sound?

you need to connect it your Home cinema system in order for the output to come out of your surround sound.

if you don't connect it then it wont work.

HDMI has the ability to carry sound and picture. So if you connected a HDMI to your TV then you will get Surround Sound.. As long as the TV supports that or has extra speaks built in for that.

however if your Home cinema system has HDMI connection. Then HDMI alone can do the job for distributing Surround sound.

If your home cinema system has no HDMI and only has RCA or SPDIF / Optical out then you need to decide which route you want to take.

Taking into consideration do you want stereo or Surround.

@ the same time you need to check the connectors on your PS 3 as well.

Does it have the same connections as my Home cinema ? i.e RCA or Optical.

[bigpepespunch]

Sorry i may not of made myself clear, My home cinema has 1 hdmi port, so does my ps3, and my tv has two hdmi ports, i was to connect both my ps3 and my home cinema to my tv using hdmi cables, i then want to connect sky to my home cinema using RCA cable's, does that sound like my ps3 and sky will play in surround sound? thanks

[unadkat]

Originally Posted by bigpepespunch

Sorry i may not of made myself clear, My home cinema has 1 hdmi port, so does my ps3, and my tv has two hdmi ports, i was to connect both my ps3 and my home cinema to my tv using hdmi cables, i then want to connect sky to my home cinema using RCA cable's, does that sound like my ps3 and sky will play in surround sound? thanks

yes it will but you will need a HDMI splitter mate

because if you connect the Home cinema via HDMI to PS 3 that's fine but when you want to watch a movie you will need to connect it to TV

Which would mean that you would need to keep swapping them around each time. So to avoid that you better of getting a HDMI switch / Splitter or what ever they call it.

You can connect your Sky box via RCA and the sound will come out from the Home cinema system.

[bigpepespunch]

cheers mate, already got a splitter so that will be brilliant thanks. much appreciated

[unadkat]

Originally Posted by bigpepespunch

cheers mate, already got a splitter so that will be brilliant thanks. much appreciated

Don't get your hopes up!

test it first and let me know.