Comments on: How to get the most out of your HDTV Part 2: Connecting Your HD System http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html Articles about Home Theater Systems, Speakers, Cables, Custom/DIY Installations, etc. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:33:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Your Electronic Warehouse http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-13032 Your Electronic Warehouse Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:34:11 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-13032 Brian, With the <a href="http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/products/bose/acoustimass-16-series-ii.html">Bose Acoustimass 16</a> system you will need to run the wires through the Acoustimass module. I would not recommend running them straight to the receiver. To hook up your monster wire you can use one of our <a href="http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/products/bose/bare-speakerwire-adapter.html">Bose speaker wire adapters</a>. Brian,
With the Bose Acoustimass 16 system you will need to run the wires through the Acoustimass module. I would not recommend running them straight to the receiver. To hook up your monster wire you can use one of our Bose speaker wire adapters.

]]> By: Brian http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-12679 Brian Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:10:16 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-12679 I recently purchased an acoustimass 16 series II system. Bose advises not to hook the speakers up directly to the receiver, rather to terminate through the acoustimass. I plan on buying a high end receiver from Denon on Yamaha. Should I hook the speakers up directly to my receiver or go through the acoustimass? I have already run my heavy gauge in-wall Monster speaker wire and I didn't know the acoustimass doesn't have a left and right terminal connection for the speaker wire. How can I solve this problem? Thanks for your help. I recently purchased an acoustimass 16 series II system. Bose advises not to hook the speakers up directly to the receiver, rather to terminate through the acoustimass. I plan on buying a high end receiver from Denon on Yamaha. Should I hook the speakers up directly to my receiver or go through the acoustimass? I have already run my heavy gauge in-wall Monster speaker wire and I didn’t know the acoustimass doesn’t have a left and right terminal connection for the speaker wire. How can I solve this problem? Thanks for your help.

]]> By: Your Electronic Warehouse http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-7935 Your Electronic Warehouse Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:45:45 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-7935 Shirley, I think where you are getting confused is your receiver. You probably think that you need two HDMI outputs for the two inputs but that is not the case. When you have two HDMI sources plugged into the inputs, your Receiver will send the TV the one that is in use over the HDMI output and shut the other one off until you decide to use that particular input and vice versa. Here is how you should connect your system, connect your Blu-Ray and your Fios Cable Box to the inputs on your Harmon Kardon Receiver. Once you have done that plug one end of an HDMI cable into the receivers output and the other to your TVs HDMI input and your done. Like I said earlier you only need the one connection from the receiver to the TV to use both the Blu Ray and Cable Boxes signals. Hope this helped. If you need additional HDMI cables here is a link to our <a href="http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/c/hdmi-cable">HDMI cables</a> section. Shirley,
I think where you are getting confused is your receiver. You probably think that you need two HDMI outputs for the two inputs but that is not the case. When you have two HDMI sources plugged into the inputs, your Receiver will send the TV the one that is in use over the HDMI output and shut the other one off until you decide to use that particular input and vice versa. Here is how you should connect your system, connect your Blu-Ray and your Fios Cable Box to the inputs on your Harmon Kardon Receiver. Once you have done that plug one end of an HDMI cable into the receivers output and the other to your TVs HDMI input and your done. Like I said earlier you only need the one connection from the receiver to the TV to use both the Blu Ray and Cable Boxes signals. Hope this helped. If you need additional HDMI cables here is a link to our HDMI cables section.

]]> By: ShirleyThomas http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-7925 ShirleyThomas Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:52:04 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-7925 First I have to say this is a great site. Thanks for explaining all these stuff. But I have some questions. If u can, please help me out. I have a Sony 52" xbr5( it has 2 HDMI input and 1 HDMI output),Harmon Kardon cp 65 ( has 2 HDMI input and 1 HDMI output), Sony BDP S500 Blue Ray player (1 HDMI output) and a Fios HD Cable Box(1 HDMI output). Can I hook my bule ray player and my cable box directely to TV's HDMI input and then TV's HDMI output to Harmon Kardon reciever's HDMI input? I am so confused now. Pls help me.... Shirley First I have to say this is a great site. Thanks for explaining all these stuff. But I have some questions. If u can, please help me out. I have a Sony 52″ xbr5( it has 2 HDMI input and 1 HDMI output),Harmon Kardon cp 65 ( has 2 HDMI input and 1 HDMI output), Sony BDP S500 Blue Ray player (1 HDMI output) and a Fios HD Cable Box(1 HDMI output). Can I hook my bule ray player and my cable box directely to TV’s HDMI input and then TV’s HDMI output to Harmon Kardon reciever’s HDMI input? I am so confused now. Pls help me….
Shirley

]]> By: Your Electronic Warehouse http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6765 Your Electronic Warehouse Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:58:53 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6765 Joe, You wont loose signal quality if you use the right cable. Many people believe that all HDMI cables are the same because they all pass a digital signal. That is not true, I will tell you right now that if you go the cheap route there is no way you will get a quality signal or possibly any signal at all with that far of a distance. Distance is probably the most important factor in HDMI signal quality so you need to choose a good cable. Monster Cable makes the best HDMI cables in the industry and can easily pass a 35 foot signal. They also make HDMI cables specific to in-wall installations which I imagine is what you will be doing at that distance. For you I would suggest the Monster MC 1000 HDMI cable for a few reasons. First of all it is CL2 rated which means it is able to be run in wall. Second it is guaranteed for life to pass the highest possible HDMI bandwidth so you will never have to switch it out when technology changes. Is it more expensive than other 35 foot HDMI cables, yes but its quality and performance is unmatched. We do sell it in 35 feet, here is a link to the <a href="http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/products/monster/mc-1000hd-ultra-high-speed.html">Monster MC1000 HDMI</a> cable product page if you are interested. Joe,
You wont loose signal quality if you use the right cable. Many people believe that all HDMI cables are the same because they all pass a digital signal. That is not true, I will tell you right now that if you go the cheap route there is no way you will get a quality signal or possibly any signal at all with that far of a distance. Distance is probably the most important factor in HDMI signal quality so you need to choose a good cable. Monster Cable makes the best HDMI cables in the industry and can easily pass a 35 foot signal. They also make HDMI cables specific to in-wall installations which I imagine is what you will be doing at that distance. For you I would suggest the Monster MC 1000 HDMI cable for a few reasons. First of all it is CL2 rated which means it is able to be run in wall. Second it is guaranteed for life to pass the highest possible HDMI bandwidth so you will never have to switch it out when technology changes. Is it more expensive than other 35 foot HDMI cables, yes but its quality and performance is unmatched. We do sell it in 35 feet, here is a link to the Monster MC1000 HDMI cable product page if you are interested.

]]> By: Joe http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6755 Joe Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:55:37 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6755 I would like to connect my TV about 35' from the receiver with an HDMI cable. Will I loose signal quality by connecting it so far. I would like to connect my TV about 35′ from the receiver with an HDMI cable. Will I loose signal quality by connecting it so far.

]]> By: Your Electronic Warehouse http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6541 Your Electronic Warehouse Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:33:58 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6541 Dick, I don't know what kind of DVD player you have but I think I know what your problem is. You need to look on the DVD players settings or menu to see if you have to manually switch the output to component video. Many DVD players have this, it could also be a switch on the back of your DVD player but again I don't know what kind you have so I couldn't tell you where it is. You need to do some exploring to try and find something that allows you to switch your output to component video. The reason it is showing a pink picture is that it thinks you still are connected with composite or S-video. If you can't read the screen when its pink, connect with composite video just so you can see, switch your output on the menu to component video then turn it off and connect with component video. Hope this works out for you. Dick,
I don’t know what kind of DVD player you have but I think I know what your problem is. You need to look on the DVD players settings or menu to see if you have to manually switch the output to component video. Many DVD players have this, it could also be a switch on the back of your DVD player but again I don’t know what kind you have so I couldn’t tell you where it is. You need to do some exploring to try and find something that allows you to switch your output to component video. The reason it is showing a pink picture is that it thinks you still are connected with composite or S-video. If you can’t read the screen when its pink, connect with composite video just so you can see, switch your output on the menu to component video then turn it off and connect with component video. Hope this works out for you.

]]> By: Dick http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6505 Dick Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:28:12 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-6505 When I hooked up my DVD player(not HD) to my new 50 inch Panasonic TV using component cables, the picture was a purple/pink color when playing a DVD. What causes this? Do I need different cables? Thanks. When I hooked up my DVD player(not HD) to my new 50 inch Panasonic TV using component cables, the picture was a purple/pink color when playing a DVD. What causes this? Do I need different cables? Thanks.

]]> By: Your Electronic Warehouse http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-5747 Your Electronic Warehouse Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:30:12 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-5747 Rick, You are in luck. We just got Monster Cable's new HDMI switcher a few weeks ago. It is considerably smaller than a cable box and will give you an excellent HD signal. Here is a <a href="http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/products/monster/hdmi-swc-x3.html">link</a> to the product page. We don't have anything like this for component video. Rick,
You are in luck. We just got Monster Cable’s new HDMI switcher a few weeks ago. It is considerably smaller than a cable box and will give you an excellent HD signal. Here is a link to the product page. We don’t have anything like this for component video.

]]> By: Rick http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-5733 Rick Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:26:04 +0000 http://www.4electronicwarehouse.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-hdtv-part-2-connecting-your-hd-system.html#comment-5733 My Sony 42" LCD is mounted on a half-wall in the middle of our living room. We have a pre-installed cable tube running from that half wall back, through the floor, to the corner where all the audio and visual equipment is located. Here's the issue. Rather than run lots of cables through the tube in the floor/walls, I'd like to have a switch on the corner shelf, that selects from either the Comcast Cable box, or from the Sony DVD player, and send the signal through one cable, either HDMI or component. So far, the only switches I've seen are as big as the Comcast digital box itself. Have you seen a small switch for HDMI cables? For Component cables? Thanks! Rick My Sony 42″ LCD is mounted on a half-wall in the middle of our living room. We have a pre-installed cable tube running from that half wall back, through the floor, to the corner where all the audio and visual equipment is located. Here’s the issue. Rather than run lots of cables through the tube in the floor/walls, I’d like
to have a switch on the corner shelf, that selects from either the Comcast Cable box, or from the Sony DVD player, and send the signal through one cable, either HDMI or component. So far, the only switches I’ve seen are as big as the Comcast digital box itself. Have you seen a small switch for HDMI cables? For Component cables?
Thanks!

Rick

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