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etowneric,
what source is your TV signal coming from? Cable/cable box/sat reciever???????
If you ONLY have a coax cable coming from the wall then do just like hardcandy said. My only suggestion would be to run EVERYTHING through the reciever.
You said you hooked up xbox and DVD player to the reciever ....HOW? then you said you THEN sent the cable throught the DVD player....that sounds very backwards to me. Tell me exactly what cables you ran from where to where.
Well, hell, i'll just lay it all down for you....
It should go something like this.....
Xbox.. from xbox OUT, plug all cables into your reciever.
DVD player... Optical or Digital Coax AUDIO OUT... to optical or digital coax AUDIO IN on the reciever. The "digital coax" is not the same as a regular coax cable like the ones that screw into the back of TVs. If you do not have an Optical or Digital Coax cable then run the red and white RCA cables from the DVD AUDIO OUT to the recievers DVD AUDIO IN. Then your choice of DVD VIDEO OUT from the DVD player to the DVD VIDEO IN on your reciever. This will be either composite (yellow rca cable), S-Video, or component (green, blue, and red cables). To make things simple, use the same type of video cable that you used with the Xbox.
TV.... This will depend on what type of signal you are getting. If you have some type of "cable box or sat. reciever" then from that box run the AUDIO OUT(again this can be either [optical or digital coax] OR analog [red and white RCA cables], to the AUDIO IN on your reciever. Choose one of the digital connections here if you can, they are much better. Now run the VIDEO OUT from the cable/sat box to the VIDEO IN on your reciever. Again if you want to keep it simple choose the same type of connection you used with your DVD and Xbox. This will also be the same type of video cable you run from your MONITOR OUT on your reciever to the VIDEO IN on your TV. If you only want to listen to your surround and stereo speakers then do not run any audio to your TV.
Now if you only have a coax cable running out of your wall and do NOT have any type of cable/sat. box then do this....
Run the coax cable directly to your TV. Run the analog connection from your TV AUDIO OUT{red and white rca cables}, to the TV AUDIO IN on your reciever. That should do it all for you. DO NOT try to run anything back to a VCR or DVD player!
Sorry if I'm babbling on here about things you already know. Just trying to help.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 25. January 2005 @ 08:09
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