need help setting up surround sound

[LakeMountD]

Okay so a friend gave me an old school surround sound system. Below are attached pictures of the back of the surround sound system and the back of my upconverting dvd player that runs out to my tv via HDMI cable.

I am trying to figure out how to attach the speakersr to the old receiver, attach the receiver to either my dvd player or my tv via component and make it all work. Can I get a little help here, for some reason this confused the hell out of me haha.

First picture is back of the old school receiver. second pic is my dvd player

 

[dsl]

You need to connect the audio out from your tv to the surround sound audio in.

I am not seeing it but there should be a section on your surround sound that says audio in and that will be where you connect the audio from your dvd and tv

connect the component video out from your dvd to component video in of your tv

The speakers should plug into the middle section of your surround sound output (the one that had FL, FR, sub)

There are a few ways to do this but the pics are too blurry to read

 

[EEmain]

Name and model number for both would be helpful

Edit: Is it me or does the first look like the DVD?

 

[LakeMountD]

Name and model number for both would be helpful

Edit: Is it me or does the first look like the DVD?

The first one is a dvd player but its OLLLDDDD and its not upconverting so it was going to act as the receiver.


The first pic has a space for 5 speakers to plug in + a subwoofer as well as optical s-video and component. my dvd player has hdmi, svideo, optical, component, and the red/white/yellow video cable input. my tv has like 3 a/v slots, a component slot, hdmi, 2 s video lots and vga.

I am just getting confused on what i have to hook where and if it will even work

 

[EEmain]

Lake they are outputs not inputs if I`m not mistaken.

 

[JonesersRX7]

Lake they are outputs not inputs if I`m not mistaken.

Bingo

And why would you want that crumby thing doing any type of processing anyways?

Get a good reciever and take the coax or optical out to it and be happy hearing much much better sound.

 

[JonesersRX7]

and a DVD player isn't a receiver btw... kinda confusing.

I still am curious if you have taken picutures of the same scene with the old and then the new "upconverting" To see if you can tell a difference.

If it's so slim... save yourself a headache and use the old one for audio simplicity sake.

 

[LakeMountD]

and a DVD player isn't a receiver btw... kinda confusing.

I still am curious if you have taken picutures of the same scene with the old and then the new "upconverting" To see if you can tell a difference.

If it's so slim... save yourself a headache and use the old one for audio simplicity sake.

Thats just it. I want to use the old one for audio ONLY. I just don't know how to hook it up to where I can use that for audio but my upconverting one for the actual picture.

 

[JonesersRX7]

I don't think it can happen.... or at least do discrete channels.

I don't believe your old dvd player will do audio processing on the fly/pass through like you want it too.

Please... take a some pictures of still shots/paused scenes ... same time/scene and do a comparison. I think the difference will be minute. Unless your "old" dvd player truely is tired and worn out ... I would still try and use it, return the "upconverting" and if you really want to see a good picture get the Toshiba one if you can't wait for hybrid players or winner in the format war.

This is just my 2cents and would save my time and a couple of headaches over 10% increase in picture clarity - again... if it's truely worth it to you after you have done the analysis then post up on AVSForum.com

- Jonesie

 

[EEmain]

JonesersRX7 is right... it is not a surround system but a DVD capable of outputing 5.1 surround. Not sure if it decodes or just passes the signal along to a 5.1 receiver.


If your feeling friskie it could work... but it involves a drill, a dremel, a soldering iron, schematics for the DVD and a trip to Radio Shack:twisted: