Newbie home theater connection question - please help

[capp325]

Right now, I have my DVD player connected to the TV via HMDI and the TV connected to the receiver via RCA cables. The following may seem as a stupid question to many of you, but keep in mind that I'm a complete noob when it comes to video/audio equipment, so please bear with me if you can. So my question is: with the set up that I have right now, does the TV act as a "pass through", thereby allowing sound output from the DVD player to be processed by the receiver, or does the TV utilize its own internal audio processing circuits and simply use the receiver as a speaker hub?

Also, my receiver has HDMI pass through, but it's only 1080i. I have a 1080p upconverting DVD player and a 1080p TV. If I plug the DVD player into the receiver, does it mean that the 1080p signal will be downgraded to 1080i?

 

[Adameus]

Is the audio connection from your TV to your reciever two rca cables? if so, you're not getting a digital signal from your DVD player to your receiver and therefor you won't get multi-channel sound, just stereo. Your TV will take the digital signal from the HDMI source and convert it to analog, then send that analog signal to your reciever.

I am by no means an expert at this, but have you tried running it through HDMI to the receiver? From what I've heard alot of better TVs have as good if not better upconverting capabilities than DVD players do, so let it run to your receiver via HDMI, to your TV via HDMI, and then let the video signal be converted in the TV itself.

Another option, run through HDMI from your DVD player to your TV for video and run sound directly from your DVD player to your reciever via coaxial digital.

Hope this helps, and hope some of this was accurate.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Right now, I have my DVD player connected to the TV via HMDI and the TV connected to the receiver via RCA cables. The following may seem as a stupid question to many of you, but keep in mind that I'm a complete noob when it comes to video/audio equipment, so please bear with me if you can. So my question is: with the set up that I have right now, does the TV act as a "pass through", thereby allowing sound output from the DVD player to be processed by the receiver, or does the TV utilize its own internal audio processing circuits and simply use the receiver as a speaker hub?

Also, my receiver has HDMI pass through, but it's only 1080i. I have a 1080p upconverting DVD player and a 1080p TV. If I plug the DVD player into the receiver, does it mean that the 1080p signal will be downgraded to 1080i?

I doubt your TV is much of a hub for anything but the basics.
At the minimum, you should send digital audio to the receiver so it can process the digital audio on on a DVD.
If the receiver will only pass 1080i, then your 1080p would not pass and best to send it directly to the TV. With the digital audio to the receiver, you will have a great surround sound experience.
The analog audio to the receiver will help TV channels being sent to your larger speakers and some could be processed with ProLogic II, etc. for surround sound. Or, for some channels, just use the TV speakers