Surround sound help.

[EDM95]

I have a 1000w phillips home theater system HTS3372D also I have a Magnavox bluray player with out surround, now my question is can I hook up the home theater system to my bluray player? How would I hook up the wires if this could be done?

 

[lobanw]

Free bump to this question, I would like to know the answer as well.

 

[EDM95]

I think I am going to buy a hdmi cable and hook it up from the dvd player with surround to the blu-ray and it should work.

 

[TLS Guy]

I think I am going to buy a hdmi cable and hook it up from the dvd player with surround to the blu-ray and it should work.

Don't that will not work. The HDMI socket is an output for TV connection.

Your unit has NO HDMI inputs, but up converts to an HDMI output.

Your unit is a very nasty HTIB indeed.

The only way you can connect a Blue Ray player is to connect the HDMI output or component output of your of your Blue Ray player to your TV. Your Philips unit has no high quality TV inputs.

To get sound you must connect an optical output or RCA digital output from your Blue Ray player to the optical or RCA digital input of the Philips unit.

You must select the input you use in the set up menu.

Now you will only get Dolby Digital 5.1. Your unit has no DTS codecs. Most Blue Rays are DTS encoded and not Dolby now. The reason is that DTS and DTS master encode can run in the same stream with DTS 5.1 as the core.

Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby True HD have to have separate tracks. So studios are moving away from Dolby Digital/Dolby True HD in favor of DTS master HD which has backward compatibility with DTS 5.1.

So you can not play Blue Rays that are not Dolby encoded.

You player does not support Dolby True HD only Dolby plx and Dolby Digital 5.1.

This unit is really pretty useless and belongs at the recycling center.

If you want surround sound you need to avoid HTIBs.

You need a decent 5,1 or 7.1 receiver and decent speakers, not these nasty puny satellites and a sub that isn't with a 6.5 inch woofer.

Sorry but that unit of yours is a waste of space and above all the world's precious resources. It should never have seen the light of day. I think that is about the nastiest unit I have run into on these forums.

 

[TLS Guy]

On looking further at your manual, I don't think the processor has any decoder other than the very obsolete fake Dolby Plx 2 surround. I think the surround decoding is actually in the DVD part of the unit, not the central processing part of that unit.

When you hook it up see if you get surround when you output the Blue Ray player to PCM, so the player does the decoding. I doubt you will get any joy if the player outputs bitstream. The dreadful manual is silent about this, so I'm guessing here. The licensing page however only has a Dolby plx logo and no Dolby Digital logos and no DTS logos.

It does say the player handles Dolby Digita 5.1 discsl, and just about all DVDs have Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1 encoding, but that is not true for Blue Ray.

Your manual does not specifically say you can get true surround from an externally connected device. You will have to experiment.

 

[k_lewis]

Sell it and get something better- your options and the output quality will become increasingly challenged with the Phillips unit and Magnavox player. And it is not 1000w no matter what the box says

If you're really into having decent sound and BD playback, and budget is of concern, perhaps look into some of the midline Onkyo receivers and Samsung BD players. You can re-use your phillips speakers for now and upgrade them later, but in the meantime you'll have a serious step up in sound, picture and connection options plus ability to grow out your system.

 

[LAB3]

Sorry but you really do need to upgrade. Fry's has some HD 7.1 AVR on sale for $299.00 in todays newspaper(retail $499.00). I think it is a Harmon Kardon 7.1 HD AVR.
These are usually last years model. New HD Bluray players that go online have come way down in price. Panasonic has some nice models that are not expensive. I am not knocking your system just sayin.... been where you are after divorce . My late dad loved old McIntosh and Klipsch Heritage Speakers when I was young so I have all of Pop's gear and upgraded the AVR, TV etc as I my budget would allow(retired now) I watch a lot Bluray HD now. Pop always said get good speakers(music only) first and build around it.TV NEEDS 5.1 surround Now so keep speakers and look at entry level HD AVR and Bluray player.

 

[Pa Yankee]

Sell it and upgrade to some better stuff.

 

[Slipery99]

It is hard to go forward with the system you have...

 

[EDM95]

Thanks for the help all. I did not want to buy a new surround sound because this is just for our bed room system but I figured out how to hook up the surround from the dvd player to the blu-ray with avi cables. The sound is still the same as when I just use it with the normal dvd player so I guess yes you can hook up surround from a dvd player to blu ray player.