Guys,

Need some help...really noob on this...I just bought a home theater cinema and a LCD TV recently. Both of them are connected by HDMI cable. Whenever I played a movie from my receiver (dont know what to call but it cames with the home theater package), I was able to hear pretty nice sound produced by the speakers. How to make the sound also came out from the speaker when I watch any TV programme from my ASTRO?????

Pls advise.

You need to connect sound out from TV to your HTIB (I assume you are using Home Theatre in a Box) using stereo cable (red/white).
Then select AUX on your HTIB receiver and you will be able to listen the astro audio via HT.

or you can connect your astro (audio out) to your HTiB's audio input.

Connect the audio out (red & white cables) from ur astro decoder into ur AVR. When watching Astro oso switch on ur AVR & choose the appropriate input - TV/ Sat/ Cable/ Aux

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thanx guys...i thought by using HDMI I will be able to hear the sound as well from my HT...somebody tell me that if i used HDMI, i need no more additional cable as this cable carries both input (audio + visual)...is it only applicable for movie played by my HTIB??

means i still need to use other cable (white & red)? by the way i tried before connecting this white+red cable from astro decoder to my HT receiver, but nothing happened...

perhaps i missed out the appropriate setting for it...anybody know how its setting?really appreciate ur help guys....hehehehe...

By using HDMI yes you can hear sound also from your HTIB. But yes, it is applicable for movies played from your HTIB only.

But now you're talking about Astro right? Astro is a different source, the video cable (yellow) goes from Astro -> TV. For sound, the white + red cable goes from Astro -> HTIB (but remember which input you used, maybe it is AUX1).

Maybe now you say nothing happened because in your HTIB you haven't selected the correct input. Check where your white + red cable is plugged into and select that - you should be able to hear the sounds from Astro.

This post has been edited by jchong: Apr 11 2009, 12:42 PM

thanx guys for all assistance rendered...

will try first and let u guys know later...

HDMI carry picture and sound from your combo player receiver to TV but for ASTRO you need to get AUX out from TV or Astro receiver to your combo player receiver.

one more thing i would like to ask...

ASTRO decoder using two type of cable if im not mistaken..one is S-Video cable and another one is component cable (white, red & yellow)...both connected to my LCD now..

wat function of s-video cable?is it carries video input to my LCD?? then how about the other 3 cables???

As wat i learned from sifu2's comment above,white and red cable carry audio input, so it means no need to plug the yellow one (yellow carry video input i guess) anymore as I got the s-video connected already? rite or not?

all home teater expert help me pls....

damn, why i bought this complicated things....really make me headache....

This post has been edited by pay3d: Apr 12 2009, 01:26 AM

s-video carry the video signal

the yellow cable (we call it composite) also carry the video signal but combine all the RGB into a single cable, where s-video split the signal into 2-channel hence better color separation.

component are 2 RCA cable carries R, G & B signal each (which ASTRO decoder don't have) and their highest bandwidth can be up to 1080i (without HDCP)

use the s-video for ASTRO and no need the yellow cable, u will only need the red/white for audio.

Yes you are correct. S-video carry video so you no longer need to use the yellow RCA anymore.

** S-video give about 10-15% improvement on picture quality...but u might not able to differenciate it

thanx guys..

u guys really helpful..if i'm around, for sure i will treat u all tea tarik and roti canai...

i love this forum...

Ur HTiB has a HDMI output? If yes then u connect ur Astro (all other source) into the HTiB and HDMI ur HTiB to ur LCD.

What if I buy the western digital HD-TV media player? how should i be connecting to my HTIB, that is currently connected to the LCD-TV? Please advice.

yup, my HTIB got the HDMI output. So this way also can ar???
Any setting on my HTIB or my LCD to allow it works perfectly???

waa....never know so many ways to do this....

Cables are just like a road for your signals. Many different roads can lead to the same place as long as you know how to jalan.

Then in your journey you will learn which road is better because not all roads are the same. So for example like video signal can use composite (yellow) or s-video or component or HDMI - it depends what is available on the source and the display device.

u're rite bro...the road is there and we just need to know where we are heading to..
(waaa..cool statement huh? )

This post has been edited by pay3d: Apr 13 2009, 10:23 PM

if your receiver support upscale 1080P,

the your astro will be FULL HD wannabe,

at least 10-20% better than normal pic.

Yeah, that's one thing I'd like to know - whether Astro signal upscaled to 1080 looks good or not. Because Astro is output via composite or s-video only I think cannot upscale to 1080p, only to 1080i.

of course you can upscale to 1080P, i've tried w/ my former Denon 1909, it's upscaled quite nicely w/ faroudja.

most of mid-low end receiver only support upscale or upconvert using the same connection (HDMI > HDMI, or component > component) and does not support different connection ( composite > HDMI output)

feel the difference between composite and S-Video, absolutely you've got better performance.

next try upscale to 1080P, although it's not look good (since the source only 480i) but slightly better than S-video.