Getting your first home audio system? Read this.

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MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

I am putting together my first home theater and, while I am much less lost than I was a week ago, I still want to make sure that I am doing this right. Before I go buy the components, my connections are basically going to be

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Media PC
	   \		 - TV
Xbox	   -- Receiver -<
	   /             - Speakers
Cable box

With everything (but the speakers) being connected through HDMI, is that the gist of it? I feel so worthless on this and didn't even know HDMI carried audio until a few days ago, but is this basically the configuration I want to run?

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 21:21

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MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

That makes me feel a lot better - thanks. I'm not even being cute when I say that until a few days ago, I thought receivers were still just for audio. It took me a lot of googling with the question "well what do you connect the bloody video to?" to figure out that it's not 1994 anymore.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 21:33

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Wow, I didn't realize all these home theater in a box setups would be so useless as far as inputs go. 1 HDMI input, yes, because no one has ever owned a video game console.

Suggestions for a <$600, 4 (or more) HDMI input, home theater in a box?

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 23:14

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