I have a surround sound home theater set up a year ago with a new LG 37 (LC7D) and a Yamaha HTR 6060 receiver and a DVD player (also a Yamaha) DV-C6860.
I picked up a new COX Digital cable Box and an trying to figure out how to hook it up (I did not get a Digital Video Recorder so dont need info on that).
I also have a Yamaha remote RAV326 to control it all which isnt the greatest but it works, COX sent a remote that may be better.
Cox also sent a 5 wire cable (3 video and 2 audio in the normal colors or R_B_G video and R_W audio). They also sent two short coax cables.
what is the best way to hook this up to get best sound avoiding TV speakers? The lousy manual only shows how to hook it up using either a direct hookup to the TV or a hookup thru the DVRecorder which I didnt acquire).
Thanks for your help. I wanted to watch some bowl games using HD but so far I struck out making it work.
John
Welcome to FixYa! Do you have the Digital Cable hook up's on the Rear of the Reciever?
The easiest way to proceed is by using RCA cables (the red, white, yellow) to connect the cable box.
Use the Video input panel on the HTR6060, if you watch at the backpanel it should be on the upper right hand corner.
There chose if to use RCA, component or svideo, and connect input from cable box and output to TV.
Refer to page 15 on manual:
HTR-6060
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When you use SIMPLINK function, you have to
connect to the OPTICAL IN 1 jack to enjoy TV
sound to your speaker system.
Basically you need to have the Audio go from TV to receiver and setup receiver to that Input to output surround sound to all speakers.
If you have a cable box or satellite receiver, hook that output into the receivers input and that should work.
My setup is DirectTv HDMI output goes into the LG Home Theater HDMI Input 1, and LG goes HDMI output into the TV HDMI input 1.
so to watch DirectTV, I switch LG Home theater to HDMI Input 1. and TV is on HDMI input 1 (to view LG HDMI output from DriectTV, Blu-Ray, Vudu, etc.)
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Yes, the inputs are on the back of the COX Digital Receiver.
Let me clarify. Both the Cox cable Box and the Yamaha Receiver have inputs on the back.
John
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