Sunday, September 29, 2013

How do I hook up my Tivo Series 2 to a cable box, blu ray player and flat screen LED TV?

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Pamela P.


I have every cord and cable hooked into all components possible and still no visual on the TV when I press the Tivo button. Help??!!


Answer
Connect the blu-ray player directly to the TV using a HDMI cable.
Connect the cable box directly to the TV using a HDMI cable.

These will be on different inputs on the TV. You may want to change the labels on the TV or make a note of which input is for which. For instance on my TV, video 6 is for the blu-ray player and video 7 is for the satellite box.

Connect the Tivo to the TV. Be sure you use one of the OUTPUT connections. The Tivo supports s-video which will give you better quality picture than the standard yellow/red/white AV cables. However if you don't want to buy another cable, just use the standard ones.

Most cable systems have started using encrypted digital cable. This means if you connect the Cable TV cable to the Tivo, it might not be able to receive anything. Give it a try, and rerun the Setup Guide so the Tivo will download the channel data for your cable system. However you may only get the local stations (e. g. ABC, NBC, PBS...)

For other stations you'll have to connect the Tivo to the cable box using a standard AV cable. Be sure you connect the cable to the Tivo's INPUT. In this setup, the Tivo can only record what the cable box is watching at the time. So if you want it to record an hour long show that's on at 8pm tonight, you'll make a recording to manually record from the AV input, from 8pm to 9pm. You'll need to leave the cable box on the channel you want to record - otherwise Tivo will simply record 60 minutes of whatever channel it happens to be on at the time.

The Tivo may also be able to control the cable box using its IR attachment - check the Tivo manual for details. In this case, the Tivo will be able to change the channel as it normally could with the older TV/cable system.

Setting up surround sound with HDMI or digital optical?




Derryck


Ive got a reciever that is for surround sound. It has 1 hdmi output and 4 hdmi inputs. I have my dvr, blu ray player and xbox all connected to the reciever all using hdmi cords. Then I ahve the reciever connected to the tv with an hdmi. Ok, so I'm getting sound on all my speakers, but I'm not getting specific sounds on the rear speakers. All my speakers are producing the same sounds. Do I need to use a digital optical cord to get a true surround sound? Thanks
@Uncle, That's what i have. An even sound on all speakers. What I'm looking for is shouldn't there be certain sounds such as a door closing or a gun shot that I'll hear only on the back speakers?
@Grumpy Mac, I shouldn't be getting dialouge on rear speakers, right? There is a setting for Pro Logic, PL2 Movie and PL2 music. I've set it to all 3 but still not getting the swirl effect. Maybe I'm still overlooking something.
@NoOne, It's a Yamaha RX-V367



Answer
- Make sure the speakers are hooked/plugged to the receiver correctly.
- Make sure you configure your receiver correctly (put on A or AB I think, adjust hdmi settings, adjust other audio settings like volume, distance and what decoder to use ect).
- Make sure your playing a surround sound encoded audio file, then make sure your outputting that signal from your output device such as dvr, blu-ray, xbox.ect
- You already using the correct cable and cable setup = hdmi from output device to hdmi input on receiver, then hdmi output on receiver to hdmi input on tv. Make sure you configure the tv settings for video.

Real surround sound formats the receiver should be able to decode.
- DTS-HD Master Audio > Dolby TrueHD > DTS > Dolby Digital.

Fake surround sound formats the receiver should be able to decode.
- DTS:Neo 6 > Dolby Pro Logic II.

Other surround sound formats the receiver may be able to decode.
- DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS 96/24, DTS Neo:X, DTS-ES, DTS 70 mm, DTS Connect.
- Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Digital Surround EX, Dolby Digital EX.
- Receiver may have special effect modes like jazz, gaming, matix.ect not really needed.

Remember the A, AB, B modes is useful if you want to use 2, 5.1 or 7.1 or no speakers.
- Should be able to do stereo or surround sound on 5 channel stereo decode mode.

For receiver audio:
- You need a hdmi cable if you have a 8 channels of audio=7.1 surround sound speaker system and you also want to use a hdmi cable if you have a receiver that supports the dolby-true-hd and dts-hd loseless surround sound formats (Supports higher bitrates/sample rates than s/pdif).
- S/pdif coaxial or s/pdif optical cable is only capable of doing up to 6 channels of audio=5.1 surround sound and only capable of doing up to the lossy compression formats such as dts or dolby digital (16, 20, 24 bit depths, 32.0k, 44.1k, 48.0k sample rates).




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