When Setting Up Your Home Theater You Must Not Forget About The Sound

You can have the best HDTV on the market and you can have the most current Blu-ray player and an amazing 1000 watt Dolby surround sound system, however if you do not have the correct cables to hook everything up, you end up with hundreds of dollars spent on an extremely expensive standard TV set. For years now, home entertainment systems have been hooked up with component cables, which generally perform great for what they were made for. But they were not meant to be used for a high definition set-up. Component Cables cannot carry enough info over the cables and the connections don't allow for the HD picture and audio to the wires.

You really should use the correct cables; otherwise you are merely throwing away your valuable time and not capitalizing on what your TV can do. A lot of newer devices such as Blu-ray players and game systems and Dolby surround sound systems have HDMI outputs in addition to component outputs. The component connections are present for consumers that have older televisions, but are simply a last measure.

The only way to get a high definition picture and HD sound is to combine the right components and hook everything together with the right cables. If you put all of the pieces of the puzzle together, you will get an entertainment system with spectacular picture and sound.

But if you don't use the right cables then you will have a lot of wasted horsepower under the hood and no place to open it up. So, what you are looking for are HDMI inputs on the television you are buying. The more inputs the TV has, the better. You will need an input for your HD cable or satellite. You will also need an input for the surround sound system and a Blu-ray player. The Blu-ray player gives true HD picture and sound for watching movies at home.

You may possibly need an input for a video game console but certain video games consoles double as a video game machine and a BD player. Once you have all of the components together, it is time to hook everything together. Most components and such do not come with the HDMI cables that you need unless it is the very high end parts. This means that you need to factor the cost of the cables into your budget. These cables are not cheap, ranging anywhere from $20 each to over $100 each.

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