Our old CRT telly has given up the ghost, so we have ordered a new system.

The new TV arrived first and the 5.1 Bluray Home Cinema is due to arrive this morning!! Both have a range of inputs / outputs (Optical / HDMI / Scart and Line in / out).

However, I have two other bits of kit I need to connect up and I can't work out how or where they should go.

First bit of kit is the Tvonics DTR-Z500 which has an aerial in and out, and a scart in and out.

Second is the Hearing Loop http://www.rnid.org.uk/shop/products/loops/megaloo... which has a single scart socket, two mic inputs and line inputs.

Any help with where and which wires should go where gratefully received.

What 5.1 system do you have? On mine, I have a selector button on the front for cbl/sat (cable/ satellite) and on the back there are inputs (HDMI in my case) which also have cbl/sat written on them, so hopefully one will be a scart.

On my system the Wii, PVR and HTPC all input into the amp, then one HDMI cable goes into the TV. To complicate things further each one has it's own audio connection as well, either optical digital or coax.

We also need to know if your 5.1 handles the picture as well as the sound.

How about some pictures of the front and back?

[Edited on 2/10/10 by Jasper]

Try and use HDMI where possible, Scart is old hat and quality will suffer...

Your audio might be your only problem. HDMI will carry audio and your new TV will have more than one HDMI socket so consider some items going straight into the TV.
Put your Bluray into your amp and then on to your TV.
Some of your kit will need to connect through RCA (yellow/white/red) cables depending on how many HDMI connections your amp has. Another option is SPDIF (Google it) which is optical digital audio.

It's a bit of a minefield without knowing your kit but if you think that best video quality is HDMI, next is RCA then scart. Audio is HDMI/SPDIF, RCA and then scart.

With your megaloop, try a line out from your amp but the megaloop isn't somthing that I am familiar with

hope that hasn't confused you

Steve

if your tv has an optical out connect that to the amp, connect any devices to the tv (pref hdmi then you can get 5.1, 7.1 etc) and it will pass the sound via hdmi though the tv, though the optical and into the amp.

TV and Amp models would be useful, but as a guess:

Connect the TVonics to one of the TV's SCART sockets

Connect the optical output of the TV to an optical input on the amp

Connect the HDMI output from the amp to one of the TV's HDMI inputs

Connect the Hearing loop to the front 2 line outputs of the amp, or to the relevent pair of phono connections on the TV and feed these either into the SCART socket or the line level input.

If you can provide model numbers (U2U if you want, or email me via the Se7ens list), I'll try and put together a better guide.

I've used HDMI straight into TV

Optical (Audio) from TV into Blueray/DVD.

HDMI from PS3 into TV.

This gives good quality from ALL inputs. Turn internal speakers (on TV) OFF.

Sync all Audio to Visual where required (esp. PS3)

SONY 7.1 BR/DVD (1KW), SAMSUNG TV if that helps?

Steve