Home Theatre

Home Theatre
How do you hook up a home theatre system to your computer or ipod?

Basically, how do you convert the output a home theatre system uses to a 1/4 inch headphone jack

For your computer, it would depend. Assuming you have a 1/8" (3.5mm) headphone jack for your computer/iPod, then all it would require is a cable with a male 1/8" plus and two male RCA jacks. Easily obtainable from any electronics store. If your computer has optical out / coax out, and your home theater supports that, then that's a possible connection too.
For the iPod, there are also docks that you can put your ipod on which will have female rca jacks or maybe coax/optical that you can hook into your home theater system.

Edit: And for that 1/4 jack, that's USUALLY a headphone out, meaning you plug headphones into it, not your iPod. If it is a rare case where it is a 1/4 in, then you can buy a 1/8 to 1/4 converter.

Home Theatre

Why can't I connect the speakers of my SONY home theatre to the Samsung TV using a HD MI cable?

I have connected my SONY home theatre to the Samsung TV using a HD MI cable. When I am playing DVD, I can get the sound output from the home theatre speakers but when I am on TV, the sound from the home theatre speakers is lost. How do I get it back?

Did you buy a inexpensive $299 "system"? These things are glorified DVD players with cheap attached speakers. They play the sound from the DVD player fine, but usually do not have spare inputs.

(sigh)

Look on the back of your 'system'. Does it have a spare optical input? If so - run an optical cable from your TV output to the input on the 'system'.

If the 'system' only has red/white RCA plugs - this is stereo and most TV's cannot send sound to these.

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