How do I hook up my f550 soundbar to both my ps3 and cable box without having to keep switching the HDMI cable from cable box and ps3?
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You can use one HDMI cable and also use the digital audio input on your sound bar. Most cable boxes have the output the ps3 should as well.
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U can connect cable box and ps3 to hdmi ports on tv. Then hdmi arc from tv to soundbar. The soundbar switches automatically between the 2 devices.
370099
Connect your ps4 directly to the soundbar, or connect your tv to the soundbar with an optical audio cable
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In the back all jacks are inputs, you have a HDMI for video and audio, but it is an input. You need and digital output for your soundbar. hope this help you.
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If the cable box and DVD player have Optical Audio outputs, then yes you can. I have 2 game consoles with that output that connect with this splitter and then run to the soundbar. You need to make sure that both devices aren't sending a signal at the same time though. Otherwise your sound will come out distorted and garbled. You can tell this by connecting an optical audio cable to the devices and looking for a red light in the end of the cable.
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what I ended up doing was using a hdmi cable for audio. I have a hdmi cable going from the projector into the receiver. Then a hdmi cable from the receiver to the ps3. I turn the projector screen on by using the receiver remote and a display box for the reiciever comes up on the projector screen to make adjustments. I hear that optical cables work just as good.
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You can connect your sound bar to your p3 of 4...it connects via digital optical cable...but it's better to connect your ps3 to your TV via hdmi and your sound bar to you tv as well via the optical cable
866027
Anything that can be hooked up via HDMI or component cables can be done so. I am planning on using both HDMI inputs (yes, it will have two) for my digital cable box and, of course, the PS3. I'll reserve the component cable input for my iPhone when wanting to view pics, etc.
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If all three devices are connected through HDMI then yes, you can still play games and watch tv in surround sound. Just make sure your HDMI cables support audio return. All you have to do is set the home theatre to the "TV" input. It should automatically feed off of your tv's sound, whether or not its coming from your ps3 or receiver. I do the same at home with this system.
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The best and ideal way to setup your sound bar is with HDMI. The beautiful thing about HDMI is they were designed to deliver a digital handshake, or relay information both ways. Connect your three HDMI supported devices directly to ports HDMI 1, 2 and 3 in the rear of the unit. There is an ARC supported HDMI output you can hook an HDMI cable from the bar to the TV, which will give you video pass-through so you can see the video from your original HDMI source. This port also supports ARC (Audio Return Channel) which, when a v1.4 HDMI cable is hooked from the bar directly to an ARC HDMI input on a television, it will also return the audio from the TV back to the bar. With this setup, you will have to use the input selector on your sound bar's remote (unless you have a Harmony remote) to switch among your different devices.
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i dont know about all that lol i just bought the HDMI cable and plugged 1 end to my dish box and the other end to my TV i dont have surround sound or any of that. I also use this HDMI cable on my ps3, i plug it from my ps3 to my TV and its in 1080p HD
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I would assume you can use the red and white cables and hook them up to the television and go into the audio settings and change it to Av out. That's what I did for my playstation and the audio comes out just fine.
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as far as i know, most cable boxes are the same. here's how to set it up.first connect the soundbar to your TV using the optical cable.then connect the cable box to you TV with the HDMI cable.now in the TV settings, you have to select external speakers instead of the built-in speakers to use the soundbar as your speakers.
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Hi James, Great question and great answers from these folks. Optical would be the likely way as the guys below mention. If you do not have optical in the TV (unlikely) then digital coax would work or you can go directly from the DVD/cable/satellite box with these audio cable to the soundbar. Contact AV-Express for further assistance.
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hook two leads from soundbar into cable box not tv or use RCA splitter and use both tv and soundbar speakers
379843
Use a digital cable to connect the soundbar to your TV - Bingo its works very well . No other cable or connection is required
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I just run the video cables from the wii into the tv and the red and white audio cables from the wii into the soundbar receiver. The official wii cables will let you split the audio and video cables so it's not hard.
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I use RCA cables and it works just fine. Switch back and forth between my TV and PS3.