How to connect a home cinema to a blu-ray player ?

IndieKid: How to connect a home cinema to a blu-ray player ?
I have bought a Phillips 6 speaker system with a DVD player combined. I need to reconnect these speakers to a blu-ray player. Altogether there are 2 standing tallboy speakers, 1 large sub woofer, 2 small speakers, and a bar speaker. The Home Cinema system was bought as a whole and need to disconnect it from the DVD player it came with and plug it into a blu-ray play, how can i do this, help please.

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Answer by The Eagle Keeper
First of all, what you have there is commonly called a home theater in a box (HTIB). Phillips along with RCA are the cheapest in terms of quality. Look where it was made & you’ll see why. They assemble these things from the cheapest parts supplier. I can assure you that real soon you’ll be throwing it into the trash. So many people here have said that is what they will end up doing. You want Blu-ray, but the only way to take advantage of it is to run the HDMI cable straight from it to a TV with a 1080p resolution. The only way to hear the Dolby HD & DTS-MA surround is to use a receiver that has that capability. Your HTIB does not.

So this is what you need to do in order to take advantage of Blu-ray.
1. throw your HTIB in the trash or return it if you can.
2. Get a decent receiver like a Yamaha RX-V665
3. Get a set of real speakers like this one:
4. Enjoy quality.
5. Stop being so cheap.

Answer by Erik T
While I may agree with the “Old SOB” below… you still can use a Blu-Ray player with that setup.

Here’s how to do it:

1) Get some cables

You’ll need an optical audio cable, and an HDMI (or Component (RGB)) video cable.

2) Run the Cables

Run the optical audio cable from the “Optical Out” port in the Blu-Ray player to the “Optical In” port in the back of the Philips receiver.

Run the HDMI (or RGB) cable from the back of the Blu-Ray to to TV.

3) Set Up the Components

Unit Settings: You’ll need to turn off the speakers on the TV. Dig around in the onscreen menus to do that.

Then, you’ll need to figure out the input settings for the TV and the Philips receiver. You’ll need to figure out which inputs are for when the DVD is playing, and when the Blu-Ray is playing.

Start a Blu-Ray disc playing, then cycle through the TV’s Input menu until the Blu-Ray is showing video on the screen. Then, cycle through the input settings on the Philips unit until you hear the Blu-Ray’s sound coming through the speakers. When both are working at the same time, congratulations, you’ve succeeded!

Good luck!