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Author Help with Surround Sound, TV and Xbox 360
vivid white
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Posted: 2006-11-17 22:30
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Right i need abit of help here really.

I have a surround sound system which comprises of sub and 6 speakers the sub has the audio sockets on the back (red and white plugs) and obviously the clips for the audio wire.

My TV (Samsung) has 2 scart sockets and the audio and video sockets (red, white and yellow plugs).

All i want to be able to do is use my surround sound all the time instead of the TV speakers and then when i want to use my 360 also the surround will work for this instantly aswell. I just cant figure out how to wire it up, every way i try doesnt work.

Any advice please i really am stuck.

Thanks James
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Posted: 2006-11-17 22:34
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surely you just get some phono cables ie red and white and plug em in?

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Posted: 2006-11-17 22:38
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i thought it was like that aswel but i plug the 360 in say via scart and then plug the surround sound in via the phono leads but these are like 2 totally different channels?
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Posted: 2006-11-17 22:40
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the video goes into samsung and the audio to the sub, right?
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Posted: 2006-11-17 22:43
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i did plug the 360's video into the TV and the audio into the sub and this worked with the 360 but then when i was just watching normal telly the sound didnt come from the surround sound which i really want it to do.
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Posted: 2006-11-17 22:54
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i did plug the 360's video into the TV and the audio into the sub and this worked with the 360 but then when i was just watching normal telly the sound didnt come from the surround sound which i really want it to do.
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Posted: 2006-11-18 01:14
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Ok correct me if I am wrong but I had a similar setup as you, the Xbox has a digital signal socket which is what I was using, but then I had a decoder for the 5.1 and then the speakers connected to that.

So does you 5.1 system not have a digital input?
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