hdtv, sky hd and home cinema set up - please help - want to impress husband when he returns home!

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I have a Panasonic TH-46PZ85B tv, Sky HD box and an imported Panasonic SA-PT865 home cinema system which has 1 HDMI socket and an optical in socket and wireless rear speakers. I can get the home cinema to play cds and the 2 side speakers work but not the centre one and not the rear wireless ones. Currently the Sky box is attached to the tv via an hdmi lead and I have bought another hdmi lead but don't know whether I need this or an optical cable as I can't listen to the tv through the home cinema at present. There is a Viera link capability but when I switch to the home cinema option, there's no sound. I tried the hdmi lead from the tv into the home cinema system and another from the tv into the Sky box but that didn't work. Please help!

 

[Anonymous]

Connect your Sky HD box to the amp using an optical cable.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that - so leave the HDMI cable between sky and tv and then add optical cable for home cinema to sky. Any particular optical cable you'd recommend?

 

[Anonymous]

Ok, got an optical cable and put that between the sky box and home cinema but it still doesn't work. With a hdmi cable from the tv to the home cinema, I can watch dvds and get the full surround sound but I just can't get Sky sound through the speakers. What am I doing wrong? Currently I have hdmi between tv and home cinema, hdmi between tv and Sky and optical cable between Sky and home cinema.

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Thanks!ÿ

 

[Anonymous]

Are you sure you've got the home cinema input set to receive the optical signal from sky?

 

[Sorreltiger]

.....and the Sky Box set to output sound via the optical cable too.