Help! 5.1 surround Sound for bedroom

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Hope someone can help. I have just bought my daughter a 37" 1080p Samsung TV and I want to get her 5.1 surround sound. She has a HD cable box and a PS3 for games and blu-ray. I have a Onkyo AV receiver and B&W speakers in lounge but don't want to go to that expense. Does anyone know of a 5.1 out of box solution that can take 2 additional HDMI connections to accomodate the PS3 and HD cable box for HD sound ?

Cheers in anticipation

 

[professorhat]

The Onkyo HTX-22HD could work nicely here - it has onboard decoders for the HD formats so is future proof and you can add the upgrade package to make it 5.1

Is this around the right budget, or are you looking for something cheaper?

 

[Big Aura]

alternatively, something like this Sony set-up might be quite bedroom-friendly (the speakers are the size of [square?!] golf balls). Tech specs are here - it has 3 HDMI inputs, and 3 optical too. It will handle the dolby digital from your HD cable box, and will give you dolby digital from your blu-ray player (but you'll miss out on the HD audio codecs).

 

[Anonymous]

prfessorwhat

Thanks for that a little more tahn I had budgeted for but definetly worth a look....

 

[Anonymous]

Big Aura

Thanks for that another option to look at !

Phil

 

[Liam19]

Big Aura:alternatively, something like this Sony set-up might be quite bedroom-friendly (the speakers are the size of [square?!] golf balls). Tech specs are here - it has 3 HDMI inputs, and 3 optical too. It will handle the dolby digital from your HD cable box, and will give you dolby digital from your blu-ray player (but you'll miss out on the HD audio codecs).

Just an additional note, Phil - you wouldn't be missing out on Blu-ray's uncompressed, HD audio codecs with the Sony system Big Aura mentioned, since it can accept LPCM audio signals over HDMI.

So set your PlayStation 3 to decode to LPCM onboard, and the Sony will accept it and play it back just fine. The Onkyo system Prof mentioned will also do this.

 

[Anonymous]

A mate of mine has just got this - http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/9105284/Sony-HT-SS100-Home-Theatre-Upgrade-Kit/Product.html

As far as I can tell it does all you want and is a tad cheaper although the speakers are a little larger that the one suggested by Big Aura.

On a totally seperate note - how do you rename a web link to something sensible like - this / here / clickety etc ?

 

[professorhat]

If you're using the formatting toolbar, just type the text you want e.g Click, then highlight the word and click the Insert/edit link button (looks like a pic of a chain) and then paste the link into the Link URL box.

 

[Anonymous]

Cheers professor I will give it a go next time.

(after I have sent something between my e-mail accounts to make sure I've got it)

 

[Anonymous]

Soulton

Thanks for that, got the Sony HT SS100 and it's the dogs! Daughter loves it!

Cheers

Phil

 

[Anonymous]

Glad to have been of help.

Now you will just have to put up with High School Musical in surround sound coming through the ceiling !

I must say that my mates does sound good and with 3 HDMI in and 1 out, it is well specced also.

Regards Si.