gansta187:
Wot u sayin' Rock Man?!! By the way, this reply here (the one that you're reading) is your definitive reply to your original post. All questions answered, no other post needs to be read.
You say you don't have a clue what Blu-ray player to buy. I will tell you: The Pioneer BDP-LX51FD. It is listed as being £400 which would make it bang on budget, however you can actually pick it up for less than £350 so that's good. I can't people no other man dems told you about this player! It is the best budget Blu-ray player that's out there atm. The Panasonic DMP-BD55 is very good, as is the BDP-S550. The less expensive siblings of these two players - the Panasonic DMP-BD55 and the Sony BDP-S350 do not have the multichannel audio outputs necessary for you to get high-def audio into your Yamaha amp. Anyway, forget any Panasonic or Sony player, the Pioneer BDP-LX51FD is just the absolute best player for the money, no contest.
Your tv of choice, the Samsung LE-40A686 is a superb screen. My sister has it and it produces some top high-def images. It doesn't have the quickest response time though, which doesn't matter at all unless you plan on using the telly for hardcore gaming. Otherwise it's no problem whatsoever.
As for speakers, go with the KEF 1005. They are better than the Jamo set that you mention, and I've seen the 5.1 package for £300 (though don't ask me where coz I can't remember). And YES you can get them in 6.1. Well, you can get the 5.1 package, and then buy the other speaker individually. The speakers are sold individually for people like you who want more than five speakers, for either a 6.1 or 7.1 system, or maybe even 10.1 as some people have! Power and impedance is suitable for your Yamaha amp.
As for connections; connect the Pioneer BDP-LX51FD to your amp via the analogue multichannel outputs on the back of the Pioneer to the corresponding multichannel inputs on the back of the Yamaha using analogue phono cables such as the QED Audio 1 - you will need 4 pairs of these. This will pump high-def surround sound from your Pioneer Blu-ray player to the amplifier. If you had a newer amp then you could use an HDMI lead for this, however if you used an HDMI lead to connect your Blu-ray player to your amp, it could only transmit bog-standard Dolby Digital or DTS.
Then you just need standard speaker cables to link up your amp to the KEF speakers, although make sure they're decent speaker cables. Obviously, you still need a conection to pump the Pioneer's lovely pictures into your Samsung tv. For this job, an HDMI such as the QED Qunex will do the job with aplomb.
For the Sky+HD you could connect in one of two ways: 1. Connect the Sky+HD box directly to your tv with an HDMI lead. Then, connect the Sky+HD box to your amp using an optical digital or coaxial digital lead. Or 2. Connect your Sky+HD box to your amp via HDMI and then connect your amp to your tv via another HDMI lead. As Sky+HD doesn't do high-def audio, it doesn't matter that you can't connect it to your amp via multichannel analogue outputs (as the Sky+HD box doesn't have multichannel outputs, and your amp's multichannel inputs will be being used by your shiny new Pioneer Blu-ray player).
Nintendo Wii would benefit from being connected to your amp or tv (it makes no difference whatsoever in this case) via component. This is the highest quality analogue video connection and best connection available on the Wii. As for audio, connect the two-channel stereo outputs to your amp for Dolby Pro-Logic II which is pseudo surround sound.
Whether or not you need a new digital aerial is up to you. You might not need a new digital aerial at all as your current aerial may work fine with the Freeview tuner on your new Samsung. And even if your current aerial does not work, you can watch and record two seperate channels with a Sky+HD or Sky+ box (providing you have your dish upgraded so it has 2 LNBs and two inputs to your digibox), and you can still watch tv with a normal Sky box - so you don't really need your tv's Freeview tuner, and therefore you don't really need an aerial. However, if you do have the aerial then you could potentially record two Sky channels at once on your Sky+HD box, and be watching a Freeview channel at the same time. This could be useful for you. If you are definitely going to have Sky+HD (and your new satellite dish) then having a working digital aerial for Freeview isn't a big priority though, as your Sky+HD box will provide you with lots of telly to watch. As I said you will need your dish altered for Sky+HD as you will need two LNBs and two inputs to your Sky+HD box to be able to watch one channel and record another.
And you are correct in thinking that when you buy a new amplifier, you will be able to plug everything to the mp via HDMI and then have a single HDMI to your tv, which will make everything much more simple. I hope I have been of some help, and good luck man.
You hope you have been of some help, did you say?
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.
You most certainly have.
I now have a much much clearer image in my head on where to go, what to connect ect ect.
Thanks for taking the time to write back in such a detailed manner.
I'm taking it all in.
Cheers dude.
Wot u sayin' Rock Man?!! By the way, this reply here (the one that you're reading) is your definitive reply to your original post. All questions answered, no other post needs to be read.
You say you don't have a clue what Blu-ray player to buy. I will tell you: The Pioneer BDP-LX51FD. It is listed as being £400 which would make it bang on budget, however you can actually pick it up for less than £350 so that's good. I can't people no other man dems told you about this player! It is the best budget Blu-ray player that's out there atm. The Panasonic DMP-BD55 is very good, as is the BDP-S550. The less expensive siblings of these two players - the Panasonic DMP-BD55 and the Sony BDP-S350 do not have the multichannel audio outputs necessary for you to get high-def audio into your Yamaha amp. Anyway, forget any Panasonic or Sony player, the Pioneer BDP-LX51FD is just the absolute best player for the money, no contest.
Your tv of choice, the Samsung LE-40A686 is a superb screen. My sister has it and it produces some top high-def images. It doesn't have the quickest response time though, which doesn't matter at all unless you plan on using the telly for hardcore gaming. Otherwise it's no problem whatsoever.
As for speakers, go with the KEF 1005. They are better than the Jamo set that you mention, and I've seen the 5.1 package for £300 (though don't ask me where coz I can't remember). And YES you can get them in 6.1. Well, you can get the 5.1 package, and then buy the other speaker individually. The speakers are sold individually for people like you who want more than five speakers, for either a 6.1 or 7.1 system, or maybe even 10.1 as some people have! Power and impedance is suitable for your Yamaha amp.
As for connections; connect the Pioneer BDP-LX51FD to your amp via the analogue multichannel outputs on the back of the Pioneer to the corresponding multichannel inputs on the back of the Yamaha using analogue phono cables such as the QED Audio 1 - you will need 4 pairs of these. This will pump high-def surround sound from your Pioneer Blu-ray player to the amplifier. If you had a newer amp then you could use an HDMI lead for this, however if you used an HDMI lead to connect your Blu-ray player to your amp, it could only transmit bog-standard Dolby Digital or DTS.
Then you just need standard speaker cables to link up your amp to the KEF speakers, although make sure they're decent speaker cables. Obviously, you still need a conection to pump the Pioneer's lovely pictures into your Samsung tv. For this job, an HDMI such as the QED Qunex will do the job with aplomb.
For the Sky+HD you could connect in one of two ways: 1. Connect the Sky+HD box directly to your tv with an HDMI lead. Then, connect the Sky+HD box to your amp using an optical digital or coaxial digital lead. Or 2. Connect your Sky+HD box to your amp via HDMI and then connect your amp to your tv via another HDMI lead. As Sky+HD doesn't do high-def audio, it doesn't matter that you can't connect it to your amp via multichannel analogue outputs (as the Sky+HD box doesn't have multichannel outputs, and your amp's multichannel inputs will be being used by your shiny new Pioneer Blu-ray player).
Nintendo Wii would benefit from being connected to your amp or tv (it makes no difference whatsoever in this case) via component. This is the highest quality analogue video connection and best connection available on the Wii. As for audio, connect the two-channel stereo outputs to your amp for Dolby Pro-Logic II which is pseudo surround sound.
Whether or not you need a new digital aerial is up to you. You might not need a new digital aerial at all as your current aerial may work fine with the Freeview tuner on your new Samsung. And even if your current aerial does not work, you can watch and record two seperate channels with a Sky+HD or Sky+ box (providing you have your dish upgraded so it has 2 LNBs and two inputs to your digibox), and you can still watch tv with a normal Sky box - so you don't really need your tv's Freeview tuner, and therefore you don't really need an aerial. However, if you do have the aerial then you could potentially record two Sky channels at once on your Sky+HD box, and be watching a Freeview channel at the same time. This could be useful for you. If you are definitely going to have Sky+HD (and your new satellite dish) then having a working digital aerial for Freeview isn't a big priority though, as your Sky+HD box will provide you with lots of telly to watch. As I said you will need your dish altered for Sky+HD as you will need two LNBs and two inputs to your Sky+HD box to be able to watch one channel and record another.
And you are correct in thinking that when you buy a new amplifier, you will be able to plug everything to the mp via HDMI and then have a single HDMI to your tv, which will make everything much more simple. I hope I have been of some help, and good luck man.
You hope you have been of some help, did you say?
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.
You most certainly have.
I now have a much much clearer image in my head on where to go, what to connect ect ect.
Thanks for taking the time to write back in such a detailed manner.
I'm taking it all in.
Cheers dude.
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