Connecting Sky Box to new TV + receiver

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donthaveacow

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#97666 19-Feb-2012 18:41

Hey guys,

Planning on upgrading the TV and receiver but am a bit unsure with how to connect up SKY to this new equipment. I've got an old Sky Box with a S-video and two RCA audio plugs going directly into a CRT TV atm.

Do I want to plug the SKY Box directly into the new TV? Or into the receiver?

B1GGLZ

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#583579 19-Feb-2012 21:03

Depends a lot on what TV you get.
I have a Sony EX720 and connect the Sky Box (small silver Pace) to the TV via SCART to Component cable for Video (better than SVID ) and the two RCA leads (Red & White) for Audio. The TV then passes the audio to the Receiver/Amp via optical cable. The Pace box unfortunately doesn't have HDMI out which would be better still.
If you were to upgrade to MySky HDi or MySky+ then you would connect Sky to Receiver via HDMI and Receiver to Tv via HDMI.

donthaveacow

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#583603 19-Feb-2012 21:56

Does this sound okay to connect like this:
Sky component out to receiver's component in.
Blu-ray player HDMI out to receiver's HDMI in.

Receiver's component out to TVs component in.
Receiver's HDMI out to TVs HDMI in.

And I would then just be able to switch to the appropriate component source on the receiver and TV to watch Sky and the appropriate HDMI source on the receiver and TV to watch Blu-rays?

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#583633 19-Feb-2012 23:42

Please don't create multiple threads, continue with this one: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=106&topicid=97668