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Home theater
Posted on 10/9/17 at 9:22 am
Posted on 10/9/17 at 9:22 am
I haven't watched a DVD in years. Threw in The Dark Knight for my son and was amazed at how good it sounded compared to movies from the cable box. It's an old receiver. DVD and cable both connected to receiver with optical cable. Any suggestions on how to improve sound from cable box?
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Posted on 10/9/17 at 9:47 am to tygeray
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I haven't watched a DVD in years.
install plex on a PC and watch your movies in HD?
Posted on 10/9/17 at 10:14 am to CAD703X
Will check into plex. My bigger concern is how do I get the sound quality that my DVD player has to come from my cable box that I always watch?
Posted on 10/9/17 at 1:01 pm to tygeray
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Any suggestions on how to improve sound from cable box?
Make sure cable box is connected to receiver via HDMI and if you have surround, set to 5.1, 7.1 etc...
The quality will not be the same but that will give you the best the cable box is capable of.
This post was edited on 10/9/17 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 10/9/17 at 3:52 pm to SG_Geaux
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Make sure cable box is connected to receiver via HDMI and if you have surround, set to 5.1, 7.
My sound is processed through my receiver. It's a 5.1 setup and whenever I watch movies on blue ray it sounds better than sitting in a movie theater. My wife hates it when I turn it up and the subwoofer has shite rattling in the house. My set up consist of a Direct TV for cable, a PS3 for streaming and watching blue ray movies, an Onkyo receiver to process all video and sound, and Amazon Echo to voice control everything.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 4:09 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
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My set up consist of a Direct TV for cable,
What I mean is make sure it is connected to your receiver via HDMI, and make sure the DirectTV box is configured to send 5.1 to your receiver.
It simply won't sound as good as Blu-Ray regardless. The audio and video on cable/satellite and usually streaming are compressed to save bandwidth.
Your Blu-Ray audio is not compressed so it sounds better.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 4:35 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
How much of a difference is it sound wise blueray vs direct tv?
I'm moving in a couple of months and will be getting a new receiver, but it's so old it doesn't have hdmi! But using optical cable for both there really isn't close as far as quality goes.
I'm moving in a couple of months and will be getting a new receiver, but it's so old it doesn't have hdmi! But using optical cable for both there really isn't close as far as quality goes.
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