Bought new home theatre system, don't have a clue? Help!

[Kenny202]

Just got a new Panasonic home theatre. Fairly basic machine, built in DVD.

My idea was everything goes into the Theatre / DVD as a hub and is fed beck to the TV from there.

The gear I have is.....

Panasonic Theatre / DVD......1 HDMI slot, set of Audio in AV red and white One yellow AV video out jack

Samsung LED TV..................2 HDMI slots, set of AV inputs (red, white, yell)

IPM Satellite..........................1 HDMI slot, 1 set of AV out puts (red, white, yell)

The DVD works fine sound everything ok as it is built in to the theatre. I may have the rest set up right? I'm not sure. My thinking was the Satellite would hook up to the Theatre hub with one HDMI cable and then one HDMI cable back to the TV to bring all signals in from satellite and DVD. Therefore I was expecting 2 or 3 HDMI slots on the theatre? (in and out?) Not the case as above and bare in mind I'm an idiot. What I have done to make it work is run a HDMI cable from the TV to the home theatre. Then I have run the satellite HDMI into the TV. To get the Satellite sound I have run a red and white AV lead from the AV output of the satellite to the theatre AV in. So everything working but a lot of mucking around with remotes, changing input signals etc. Am I doing something wrong? Like I said I would have thought the normal would be to bring Satellite to the Theatre by HDMI cable and then another HDMI cable back to the TV. This would of course require 2 HDMI slots on the Theatre system. Help!

[IMHO]

Model numbers?

It will be easier for us to diagnose/advise once we understand exactly what you have.

[Kenny202]

IPM HD Pro Satellite box

Samsung UA48H5141AK TV

Panasonic SC-HX166 Home theatre

[siampolee]

Got kids Kenny say around 10 years old and up?

Set them to work on the system. all new fangled gizmo's that enter into our house are vetted and set by my youngest boy (15 years old)

He or his older brothers never fail.

No kids?

Borrow a friends kids for an hour or so, your problems will be solved.

[Kenny202]

Got kids Kenny say around 10 years old and up?

Set them to work on the system. all new fangled gizmo's that enter into our house are vetted and set by my youngest boy (15 years old)

He or his older brothers never fail.

No kids?

Borrow a friends kids for an hour or so, your problems will be solved.

That all sounds good but I don't have kids and where I live kids don't have shoes let alone hi Tech electronics

[Gsxrnz]

Got kids Kenny say around 10 years old and up?

Set them to work on the system. all new fangled gizmo's that enter into our house are vetted and set by my youngest boy (15 years old)

He or his older brothers never fail.

No kids?

Borrow a friends kids for an hour or so, your problems will be solved.

That all sounds good but I don't have kids and where I live kids don't have shoes let alone hi Tech electronics

I bet every shack house has a 20 foot satellite dish sitting outside it. The kids will know what to do - trust in the Force.

[IMHO]

IPM HD Pro Satellite box

Samsung UA48H5141AK TV

Panasonic SC-HX166 Home theatre

Ok, that's helpful,

Here's what you need to do:

1. Run a HDMI cable from the output of the Panasonic HT system to HDMI1 on the TV

2. Run a HDMI cable from the output of the IPM HD Pro box to HDMI2 on the TV

3. Run a 1/8" (3.5mm) to RCA cable (see image below) from the Audio Out jack on the TV to the AUX input on the Panasonic HT system

That's it - with that setup, when selecting the AUX input on the Panasonic HT system, it will play the audio from whatever is playing on the TV at that time (the IPM box, or the built-in DVB-T2 tuner), When you want to play DVD's it will play the audio from them.

[IMHO]

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Got kids Kenny say around 10 years old and up?

Set them to work on the system. all new fangled gizmo's that enter into our house are vetted and set by my youngest boy (15 years old)

He or his older brothers never fail.

No kids?

Borrow a friends kids for an hour or so, your problems will be solved.

Got kids Kenny say around 10 years old and up?

Set them to work on the system. all new fangled gizmo's that enter into our house are vetted and set by my youngest boy (15 years old)

He or his older brothers never fail.

No kids?

Borrow a friends kids for an hour or so, your problems will be solved.

That all sounds good but I don't have kids and where I live kids don't have shoes let alone hi Tech electronics

I bet every shack house has a 20 foot satellite dish sitting outside it. The kids will know what to do - trust in the Force. alt=rolleyes.gif>

Never mind, the 'kids' on TV can help

[astral]

The problem that I see, is only one hdmi socket on the home theatre box

for connecting it to the TV

That rather limits your options

IMHO has the right idea, and with luck you will not need the audio cable

as the hdmi cable from HTS to TV should work in both directions