Home Cinema stuff

parahandy

I got a new HD TV recently, and am awaiting delivery of a Blu-Ray player to go with it.

I'm thinking about getting a home cinema kit for the speakers, but all the ones I've seen come with a DVD player which I don't require.

Is it possible just to buy the setup minus the DVD player?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

parahandy wrote: »

Is it possible just to buy the setup minus the DVD player?

You'll have to look at getting a seperate AV receiver with a set of speakers. Somewhere like Richer Sounds may be a start.

Marty_J

parahandy wrote: »

Is it possible just to buy the setup minus the DVD player?

Of course. You want an AV Receiver, such as these.

ETA: beaten again!

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Marty_J wrote: »

Of course. You want an AV Receiver, such as these.

ETA: beaten again!

Great minds and all that. :T

trets77

parahandy wrote: »

I got a new HD TV recently, and am awaiting delivery of a Blu-Ray player to go with it.

I'm thinking about getting a home cinema kit for the speakers, but all the ones I've seen come with a DVD player which I don't require.

Is it possible just to buy the setup minus the DVD player?

you have been looking at one box solutions . now it's time to forget the stuff aimed at little kids , and people who buy there AV equipment at Asda , and explore the world of real home cinema . Real Home Cinema ( for the most part ) is seperates .

like previous posters have advised Richer sounds would be a good place to start .


hooking your new Blu ray up to a modern Amp is a simple HDMI connection.
. make sure Amp has Video switching so you can then feed the picture the Blu ray has sent to the Amp out of the Amp to you HD tv. i doubt if any new amps sold by richer sounds are not able to do this .

Don't spend a fortune on HDMI leads , something that has a decent build quality will do fine . something like this will do fine

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sparta-Elan-Quality-Lifetime-Guarantee/dp/B00109RDXW


i have one of these ( it was freebie with a subscription ) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chord-Silver-Plus-HDMI-Interconnect/dp/B0017HM1AW and i cannot tell any difference to a £10 lead .

Speaker cable is worth spending the extra on . you can get great prices on Ebay . i use this in my £5k system and it is excellent . if you have a long run to the rears then you can cut costs by using a reasonable £1 per Mtr cable . again Ebay is good for this .

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QED-SILVER-ANNIVERSARY-XT-SPEAKER-CABLE-ANY-LENGTH_W0QQitemZ170380393086QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL?hash=item27ab767a7e&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_997wt_1059


if you stretch to some decent plugs for the cable these are what i use

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QED-Screwloc-4mm-Banana-Plugs_W0QQitemZ230373450626QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL?hash=item35a353e382&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QED-Qunex-Screwloc-Universal-Spade-Connectors_W0QQitemZ270312361722QQcmdZViewItem#ht_1601wt_833