Samsung LED connecting Philips Home Cinema

Foggster

HELP!

Purchased a Samsung 5 series LED television. Unfortunately, could not live with the sound quality.

Purchased a Philips HTS2500 home cinema.

Put it all together and voila! Nothing!

The TV is connected to a Freesat box via HDMI, so to watch that I have to "source" HDMI whilst the HT DVD player is connected via "aux" and so I cant choose the same option at the same time (i.e. I lose signal but have sound albeit white noise).

Have a bought a pig in a poke and the fact is, I will have lovely surround sound for DVDs (which I dont watch) or am I being a total idiot and not setting this whole thing up correctly.

Help - I still have the box!!! :rotfl:

penrhyn

I connect the optical output from my Samsung TV to a sound bar, I guess the Philips does not have an optical input.

Foggster

penrhyn wrote: »

I connect the optical output from my Samsung TV to a sound bar, I guess the Philips does not have an optical input.

Sadly it doesnt.

Would appear that I have totally the wrong system for the television. Back it goes!!

scheming_gypsy

It's a DVD home cinema system. What that means is that you can watch DVD's with 5.1 sound; and they very rarely have inputs. what you need is an AV Receiver where you can plug in anything you want, Freeview / TV / PS3 / X-Box / etc