sony surround sound system which one?

Cycrow

for the composite video, you will plug the yellow (video) cable into the back of the TV and the red/white (audio) cables into the amp.

if the amp has component video (Red, Green, Blue cables) then you can buy and adapter for the Wii to use this.

does the DVD player not have any other outputs ?

the main problem with this setup is that you will have to change the channel on both the tv and amp for the various devices, whereas if everything went through the amp you can just leave the tv on the same channel and switch channels on the amp

almillar

Cycrow has it right.
Options with an AV amp -
Amp - HDMI into TV.
Virgin box - HDMI into amp
DVD player - I'd like SCART into TV, plus digital optical into amp (does your DVD have an optical out?)
Wii - composite (that's the yellow plug) plus stereo phono - this can go into the amp too, most have composite inputs, and can 'upscale' and put it into the TV thru HDMI.
If you accept the system above, you need:
1HDMI in
1HDMI out
1 optical in
1 composite in.
Ask the questions NOW BEFORE spending your money ;-)
And one more thing - do NOT buy any cables in Currys!
Richer Sounds' cheapest amp has all the specs above at £100. Feel free to re -use any speakers you have already in the house. The front left and right are the most important ones.
http://www.richersounds.com/product/av-receivers/pioneer/vsx322/pion-vsx322-blk

baron777red

thanks guys, i spoke to richer sounds yesterday and they have new stock of the pioneer HTP072 AV and speaker set coming in next week, so i will go in and ask them about it, in particular about it recoding the video coming from the DVD (because there is no HDMI).thanks

almillar

I just read the manual. It doesn't have a video converter. It suggests connecting from amp to TV with an HDMI cable AND a composite one (yellow).
This would work, allowing you to use the amp to switch between Virgin, DVD and Wii, and outputting the sound.
However, as you've previously been told, composite is significantly worse than SCART. The best solution quality wise is to connect the DVD directly to the TV via SCART. Then you can also connect the DVD to the amp with a digital optical cable, digital coax cable, or stereo phono cables (red & white), in order of quality. If you want the proper discrete digital surround sound, you need optical or coax.

Cycrow

Theres this for the Wii

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wii-HDMI-Converter-WII2HDMI-CONVERTER/dp/B007PY3ZPG

allows you to use HDMI