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getmore4less

It really is a good idea to think ahead when upgrading anything.

Especially if you start to route sound and video.

Where will you need to switch each with multiple sources.

almillar

Some people are intimidated by the thought of building a proper system and getting it wrong, and go for all in one stuff - don't. Richer Sounds do packages of separates too like these - great way to get started. You need to add speaker cable of course but they can advise. MEASURE UP FIRST!
http://www.richersounds.com/products/home-cinema/home-cinema-separates/home-cinema-systems

fred246

I bought one of their home cinema separates bundle deals. Very impressed. Good discount over buying them separately. 5 year warranty for 10% of purchase price. Refunded if not used. Bought fisual flat speaker cable for rears. Some people shocked at price I pay but I will probably still have same speakers in 30 years time. Sounds fab-I wouldn't like to be a neighbour of someone with one of these systems in semi or terrace.

Quiet_Spark

fred246 wrote: »

5 year warranty for 10% of purchase price. Refunded if not used.

The refund is not automatic, you need to apply for it after the warranty expires. There is a time limit for applications but I can't remember off the top of my head whether it's 30 days or 3 months.

If you don't apply in time then you don't get the refund

InsideInsurance

AnthonyUK wrote: »

Are you wrong in the head? you link the Sky+HD/Freeview HD/Freesat HD box and Blu-Ray player via digital optical connection to the AV amplifier and hook the visual side of your Sky+HD box and Blu-Ray player to your flatscreener via HDMI connectors. On an all-in-one Blu-Ray 5.1 system you connect your Sky+HD box/Freeview HDbox/Freesat HD box via optical digital out to the optical digital in on the Blu-Ray system and switch on DPLII movie mode for reproduction of non 5.1 broadcast material

So in other words the same way you would do an AVR? So you were just spewing noise when you were saying separates are much worse than an all in one because you have to hook up the speakers and the Sky+ box etc etc

In fact AVR makes it easier, with the exception of Sky+HD, as rather than needing a HDMI to the TV and an optical to the all in one from your FreeviewHD box you just have the HDMI into the AVR. You then dont have a rats nest of cables going into your TV from your Freeview HD, Xbox, PS4, BluRay and Apple TV but instead just one single HDMI from the TV which if ARC capable will even allow sounds from the TVs build in tuners to come out the home cinema system. If you want to wall mount your TV as is increasingly popular, a single HDMI is much easier to conceal than half a dozen