Features home theater connectivity

It would seem that connecting a home theater should not cause any difficulties for a modern person. In practice, there may be certain problems with both video and sound. In addition, you need to know what kind of cable should be used in each specific version. How to connect a home theater correctly? There are a few rules.

What is home theater

So, you have purchased a home theater company lg or any other. Most often it includes the following set of equipment:

• receiver;
• DVD player;
• speaker system (most often it is five-channel);
• cable set.

Connecting a home theater is not particularly difficult, you just need to properly connect all the connectors, given the color and letter markings.

Users note that when connected to LG TVs Smart tv home theater sound quality is improved at times. Only in this case it is necessary to use fiber optic cable. The sound is divided into 5 channels, creating a three-dimensional effect comparable to professional systems in cinemas.

TV connection

Connecting a home theater to a TV involves the following steps.

1. First of all, it is necessary study the circuitthat comes with purchased devices. The best option to connect to the TV will be the wiring method that is recommended by the manufacturer. If the scheme is not clear to you or is too complicated, you can rely on the standard version, which is provided below.
2. Identify the connectors present on the back of the TV and receiver. Most modern televisions are equipped with by the entrance HDMI. Outdated devices include a SCART, RGB (component) or S-Video connector. Naturally, the higher quality in terms of pictures is the HDMI connector. But if not, then you can give your preference to RGB.
3. To display the image on the TV screen, it is necessary to connect the “IN” connector located on the TV with the “OUT” of the receiver.In practice, you need to create a pair, such as HDMI OUT - HDMI IN or MONITOR OUT - MONITOR IN. Most often, cables are included in the supplied equipment.
   

4. Next step - audio output on the speakers. We use for this coaxial or optical cable. You can also apply and "tulip" (RCA). The “IN” receiver socket is connected to the “OUT” television input. The best option is sound output by optical cable.
5. Next you need to connect satellite receiver with a speaker system. To do this, on the rear panel of the receiver you need to find the following inscriptions: front (front), center (center), surround (rear speakers), as well as a port for connection subwoofer. Considering the color marking of cables and the designation “plus or minus”, we connect the bare contacts. You can use the threaded or pressure method (in the system there is one of two options).
6. We arrange the speakers in the room. The most common scheme involves the placement of the front speakers from the sides of the TV screen, the central - in the viewing area, and the rear - behind the back of the audience. Subwoofer You can arrange arbitrarily, but the best option would be to place on the floor at the TV screen.
7. We connect the cinema to the network and check the connection by running the movie. Video and sound should be free from interference.

Important! If the TV has no HDMI-connector, then the connection should be made through the "tulips". This is a standard port that is present on all modern devices.

PC connection

Home theater brand lg easy connects to PC. To do this, you can use a special cable, which on the one hand has a “tulip” plug, and on the other - a mini-jack. The connection to the PC is made through the green port as follows.

1. Connect the cable system unit PC and DVD-player. In this scheme, the player is a sound amplifier, because we connect a passive subwoofer with speakers to it.
2. We carry out the configuration of the PC sound card, choosing the optimal sound parameters.
3. At the last stage, the PC video card is adjusted depending on the preferences of the owner.

Connect to the phone

Mobile phones today can act as flash drives: modern gadgets can hold up to 64 GB of information. Thanks to this, many music lovers keep their favorite tracks on the phone.To listen to your saved music, you can use home theater speakers. How to connect a mobile device to it?

To output the sound from the phone to the home theater, you need a wire, which has two tulip sockets at one end and a MiniJack plug at the other end. The first are inserted into the AUX jacks at the cinema, and the second is connected to the headphone input on the phone.

Two tulips on the wire are marked with different colors: white and red. They denote different channels of sound (left and right).

Connecting a home theater to a TV, PC or phone is not difficult. You just need to understand the specifics of the connection, and as a result all the work will take a minimum of your time.