Home Theater Wiring Diagrams Demystified
Hooking up the home theater system is particularly challenging to people who are setting up their first home theater. The typical home theater wiring diagram includes input devices, processing devices, audio output, and video output.
A Basic Home Theater Flow Diagram is Interesting
The home theater wiring diagrams connects the DVD player or the audio system to a receiver which is the processing unit. The processing unit consists of a preamp, surround sound decoder and an amplifier. From the processing unit it leads to the output which is a projection TV, projector and a screen, LCD/DLP/Plasma flat screen. If the input is audio, the output is through the speakers.
Simple home theater wiring diagrams shown a DVD player attached to a TV that does not have any audio/video inputs. In such cases the TV provides the speakers. A little more complex diagram is that of a system without a receiver that has several devices like DVD player and VCT connected to a TV and to a stereo system.
In simple home theater wiring diagrams, the DVD and VCR signals are kept separate because passing the DVD player's signal through the VCR causes the Macrovision copy protection to kick in, ruining the picture. This is what you want if all you are doing is hooking a DVD player up with an older TV set, especially if you are retaining a VCR in the setup.
To setup the home theater system the placement of the surround speakers and how the speakers are all connected back to the receiver is important. The receiver is also going to be outputting video data to the TV in most cases. This means connecting the monitor video output of receiver to the inputs on the TV. Any home theater these days will have a DVD player.
The player may also support DVD-Audio and /or SACD discs and may offer progressive scan or up scaled video output. Getting the home theater wiring diagram properly followed is a crucial step in good video/audio quality. The cable and satellite service connections have to be wired to the receiver through a separate box.
Connection a home theater network can be extremely confusing. With different types of inputs and outputs, cables and wires seem to go everywhere. There are dedicated websites which offer block diagrams to get what to look for and how to connect information. Step-by-step guide books are also available for explaining everything you need to know about hooking up a system.
