Audio Connections for High Definition DVD Players

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TONY RAMIREZ: Hi, my name is Tony Ramirez and this is the high-definition movies and players. Audio connections, so we're talking a lot about the picture quality with the HD DVD, Blu-ray and up-conversion of standard DVDs, but what about the audio? So, of course, these HD DVD and Blu-ray movies have great audio. A lot of them have, let me see what we got here, Dolby Digital HD, of course we have THX certified stuff and so on, DTS. All these-these, some processing's that are going to give you great sounds. So now, what you're going to need with that, of course, is digital audio cables. Now, what we have here, this is an optical cable. This is basically a piece of fiber optics that'll be plugged up from your HD DVD, Blu-ray or up-conversion DVD player into your receiver. I have a Harman Kardon receiver right here that'll decode the signal in to my 5.1, the 7.1, the 8.1 or whatever it is that I actually set up at home. Your other option, which is another digital cable, is your digital coax cable. This is the cable right here. It's usually labeled by an orange sticker of some type. It is brass or gold-plated, and it's actually, it looks a lot like your standard RCA cables, but it's not. It will say, the other word for it is SP/DIF, and then like I said, it's digital coax, usually in orange. This will send the signal, again, from your Blu-ray, HD DVD or up-conversion player into your receiver and then decode your massive HD audio into your 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, whatever you have set up at home. So remember to match your high-definition video, you're going to be wanting high-definition audio and these are the only ways to get it. Optical. Digital coax.

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