Philips Soundbar and Sony Blu-Ray Player - how do I connect? I want to be able to use my Sony Blu-Ray with the newly acquired Philips AmbiSound Home Theater. Goes with a Toshiba 42" 1080 LCD HDTV. How and where do I connect the Blu-Ray?Thank you for any advice. Philips Soundbar and Sony Blu-Ray Player - how do I connect? I want to be able to use my Sony Blu-Ray with the newly acquired Philips AmbiSound Home Theater. Goes with a Toshiba 42" 1080 LCD... » Read More Philips Soundbar and Sony Blu-Ray Player - how do I connect? I want to be able to use my Sony Blu-Ray with the newly acquired Philips AmbiSound Home Theater. Goes with a Toshiba 42" 1080 LCD HDTV. How and where do I connect the Blu-Ray?Thank you for any advice. « Show Less
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I just bought it an can't figure it out, other then to connect the blue ray to the tv, then the tv to the sound bar. I don;t know if this will defeat the soutnd of the blu ray. I may return it and go with the "wired" look.
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I definitely recommend connecting the coaxial to the Philips subwoofer. Once I did that, the sound just literally blew me away!
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Just be happy your soundbar is working. I returned mine - no one at Sharp, after 3 weeks of trying, would believe that my unit lost sound output intermittently. I now have a Sony soundbar that is working well (with my Sharp TV), and I could not be more satisfied.
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It comes with an optical cable which u can use to connect to your HDTV or Blu-ray Player or receiver. I use the optical cable that came with it and connected it directly to my HDTV. I also bought an HDMI cable and hooked it directly to my APPLE TV. You can use HDMI cable or another optical cable if you want to hook/connect your sound bar with multiple devices such as HDTV, DVD players, Apple TV, receivers etc.
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My Sony is older and does not have ARC, but occasionally the command pass through seems to work. Mostly from the (Sony) Blu Ray. Generally it's worth having the HDMI connection, if only to automatically shutdown the Soundbar when the TV is turned off.
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I have a 42" Toshiba (something like that I forgot) and it works just fine. Here are all the inputs that are located in the back of the sound bar: A "Sub Out" that is purple, an "Input 1" which has 2 plugs (one is white and the other is red), the last one is "Input 2" and that one is not color-coded. I use the Input 1 (the red and white) these two turn into one plug at the end that goes into the "Analog Audio Out" on my T.V.
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Blue Tooth is not required to hook up to your TV. Standard Optical IN / OUT connections work fine. This allows synchronization of the Sound Bar with your TV Remote, whereby you utilize your TV Remote to increase the sound as normal, but instead of increasing the volume of the TV Speakers, it does so to the Sound Bar. I used the Sound Bar remote control to make some fine adjustments to the Blue Tooth Sub-Woofer (only needed to do this once). Sound is amazing overall. Highly recommend.
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Which port did u connect to? Coaxial or RCA? If you are using Coaxial then make sure you are using Coaxial Digital Audio cable an not any AV Cable. You can get it cheap from Walmart for 12 buck for a 6 Feet one. Also make sure you Press the Coax button on the Soundbar remote.
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Your blue ray player will be connected to your tv via rca cables (usually)your tv will be connected to the sound bar with the digital cable
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Ok, guys I'm old and new to this stuff, so be pateint... How does a sound bar work. Is it hooked to the TV and instead of the sound coming from the TV it comes out of the sound bar and I'm assuming the sound is much better. Can you contol the sound volume with a Directv remote or the TV remote. Thanks in advance... Mike
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I really don't know how the sound bar is connected. I used my pigtail to connect a DVD recorder and a Blu Ray player to the same HDMI jack. It works fine that way. Of course, I can only use one at a time--either the Blu Ray player or the Recorder/player.
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Sorry for the dumb question, but what is a soundbar? I've never had to put one on a TV - I just have 5.1 surround hooked up to my current TV.
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So the setup I have is my Blu-ray HDMI into my TV and Optical out from my TV to this soundbar. I'm not sure of your setup but you wouldn't connect them separately into the soundbar. Hope that helps
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Simply connect an HDMI cablefrom the "audio/video out" of the cable box or receiver into the appropriate "audio/video in" slot at the back of the Sony sub-woofer. Then connect another HDMI cable from the "audio/video out" from the sub-woofer to the "video in" slot on the HDTV. HDMI supports both picture and sound. There is also a slot for a DVD player on the back of the sub-woofer. Just plug the DVD player video out into this slot using an HDMI cable and nothing else is required. Use high speed HDMI cables when playing Blu-Ray or 3D movies. In fact 3D won't work without them. Simply connect an HDMI cablefrom the "audio/video out" of the cable box or receiver into the appropriate "audio/video in" slot at the back of the Sony sub-woofer. Then connect another HDMI cable from the "audio/video out" from the sub-woofer to the "video in" slot on the HDTV. HDMI supports both picture and sound. There is also a slot for a DVD player on the back of the sub-woofer. Just plug the DVD player video out into this slot using an HDMI cable and nothing else is required. Use high speed HDMI cables when playing Blu-Ray or 3D movies. In... » Read More Simply connect an HDMI cablefrom the "audio/video out" of the cable box or receiver into the appropriate "audio/video in" slot at the back of the Sony sub-woofer. Then connect another HDMI cable from the "audio/video out" from the sub-woofer to the "video in" slot on the HDTV. HDMI supports both picture and sound. There is also a slot for a DVD player on the back of the sub-woofer. Just plug the DVD player video out into this slot using an HDMI cable and nothing else is required. Use high speed HDMI cables when playing Blu-Ray or 3D movies. In fact 3D won't work without them. « Show Less
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I have my TV set up to automatically connect to my soundbar when I turn on the soundbar. Maybe like 2 steps to initially connect the external speaker to the tv.
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One might expect so, both being made by the same manufacturer, but I can tell you this: The soundbar is an analog device, so it will work on a TV that has an output jack for headphones. You can't connect the soundbar to an optical audio jack without a device that converts analog audio to digital. I have two TVs. One (smaller, cheaper) has a headphone jack (analog) the soundbar works fine with. The other TV (bigger, pricier) does not have a headphone jack. I don't know why. Hope this helps.
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It should work. I have a Sony BD player connected to my Insignia TV via HDMI. But since my TV doesn't have an optical out, I used a digital coax cable to connect to the soundbar. Now my TV, blu ray and even Chromecast output to the soundbar. I do not see any reason why an optical cable will not work.
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I am unfamiliar with the particular product you are enquiring about, however: Your TV model has Digital Optical TOSLINK output. Providing your Sound Bar has Digital Optical TOSLINK input I would recommend instead: http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-TOSLINK-Digital-Optical-Switcher/dp/B00G188Z7A/ref=sr_1_9?s=audio-video-accessories&ie=UTF8&qid=1407943737&sr=1-9 (copy this link to your browser) The product is available from Amazon $31.95. You would also need two TOSLINK cables (Optical Digital Audio) - one from your TV to one of the input ports on the ViewHD connector and one from output port of the connector to the Sound Bar. Different lengths are available from Amazon. I have used this connector to link my HDTV, BlueRay player and Cable Box to my Sound Bar. One advantage is that when playing cable music channels and wanting sound only, I can switch sound signals to go direct from cable box to sound bar and leave TV off. This is a very useful connector.