Well ,I got the A/V receiver to play music, but...

Go to Best Buy, strike up conversation with a few geeky dudes (or girl), assess who seems to know what they are doing and offer 50 bones to hook it all up right.

not trying to sound mean when I say this and its not mentioned in your thread, but have you looked in the manual. I understand that sometimes the manuals are not the greatest, but at least they do explain how to connect things.

what model receiver ?

There is a website that might be helofu. You enter the model # of your components and it will give you connections for home theatre, Try Googling, or maybe someone out there has the name of the site.

There is a website that might be helpful. You enter the model # of your components and it will give you connections for home theatre, Try Googling, or maybe someone out there has the name of the site.

You need to look at the manuals for your sources. If you are hearing sound from the TV speakers, you must have an audio lead to the TV. The setup for the source usually requires that you specify the type of audio output. An audio lead to your TV may be incompatible with the audio lead to your AVR.

It should be simple, but $60 could help if your frustration threshold is low.

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