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<blockquote data-quote="saurabh." data-source="post: 1564086" data-attributes="member: 42605"><p>@Geekhead83</p><p>Ya I can understand. I also have a DVD player already. But will have to pay for it again. I would like to explain some points here. Being a newbie I didn't know how a HTS works. First I was looking for good 5.1 speakers only. Which would have cost around 5-6k. But after some reading, I came to know that you need to connect 5.1 speakers to a receiver to get the 5.1 channel audio output. If not you will not get 5.1 effect. Also you need to amplify the signal from the source. A DVD/BDP in a HTS has a built in amplifier and a receiver which does this job. If you want to buy a good receiver separately, it would cost you more than the HTS. And i think cheap receivers are not available at this time. So you have to buy HTS if you want 5.1 audio effect. HTS range starts from around 7k. cheapest ones do not have (as of now) digital audio in. Also hdmi port is of older version (1.3). hdmi 1.4 is latest version. It has audio return channel. That means TV sound output signal goes to HTS through the same hdmi cable (tv also must have hdmi 1.4). you dont need separate cable for that. Also some may have usb port but supported formats are very limited. That means you will get 5.1 effect from dvds and other non hd formats through usb. But what if you want to play blu ray movies or HD formats? you may be able to play hd formats through usb port of tv or hd media players but you will not get 5.1 sound effect. For that you will need to give digital sound input to HTS. Which you cannot do unless HTS has digital audio in port. Hence in future you will have to buy new HTS to be able to get that sound effect from blu rays & HD contents. Due to these reasons cheapest ones are not useful in future. So look for at least one digital audio in port on HTS. They are of two types optical & coaxial. Any one of them will do. From what I saw Sony,LG,Samsung do not have HTS with digital audio input in this range. Only Philips has it. Please see the specs of HTS which I have finalized. It has hdmi 1.4, two digital audio in ports, BDP, usb port with HD format support. So I think it is bang for buck. and that is how I zeroed down to this model. Surprisingly other models with digital audio input in nearby range (upto 16k) include DVD player and USB port with limited format support & hdmi 1.3 output. Regarding sound quality, I think you will not get much difference if you pay 3-4k more or less. Sorry for the lengthy post but I thought it would be useful to newbies like me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saurabh., post: 1564086, member: 42605"] @Geekhead83 Ya I can understand. I also have a DVD player already. But will have to pay for it again. I would like to explain some points here. Being a newbie I didn't know how a HTS works. First I was looking for good 5.1 speakers only. Which would have cost around 5-6k. But after some reading, I came to know that you need to connect 5.1 speakers to a receiver to get the 5.1 channel audio output. If not you will not get 5.1 effect. Also you need to amplify the signal from the source. A DVD/BDP in a HTS has a built in amplifier and a receiver which does this job. If you want to buy a good receiver separately, it would cost you more than the HTS. And i think cheap receivers are not available at this time. So you have to buy HTS if you want 5.1 audio effect. HTS range starts from around 7k. cheapest ones do not have (as of now) digital audio in. Also hdmi port is of older version (1.3). hdmi 1.4 is latest version. It has audio return channel. That means TV sound output signal goes to HTS through the same hdmi cable (tv also must have hdmi 1.4). you dont need separate cable for that. Also some may have usb port but supported formats are very limited. That means you will get 5.1 effect from dvds and other non hd formats through usb. But what if you want to play blu ray movies or HD formats? you may be able to play hd formats through usb port of tv or hd media players but you will not get 5.1 sound effect. For that you will need to give digital sound input to HTS. Which you cannot do unless HTS has digital audio in port. Hence in future you will have to buy new HTS to be able to get that sound effect from blu rays & HD contents. Due to these reasons cheapest ones are not useful in future. So look for at least one digital audio in port on HTS. They are of two types optical & coaxial. Any one of them will do. From what I saw Sony,LG,Samsung do not have HTS with digital audio input in this range. Only Philips has it. Please see the specs of HTS which I have finalized. It has hdmi 1.4, two digital audio in ports, BDP, usb port with HD format support. So I think it is bang for buck. and that is how I zeroed down to this model. Surprisingly other models with digital audio input in nearby range (upto 16k) include DVD player and USB port with limited format support & hdmi 1.3 output. Regarding sound quality, I think you will not get much difference if you pay 3-4k more or less. Sorry for the lengthy post but I thought it would be useful to newbies like me. [/QUOTE]
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