which cables between TV & Hifi stack?

[papercup]

Hello all,

Just rebuilding the lounge. On the wall was the TV, Pioneer PDP-507 from memory. In the corner of the room was a hi-fi stack consisting of Amp, Freeview HDD Recorder, Blu-ray player, DAB radio and a PC. I could watch TV either on the TV itself, or through the freeview recorder. I never used the TV speakers; everything came through the Amp.

Chased into the wall inbetween were the following cables:

• 1x VGA (D-SUB) cable
• 1x Composite video cable (red, green, blue)
• 1x SCART
• 1x aerial (freeview/TV)
• 2x HDMI
• 1x power (kettle) lead
• 1x optical
• 1x analogue audio (red & white)

At the time, I didn't want to take any chances and find I hadn't run something I might need. In the end, I think I used them all apart from the SCART lead. So I was planning on putting them all into the new wall, apart from that SCART. My thoughts are as follows:

• 1x VGA [for connecting PC and TV]
• 1x Composite video cable [general 'monitor' cable between TV & Amp]
• 1x aerial [TV is an old freeview one, so still needs this]
• 2x HDMI [for between TV & Amp, they both have only two sockets]
• 1x power lead [power for TV]
• 1x optical [for feeding TV audio (when watching freeview on the TV, for instance) back to Amp to come out of speakers]
• 1x analogue audio [why did i run this? same as optical above, but for analogue signals?]

So....have I missed anything? Bear in mind I only want to build this wall once, and I might, in the future, buy a new Amp, or TV, or....anything else.

What else should I run in the wall, between those two places, and what should I maybe have nearby as a socket?

cheers

Andy

[Ultraviolet]

papercup said:

Hello all,

Just rebuilding the lounge. On the wall was the TV, Pioneer PDP-507 from memory. In the corner of the room was a hi-fi stack consisting of Amp, Freeview HDD Recorder, Blu-ray player, DAB radio and a PC. I could watch TV either on the TV itself, or through the freeview recorder. I never used the TV speakers; everything came through the Amp.

Chased into the wall inbetween were the following cables:

• 1x VGA (D-SUB) cable
• 1x Composite video cable (red, green, blue)
• 1x SCART
• 1x aerial (freeview/TV)
• 2x HDMI
• 1x power (kettle) lead
• 1x optical
• 1x analogue audio (red & white)

At the time, I didn't want to take any chances and find I hadn't run something I might need. In the end, I think I used them all apart from the SCART lead. So I was planning on putting them all into the new wall, apart from that SCART. My thoughts are as follows:

• 1x VGA [for connecting PC and TV]
• 1x Composite video cable [general 'monitor' cable between TV & Amp]
• 1x aerial [TV is an old freeview one, so still needs this]
• 2x HDMI [for between TV & Amp, they both have only two sockets]
• 1x power lead [power for TV]
• 1x optical [for feeding TV audio (when watching freeview on the TV, for instance) back to Amp to come out of speakers]
• 1x analogue audio [why did i run this? same as optical above, but for analogue signals?]

So....have I missed anything? Bear in mind I only want to build this wall once, and I might, in the future, buy a new Amp, or TV, or....anything else.

What else should I run in the wall, between those two places, and what should I maybe have nearby as a socket?

cheers

Andy

I would have thought you only need power, Ethernet, coax, hdmi (with ARC) and optical audio (in case you can't get ARC working)

All of the video goes into the amp; the amp connects to the TV withi HDMI. If you have any apps on the TV (such as iplayer), use ARC or the optical cable to take this audio back to the amp..

uV

[pinpon]

Sounds great!

[FlossyThePig]

Get a new PC if you need to connect using VGA. Most new PCs have digital video out, even my Raspberry Pi has an HDMI socket.