How do you hook up the PS3 to your surround system?

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#1 --JpR--
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i have my PS3 in my living room and i was wondering how to hook it up to my 5.1 surround sound system..

i watch a lot of movies so yea it will be nice, does it work with games too?

do you use an optical cable or what??

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#2 jimm895
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If the sound system supports HDMI input and output then you could use HDMI. But if it only supports optical then that would be the next best connection. I am using optical with a coaxal converter because my sound system didn't have a optical input and games do sound better than just using the speakers on the TV.
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#3 EvilestDuck
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I use an optical cable from my ps3 to my surround sound system. It change automaticaly when the sound is PLII or DD.
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#4 Dr_Notes
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i justbought mine yesterday. i used an optical cable for the surround (and hdmi for the video).

you just have to tell it in the options to use optical for audioinstead of the hdmi if you're using hdmi (which handles both). it's so great to finally game in 5.1 :-) with stuff happening everywhere.

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#5 --JpR--
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cooll.. so just hook up an optical from my PS3 to the surround sound?

and for the HDMI, do you have the HDMI hook up from the your PS3 to your TV and another HDMI from your TV to your sound system or what?

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#6 NeoSyfte
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Just hook the HDMI directly to the TV and the Optical directly to the surround sound. You can go through the configuration setting to choose HDMI as your video and optical as your audio. That's how I have mine and it works great.
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If the sound system supports HDMI input and output then you could use HDMI. But if it only supports optical then that would be the next best connection. I am using optical with a coaxal converter because my sound system didn't have a optical input and games do sound better than just using the speakers on the TV.jimm895


Optical is better then HDMI for sound.
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#8 rm_fc
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u should connect the sound system to the TV not the ps3. so it would be like this " ps3 to TV, TV to sound system"
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#9 Dr_Notes
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rm_fc:
"ushould connect the sound system to the TV not the ps3. so it would be like this " ps3 to TV, TV to sound system"

but if your tv doesn't have any way of sending 5.1+ outbound... not a good choice.

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#10 hazuki
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u should connect the sound system to the TV not the ps3. so it would be like this " ps3 to TV, TV to sound system"rm_fc

But not all tvs have hdmi output. I'd say if your sound system supports it, its more like this- ps3 to sound receiver, sound receiver to tv. Since hdmi is digital, your really not going to lose out on video.

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#11 locktc
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By optical cable. Strangely the sound system is developed for xbox360. Its called spherex 5.1.

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#12 Robotron92
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i just have HDMI do my picture and optical out from my reciever to my ps3 so i get games, blurays, and dvds all in 5.1 surround sound
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#13 Dawson82
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optical 5.1,hdmi sounds ok butit alldepends on the reciever and speakers
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#14 RocKtheCasbaH
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On my old set up I used to have my PS3 and 360 linked up to a component switcher and from there to the TV with the 2 audio leads going to the amp. Now it's easier as I have a new TV. The PS3 & Sky HD go to the TV by HDMI & the 360 by component. Then the tv audio-out is connected by optical cable to the amp.

The best way for you to do it depends what TV you have i.e. what inputs it has & whether it has audio-out and what other kit you want connected up.

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#15 gah_mak
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I use optical and the sound is great.
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thank you for posting. I don't know why, but I wouldn't have thought of this. It worked as soon as I changed the settings.
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I just use HDMI to my reciever.
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hdmi cable
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#19 lowe0
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Optical is better then HDMI for sound.Liquid-Prince
How so? HDMI does LPCM, so you can skip the encode and decode steps, alleviating both the latency hit and quality loss. On top of that, if you have a slim PS3 you can use HDMI-CEC to control your TV and receiver without picking up the remotes. I push the PS button on my controller, and my TV turns on and sets itself to the right input. One more press on my receiver remote, and it turns on and sets itself to the right input. Best advice would be to get a pair of HDMI 1.3 cables (don't pay more than $10-20 a cable, depending on length - check Amazon or Monoprice), and run one cable from the PS3 to the receiver's HDMI in, then another from the receiver's HDMI out to the TV. That's assuming your receiver does HDMI; if not, you're stuck with optical.
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#20 slvrraven9
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if you use anything other than HDMI (if you have that option available) = fail. other than that...the only other method to get 5.1 is through optical cable (subpar) [QUOTE="--JpR--"]

i have my PS3 in my living room and i was wondering how to hook it up to my 5.1 surround sound system..

i watch a lot of movies so yea it will be nice, does it work with games too?

do you use an optical cable or what??

i have hdmi but i really want to upgrade to 7.1 one day.....God forbid devs actually take advantage of the capabilities more often though. i mean not like its not available and all
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#21 slvrraven9
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THIS....

But not all tvs have hdmi output. I'd say if your sound system supports it, its more like this- ps3 to sound receiver, sound receiver to tv. Since hdmi is digital, your really not going to lose out on video.

hazuki
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u should connect the sound system to the TV not the ps3. so it would be like this " ps3 to TV, TV to sound system"rm_fc
since more tv's are likely to have multi hdmi in's instead of outs besides most recievers nowadays have multi hdmi ins as well for cable/games/pc/etc, much easier on the hookup since its much easier to maneuver a reciever than a tv. besides it just makes more sense.
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#22 slvrraven9
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i just have HDMI do my picture and optical out from my reciever to my ps3 so i get games, blurays, and dvds all in 5.1 surround soundRobotron92
why? i mean why not just use two hdmi's? one from the ps3 to reciever and another from the reciever to the tv?
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#23 Threesixtyci
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Typically, there is no point going from a receiver to a TV. The main goal is to make all sources to go into the receiver to the speakers. You generally don't want bypass wiring either, It just degrades the signal. But with HDMI, bypass is going to be a necessary evil, due to only having a single output for each device. Also, not everyone owns a modern receiver, so HDMI for everything is not always an option. So, it's more of a question of what you have to work with, than anything else.

As for the necessary bypass setup of HDMI... I doubt it matters which you bypass through. Whether the HDMI goes through the reciever first or the HDTV.... But again you're limited to whether or not the HDTV or the reciever has a bypass system in place, so you may not have an option of choosing which way to go.


since more tv's are likely to have multi hdmi in's instead of outs besides most receiver nowadays have multi hdmi ins as well for cable/games/pc/etc, much easier on the hookup since its much easier to maneuver a receiver than a tv. besides it just makes more sense. slvrraven9

Well, it makes more sense to me that a PS3 would be closer to the TV, than to the Receiver. Thus wherever the TV goes, the PS3 goes.... Also, would make a lot more sense to me to have to only deal with one cable from the TV to the Receiver, than have to deal with mulitple cables between the reciever to a PS3/TV combination. But it all depends on where your PS3 is resting at. My PS3 rests under my TV.... Bet your PS3 is in some cabinet with the Reciever. Although.... Receivers do tend to heat up pretty good. If they are sharing the same enclosed space, such a placement wouldn't be a good idea....

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#24 Chet_Won
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i used hdmi cables for mine

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HDMI, best way possible.
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#26 mugwuffin2
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Fiber optic cable is really good, its what I have.I mean from my understanding its using light to send data and last I checked light travels pretty fast. And even though DD is pretty much the gold standard out there, some games use DTS, like Unsharted I mean Uncharted, which is better even though one prbly could not tell the difference. Also make sure not to bend the fiber optic cable.
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[QUOTE="Robotron92"]i just have HDMI do my picture and optical out from my reciever to my ps3 so i get games, blurays, and dvds all in 5.1 surround soundslvrraven9
why? i mean why not just use two hdmi's? one from the ps3 to reciever and another from the reciever to the tv?

Depends on if the receiver takes HDMI, and if the TV can output HDMI. HDMI 1.3 is better than optical because you can play True-HD and DTS-HD, as well as play 7.1 signals but they will only be used with blu-ray movies and not for games ATM. Games just don't use those formats yet. Even then most people couldn't tell the difference between DD5.1 and True-HD anyways even if you had two speaker systems set up right beside each other.
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#28 Chogyam
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optical. Have not gotten around to getting another HDMI, so i can run the PS3 from the AVR... one day.