Re: Cable hookup to DVD Player

In article <p4was3o45kvv.r3vlq89olaok$.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Patty  <patty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I have an older Sony Stereo Receiver.  It has a digital coax cable hookup
>for audio to a DVD player.  I have a question about hooking up the audio
>cables.  If I use a digital coax cable for the DVD player, do I also need
>to connect the L-R RCA cables?  Or is the digital coax cable all I need
to
>get surround sound?  The manuals for both the DVD player and the Receiver
>are not real clear on this. The Sony Receiver is an STR-DB840 with Dolby
>Digital, DTS and Pro-Logic.  The DVD Player is a Sony BDP-S301 Blu-ray
>player.

The digital cable should be sufficient, but hooking the analog ("L-R
RCA") cables should do no harm. Your receiver probably has a switch that
selects the audio source input; you can select the coaxial digital or
analog as you wish.