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Make your Home A Business And Leisure Hub Home Theater Audio Connections Orange Lines - connect Blu-Ray, HD DVD, Tivo players, laptop computer, desktop computer, home theater PC, (whichever you are using) to your home theater audio components (tuner receiver, pre-amp, amplifier, surround sound decoder) or your home theater in a box to your 6.1 surround sound set of speakers. Just follow the orange lines. Home theater audio connection is made easy by using a Stereo 3.5 mm. TRS (tip-ring-sleeve) or triple contact plug tipped wire connector through the headphone port of your laptop computer, desktop computer or home theater PC and connected to the Left and right audio input ports or Auxilliary ports of your home theater in a box and home theater amplifier component using RCA red and white or red and black connectors. The yellow RCA connector is for video connection. Interconnecting your home theater equipments is quite easy. Just follow the User's Guide and you can set up your equipments with confidence but there's always that "first time feeling". You really can't avoid it. There's that fear of making the wrong connections that eventually may ruin your sets. To overcome that fear just remember the following:
1. Power Connection
There is a standard power port that fits to the AC 110-volt plug of your equipment and there’s no way that you make a mistake of accidentally plugging it to a wrong port.
Danger: To avoid electric shock, don’t carelessly touch the metal tip of the male plug while inserting it to your wall outlet socket. Hold firmly the plastic base of the male plug connector while inserting it to the outlet. That happened to me once!That’s why I’m reminding you . . .
2. S-video, HDMI, VGA
Each has its standard port and there’s no way to interchanging it because they won’t fit.
3. RCA connectors
Just follow the color coding and you won’t miss it. Red-right analogue audio connection White, black or gray-left analogue connection.
4. S/PDIF coaxial cable with RCA jacks or optical fiber (TOSLINK)
Commonly used with digital transmission like DVD players. Again this connector has its standard port and there’s no way of connecting it to a wrong port. It won’t fit.
Note: If you are still not confident in doing it, then ask assistance from the expert but be sure you are around and be a keen observer so that you can do it the next time around. After setting up your Standard or High Definition video conferencing equipments and systems you can now start telecommuting.
Home Theater to Home Theater Connection Linking your home theater to your friends and associates' home theaters is the same as setting up your Standard or High definition video conferencing system. Invite them to link their home theaters to their video conferencing systems in order to start telecommuting. On the lighter side . . . After the hard day’s work of working at home, it’s now time to unwind. You can wine and dine with your business associates and friends who has a home theater that’s also converted into a business and leisure hub. Call them for some video talks, share with them your new downloaded movie, play online poker with them or invite them to join your online birthday party and other family occasions in real time and in audiovisual virtual reality. Other options . . . You can’t stay confined in the four corners of your home theater telecommuting all the time. You may lug around your laptop computer with built-in webcam linked to your staff and continue working in your porch, veranda, in coffee shops, parks, or in any place where you find comfort managing your business from a distance. Wi-Fi video conferencing is becoming popular nowadays. Ibarra Your Guide, Video Conferencing Innovations AudioVisualVirtuality ____________________________________________________________ Page 123 ____________________________________________________________ More from Do It By Yourself Guide See also . . .