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Low-end Question

Setting up a little HT in my daughter's room. Have a small LCD TV with stereo speakers built-in, and an all-in-one HT/DVD to use for source.

Here's the rub - I don't have enough room to do the full 5.1 speaker thing, so I'd like to use the TV's built-in speakers. A few issues/questions:

1. Will stereo w/o sub or center still provide a reasonably ok experience? Don't need anything fancy, but also don't want sounds from the movies to be "missing".

2. the HT receiver has built-in speaker outputs (the cheapy spring-clip type, for L/C/R,Sub,RL,RR), but no L/R channel (RCA-type) audio outputs I can connect to the audio inputs on the TV. Is there any way to connect these two beasts?

Thanks!
joncourage

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Bob, what are you talking about? How is the TV supposed to feed the receiver when he's using the receiver as the source? Jon, if you want to use the TV's speakers it looks like you'll need a regular DVD player w/ RCA outs. DVD players go for as little as $30, so that's the simple/cheap route.

Otherwise get a pair of bookshelf speakers or a mini-monitor/powered sub combo that you can hook up to the all in one player. Pretty much anything you buy should be able to trounce the speakers that are built into the LCD screen.

You won't really miss too much info if you configure the all-in-one to stereo rather then 5.1 surround. Then it will read the 2.0 soundtrack on the DVD rather then the full one.
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