5.1 surround sound set up

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OptiEng

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Hi all,

I have a laptop with hdmi connection to my tv which works fine. I am looking for the cheapest and easiest way to connect up my 5.1 surround sound speakers to the tv/laptop.

I current have an amplifier with built in DVD player connected to the tv via SCART connection. The surround sound works fine when a DVD is playing. The amp does not have a hdmi port, I guess if it did I could plug the laptop to the amp via hdmi and then the amp to the tv via hdmi. This way I would get both picture from the laptop to the tv and sound from the laptop to the surround sound speakers.

Is there any easy/ quick way to solve this, thanks.
 
does your stereo have a standard headphone jack? All we do is just plug it straight into the headphone port on the TV. It doesn't have the best sound quality but it works.
 
Thanks for your post, you mean you plug your laptop headphone jack to the amplifier jack? Does that work? Could you please explain in more detail? Thanks for your help.
 
try directly from the stereo to the laptop, to try and get the best sound you can. This may result in different timing between the voice and picture though, so try it first, and if the voice comes through first then try it from the TV.
 
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