Question:
Bought a Grundig 5.1 home theatre system about 18 months ago, one of the £99 boxing day sale jobbies.
Sound wise the system suits my needs but the player itself is showing it's age in terms of compatability issues. It also has an intermittent fault and grinds to a halt mid movie.
Looking to replace the player but retain the speakers
a) to save money and
b) cos I'm too lazy to re hang and cable new speakers.
Now the cables I have are just twisted ends fitting into the 6 spring clips on the back of the player. I suppose i could solder on some phono plugs but too lazy :)
Any recommendations on a player that can handle a multitude of disks, output 5.1 dolby via above connection and be multiregion capable.
Budget about £100.
The only players with an inbuilt amp also come with speakers !!!
Players with inbuilt decoders would be no use to you because you need an amplifier to drive the speakers (which is in your current home cinema player). If you put phono connectors on the end of your speaker wires you would get no sound by connecting to these DVD players because your speakers are not amplified.
You can get a new home cinema DVD player for £99 from Argos though (Its a Bush model). Just use your existing speakers instead of the ones supplied. Its only just come out with the new catalogue , so full format compatibility list (and multiregion hack) are not yet available.
Okay, thanks.
I suppose another way would be to use the digital sound input on the grundig and find a cheapie player that meets my needs along with digital audio out.
Would that work?
I know it's double the electric bill.
Yep if your Grundig has a digital input then you could indeed connect from the digital output of another DVD player. I didn't know this type of player has a digital input socket though. I thought they usually only have a stereo pair of phonos for input.
One thing to remember is make sure the player you buy has the same type of digital socket as the input on your player.
Some cheap players only have optical output (and others only have coax ).
Sound wise the system suits my needs but the player itself is showing it's age in terms of compatability issues. It also has an intermittent fault and grinds to a halt mid movie.
Looking to replace the player but retain the speakers
a) to save money and
b) cos I'm too lazy to re hang and cable new speakers.
Now the cables I have are just twisted ends fitting into the 6 spring clips on the back of the player. I suppose i could solder on some phono plugs but too lazy :)
Any recommendations on a player that can handle a multitude of disks, output 5.1 dolby via above connection and be multiregion capable.
Budget about £100.
Answers:
The only players with an inbuilt amp also come with speakers !!!
Players with inbuilt decoders would be no use to you because you need an amplifier to drive the speakers (which is in your current home cinema player). If you put phono connectors on the end of your speaker wires you would get no sound by connecting to these DVD players because your speakers are not amplified.
You can get a new home cinema DVD player for £99 from Argos though (Its a Bush model). Just use your existing speakers instead of the ones supplied. Its only just come out with the new catalogue , so full format compatibility list (and multiregion hack) are not yet available.
Answers:
Okay, thanks.
I suppose another way would be to use the digital sound input on the grundig and find a cheapie player that meets my needs along with digital audio out.
Would that work?
I know it's double the electric bill.
Answers:
Yep if your Grundig has a digital input then you could indeed connect from the digital output of another DVD player. I didn't know this type of player has a digital input socket though. I thought they usually only have a stereo pair of phonos for input.
One thing to remember is make sure the player you buy has the same type of digital socket as the input on your player.
Some cheap players only have optical output (and others only have coax ).
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