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A friend has a Bush DVD player with the six phono outs to connect to his Bush Home cinema Speaker kit (the Sub acts as the amp as well). He likes the sound from his speaker set but the dvd player is playing up a bit. Does he have to buy another DVD player with six phono outs so that it will hook up to the cinema kit (it only has the 5.1 inputs - no optical or anything like that)?. Or just one with two phono outs and "downmix" the signal?. I am a bit confused by all of this.
Cheers



If the Bush system does not have an optical or coaxial input, he will need a DVD player with six phonos out.
Two phonos out will give a stereo, or at best, Dolby Pro Logic sound. Not a patch on true 5.1.
That said, a decent set of speakers and a good amp will sound far superior still compared to the Bush set-up.



Ok, cheers for that.



The £49 Yamada player at Amazon.co.uk would be a good buy for him.
It has an inbuilt DD decoder ( so has the 6 phono sound output). It is multiregion and plays all the popular formats without any hacks or niggles ( VCD, SVCD, CDR,CDRW,DVD-R , MP3, JPEGs, Kodak pic CDs etc etc ).
If he got a player without an inbuilt decoder ( i.e just has the 2 stereo phono sound outputs plus digital outputs ). He would only be able to get stereo sound - not even pro-logic.



Thanks for the advice, the Yamada looks good.