Wired Affordable Entertainment Setups

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Let’s explore where you’d use the differentcables:The Main Television Setup:TVs generally have one or maybe 2 HDMI ports. This is not always sufficient. You need one toconnect to a cable box, if you have cable. So for the other one, you can plug in your DVD player viaa simple HDMI cable. These are two devices that you are less likely to unplug very frequently.Instead of the DVD player, you can also have a gaming console, which is also something that is apart of your permanent setup.The struggle of ports comes when you want all three of these things.But there is quite a simple solution to that. Use the DVI port on your TV to connect to the HDMI porton the DVD player or console with the HDMI to DVI cable. This way both of your HDMI ports remainavailable for the cable box and the third device.Sometimes you may also want to connect your laptop to the TV. Depending on the ports you haveon it, you can pick the cable that connects the devices. Apart from HDMI and DVI, it may be aDisplayPort.2
In all of the above cases, if you want to plug in an external speaker, which you should because TVsdon’t have good speakers, then see if your TV has the HDMI ARC port. If not, the RCA ports will dothe trick.Home Theatre Setup:You might say that this is pretty much the same as a TV setup. But it really isn’t. You go to your TVto watch the news, watch reality TV, shows and movies. but the TV is also something that is on whileyou cook your meals, for children to watch cartoons on and everything in between.A home theatre setup is a serious entertainment space. You specially created a space forentertainment apart from your TV. So this should most certainly have the right equipment. This doesnot mean the equipment has to be expensive.The two main things you need in this setup are a projector and the device you will use to projectthings from.The projector you get will depend on how you are going to place it. You can set it up permanently onthe ceiling or if you don’t want to make such changes to your house, you can simply put it on thetable. The placement will depend on how clear a picture it can project from what distance.If you have an old laptop lying around that you can simply leave plugged in to the projector, it wouldbe the easiest setup. Use this laptop to run DVDs or even stream from the internet. To connect thelaptop and the projector you can use an HDMI cable and you can connect speakers via an AUXwire.3
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