how to connect a BRay Disk player to a normal Home theater System?

[vishnuv]

I have a normal 5.1 channel D.V.D player and home theater speaker system ,I wanted to buy Blue ray Player now Can I connect Blue Ray player with traditional 5.1 Home theater speaker system ,I am posting this question because I heard that there will be a HDMA out put pin for connecting to the Home theater speaker system , If there is no possibility of Above set up is there any adapter set up for connecting a BlueRay player with old model home theater system.
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[Alan]

In short, the answer to your question is: "Yes, provided you buy a player with analog audio outs."

To go from HDMI to analog, the adapters are ludicrously expensive. Don't even bother looking at this time. Since you might as well just buy a new receiver rather than buy such a device.

In selecting a BD player, make sure it has surround analog outputs. Most of them have this, but some don't. You can, for example, run analog RCA cables from the BD player to your receiver and the HDMI to your TV or monitor if it is so equipped. If your monitor or TV has no HDMI but does have DVI, you can also simply use an HDMI to DVI adapter cable. The DVI will not pass any audio, but that's okay since the audio is going through the analog outs.

Since your surround system is older, I assume it is only 5.1 while the new standard is 7.1. Don't worry about this. 7.1 surround is 5.1 surround with extra information for decoding the surround channels into four instead of just two. When you buy a player with analog outs, just don't bother to connect anything to the rear speaker outputs since if your receiver is 5.1, you won't have anywhere to connect them anyway.

If your receiver does not have enough surround analog inputs to add another device, then you can get cheap switch boxes. Unfortunately, nobody makes analog switch boxes with enough connectors to accommodate surround sound. However, since you will need six analog cables, you can get two 3-cable video switch boxes and use them in tandem for your 5.1 surround. If you are in north America, such switch boxes can be ordered cheaply from Amazon. I'm using a set of two switch boxes that allow five cables each, but I got them where I live in Korea and have not been able to find an American supplier for such an item.