HP BD-2000 Blue-ray disc player setup with Vizio VO370M-C LCD TV?

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Rosie

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I just got a Vizio LCD TV at Costco along with an HP BD-2000 Blue-ray DVD player and I'm having some problems. I have a Pioneer receiver and it doesn't have an HDMI input spot on it so instead I went and got 2 blue, red, and green cables (one to go from the Blue-ray player to the receiver and one to go from the receiver to the TV) and one Optical Digital cable (to go from the Blue-ray player to the receiver) and I'm wondering if I should've gotten 2 Optical Digital cables instead of one to hook up from the receiver to the TV as well? I'm wondering this because I can't get a signal from the Blue-ray on the TV, and the Blue-ray doesn't seem to be doing anything even when there's a disc in it, it just keeps saying "I WIZARD" on the screen of the player. Can someone tell me what I should do? Thanks!
 
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bbt91945

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Return the component cable to the store and get an HDMI cable. Connect the HDMI cable from the blu ray disc player to you tv and connect the optical cable from the tv to your receiver. This will give you better picture of the 1080P versus the 720P and the 5.1 surround sound. Hope this will help you out. HP blu ray disc player is an off brand and they won't last long, you should have gotten the Panasonic 605 which is a much better player. Vizio is also a low grade LCD tv. Go online to Home Theater Magazine and read the reviews on tvs along with the pro and con of Plasma and LCD tvs. Panasonic has a tv in each of the price category of entry level to the high end. While Samsung, Sony and Toshiba (the top brands) does not (April issue). Other brands like LG, Sharp, Sanyo and Vizio (the next four brands) did not even get mentioned. If you read yahoo questions, you will notice that 95% of tv problems are from LCD tvs and 95% of those are off brands. Hope this will help you out.
 
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