When we moved to California, I sold my trusty old Yamaha home theater system, because I knew I was going to transition to HD after the move, and ol' Yama wasn't up to it.
Fast forward five months, and we're still pumping sound through the built-in speakers on the TV. I wanted a nice-sounding system, but didn't want to run speaker wires all over the room. Then I discovered this baby. 3 HDMI inputs, 4 digital audio inputs (3 optical, 1 coax), and one regular RCA analog audio input. Outputs HDMI video to your TV. Less than $300 on Amazon. Sweet.
We just took delivery on Friday, and setting it up was a breeze. I only hit one wrinkle: my mythbox outputs HDMI, but that is a video-only signal (I have a DVI-to-HDMI converter plugged into the box's video card). It doesn't seem possible for the CT100 to receive a video-only HDMI signal and handle audio separately through another input. Fortunately, my TV does allow for this. I cracked the manual and discovered that the advanced audio menu allows you to specify an alternate audio input for any of the HDMI inputs. So, the mythbox HDMI goes directly to an input on the TV, rather than getting routed through the CT100 like the other components. The audio signal is also routed to a TV input, and then sent back down to the CT100 through the TV's digital optical out. So, a bit circuitous, but it works!
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