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connecting blu ray to older receiver

cliff01

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Sep 25, 2016
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I have a new Samsung blu ray player with HDMI, but my receiver has no hdmi inputs. How can I connect the two?
 
Optical is usually the next alternative. You may have to buy an adapter that breaks the audio out of the HDMI stream.
 
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