Setting up a Home Theatre System with PC

[ryant704]

Hello,

A family member got me a 5.1 surroud system. (Sony BDV-N590).

From reading their is no direct way to use this to my pc then to my monitor? I'm wondering if you could see a way of getting this to work. I had one idea, which is put HDMI from the DVD/Bluray into my PC and possibly swapping inputs on my monitor? Maybe a DVI-D splitter to DVI-D and HDMI?

Thanks,

My Graphics card is a SAPPHIRE HD6850 1GB. Currently use a DVI-D to connect to my monitor.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Per the specs of your Home Theater, you have two HDMI inputs and one HDMI output. The connection should go:

PC HDMI Output --> Home Theater HDMI Input
and
Home Theater HDMI Output --> PC Display DVI-D input via an DVI-D to HDMI cable (just in reverse).

-Wolf sends

 

[ryant704]

Thank you for your reply!

I'm already using the DVI from my PC to my Monitor. I only have one DVI on my graphics card, I have a DP & HDMI slot free. So Would I need to get a DVI splitter so I can input two DVI's?

So I can use this?
http/www.amazon.co.uk/DVI-Male-Female-Splitter-Cable/dp/B000P8DJJQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1419602329&sr=8-6&keywords=one+dvi+to+two+dvi
DVI from monitor, then hdmi to dvi into the other slot of this?
or I could use this
http/www.amazon.co.uk/DVI-D-SPLITTER-CABLE-HDMI-Plated/dp/B002DD1VYG/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1419599976&sr=8-12&keywords=dvi+splitter+to+hdmi+%26+dvi
DVI into monitor and then just pick a normal HDMI cable and input that into it from the HDMI Output on the Theater?

Cheers for your answer

 

[Wolfshadw]

Just to clarify, you want to use:

PC to Monitor Directly
AND
PC to Home Theater to Monitor?

If so, that gets a lot more complicated. What other inputs does your monitor have?

-Wolf sends

 

[ryant704]

Yeah that would be correct but I've always thought of doing.

Home Theater to PC to Monitor, I guess that can't work?

That's the annoying part, my monitor only has DVI-D. I don't actually want to use the Home Theater system (Like Blu-ray/DVD wise) I want to be streaming from my PC, local files, netflix, etc.

 

[ryant704]

Solved it myself, plugged the HDMI into my PC then changed the Home Theater to HDMI 1 and changed my default sound playback and worked fine.

Was really easy...