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What is a Home Theater System? What cables do you need for a Home Theater System?

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The Home theater systems, also known as Home entertainment systems are electronic devices designed to fully integrate all your entertainment needs. Contained within a convenient, space-saving design, the home theater systems combine an interactive digital cable receiver, a DVD/CD/MP3 player and a audio/video digital receiver with hundreds of watts per channel and an AM/FM stereo receiver.

Usually, the cable-ready home theater systems deliver high performance home entertainment that exceeds the standards of the most demanding electronics enthusiast while offering the convenience of plug 'n' play installation. They also provide the gateway to interactive services such as video-on-demand movies, Internet access, local source information, electronic programming guides, more channels of impulse pay-per-view movies and events and more. The Home Theater Systems give you more control and more choices for better entertainment.

Typically, a home theater system has inputs and outputs for analog and digital audio/video signals. In order to connect your entertainement devices, you will need cables, which sometimes don't come with the home theater box. Please see below some of these inputs and outputs:

Front

(1) composite video / audio input (RCA phono x 3)
(1) SPDIF input (TosLink)
(1) headphones (phone stereo 6.25 mm)

Rear

(3) composite video / audio input (RCA phono x 3)
(1) audio line-in (RCA phono x 2)
(1) SPDIF input (TosLink)
(1) SPDIF input (RCA phono)
(3) S-Video input (4 pin mini-DIN)
(3) composite video / audio output (RCA phono x 3)
(3) S-Video output (4 pin mini-DIN)
(1) 5.1 channel audio line-out (RCA phono x 6)
(1) RF input (F connector)
(5) speakers output (one-touch x 2)
(1) serial (9 pin D-Sub)
(1) RF output (F connector)

The Contents of a home theater system could be:

Receiver / player, S-video cable, video cable, coaxial RF cable, documentation

and a Home Theater specification could be:

 Audio System Components: AV receiver, CD player, DVD player
 Audio System Type: Home theater system
 Coaxial Digital Input: Yes
 Sound Output Mode: Surround Sound
 Optical Digital Input: Yes

As you can see, in order to set up a home theater system, you need the cabling products, such as cable assemblies, cable adapters, switchboxes, etc, at the right lenghts, and of a certain audio/video quality, that suits your needs.