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Question

AV Set up help

Mar 20, 2017 6:53AM PDT

I just moved into a house with built in speakers but i'm unsure how to hook everything up. The speaker wire connections are in a different room than the TV/Speakers. There are 5 wires coming out of the wall by the TV. 1 coaxial cable, 2 Cat5 enhanced wires, 2 ethernet. The 2 cat5 enhanced cords are cut at the end.

My understanding is the set up would be to have the receiver in one room with the speakers connecting to it, and then have the TV in another room, however with the connections I mentioned above, i don't know how to connect the receiver to the TV.

The TV is an older Sony Bravia. Receiver is a Sony STRDN1070.

Does anyone know how to set this up?

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Clarification Request
Lots of ways to slice/dice this
Mar 20, 2017 8:15AM PDT

FWIW, I have used HDMI over cat5E/6 with varying degrees of success. That would be one way to get the HDMI signal from receiver to (distant) HDTV using the existing cat5E cables in the wall. That said, it could potentially be easier to just locate the devices elsewhere. Something like this might help:

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Extension-Extender-200-Feet-HDMI-EXTC/dp/B001PT1A7C

What would be useful though is knowing more specifics about HDTV (actual model number) and where *all* of the room/cables/connections/types are currently located and plan to be located. Are there cable/sat boxes involved, Blu ray players. Be more detailed than what you have listed above, especially regarding what rooms services enter the home and where the current jacks/ports are located. Even adding info such as 'I don't know where the speaker wires terminate in xxx room' ,etc.

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Set up
Mar 20, 2017 8:28AM PDT

The TV is a Sony Bravia KDL65W5100

The TV is located in our basement mounted on the wall with the 5 connections I mentioned coming out of the wall behind the TV. Those connections come from the unfinished portion of our basement witch is an adjacent room. No cable boxes used, no players, literally just need the receiver set up and connected to the TV. I will have a chromecast connected to the receiver.

in the unfinished portion that's where the speaker wire terminates. That's why i need to have the receiver in that room. Otherwise it'd just be easier to put it all in the same room together.

It does seem like they used an HDMI extension like the one you linked based on the connections.

Thanks for the help

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So you also have separate speaker wires?
Mar 20, 2017 9:52AM PDT

Presumably, 5 speakers wires intended for surround sound(?) Just trying to get 100% of the picture here.

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Yes
Mar 20, 2017 10:16AM PDT

There are actually 7 separate speaker wires. 5 channel surround sound, with 2 speakers in other rooms.

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Re: cables
Mar 20, 2017 7:08AM PDT

Indeed, neither coax not Ethernet (cat5e is Ethernet also) don't look like speaker wires nor as cables to connect a receiver and a TV.

Ask the previous owner (or the architect if it's a new house) about the cables.

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Choices to make here.
Mar 20, 2017 8:03AM PDT

Ask as Kees noted, have an installer come in and rig it up or learn how to ring out wiring and more about wiring. Such skills can't be condensed into one paragraph. That is, I find that unless it's a packaged system with setup instructions, most have to call in an installer.