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Is this hook up O.K. ??

by gweedow Jun 5, 2009 5:48AM PDT

I have the Samsung 50a650 plasma, and a samsung 2550 blu-ray player. I just bought a Onkyo 5.1 av receiver ht-r370. I hooked up the blu-ray player as said to in the Onkyo manual. But when I would play a regular dvd and a blu-ray disk, the picture would black out for a few minutes and come back on. Some times I would have to eject and reload the disk and then It may not go to black for a little while or not show a picture at all, but I could here sound.

So before Onkyo tech could write me back, I tryed a different hook up. Do you think the following is O.K. and will not cause any adverse effects to my system or harm??

I changed the hookup to this. HDMI cable from blu-ray player to TV and one optical cable from TV to Onkyo receiver and another optical cable from blu-ray player to Onkyo receiver. The disks play fine now no hissing or anything to show if there is some thing wrong. I'm new to home theater systems. So I hope this is O.K. Thanks, Jim

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