Home Theater Wiring Diagrams Demystified

Hooking up the home theater system is particularly challenging to people who are setting up their first home theater. The typical home theater wiring diagram includes input devices, processing devices, audio output, and video output.

A Basic Home Theater Flow Diagram is Interesting

The home theater wiring diagrams connects the DVD player or the audio system to a receiver which is the processing unit. The processing unit consists of a preamp, surround sound decoder and an amplifier. From the processing unit it leads to the output which is a projection TV, projector and a screen, LCD/DLP/Plasma flat screen. If the input is audio, the output is through the speakers.

Simple home theater wiring diagrams shown a DVD player attached to a TV that does not have any audio/video inputs. In such cases the TV provides the speakers. A little more complex diagram is that of a system without a receiver that has several devices like DVD player and VCT connected to a TV and to a stereo system.

In simple home theater wiring diagrams, the DVD and VCR signals are kept separate because passing the DVD player