this video will focus on getting a home theater system to communicate with your tv through an
arc cec hdmi cable it is not as straightforward as you would seem i'm using a denon avr s750h
home theater and a tcl tv with built-in ruku to do this but it should be similar to any system
that you own like a yamaha or a different type of tv the arc hdmi is kind of a standard right now
this is mostly about the hdmi connections but you can also
achieve some connection with optical cables but because your system can support arc if you
bought the right system i would try to avoid using the optical cable it does not support c and c
and it runs at a lower communication level and resolution level
you will need cables that support arc and hdmi you would need an hdmi 2.0 cable or higher
for each device that you're using i selected a 4k cable that also supports ethernet because i
wanted higher speed they're usually called premium cables they're pretty expensive at
best buy so don't go to best buy i went to ollies and picked up some for my devices for five dollars
that support hdmi two or higher and then i bought one
monster cable for twelve dollars at ollies that will support the arc c and cec
format and it only cost you 12 dollars and they're 12 foot cables i didn't go with smaller cables
first i have to let you know that you have if you have external devices that you want to connect to
your home theater or denim system that they will most not only they will most likely not work
directly connecting them to your home theater older devices don't support arc or cec and
they will actually stop your your normal devices from working if you try to connect those to your
home theater that's what happened to me i was working on it and i couldn't get anything to work
and it wound up being because i have an xbox and a playstation 3 that i plugged in and it would and
they aren't supported directly now don't worry because i'll show you how you can do that later
um let's get started you can see here i have my denon avr s750h and i have my ruku tv my tcl tv
with ruku built in and i use that for my streaming services like netflix and um hulu and all other
and actually over the air broadcasting like on antenna goes to the home theater as well
so this is his back of the denon the blue ones for hdmi you don't want to use at first you want to
make this as simple as as you can in the beginning this one port in red is the hdmi arc port that is
the one that you connect to your arc port on your tv you should have one port if you have an arc tv
and that's where you want to connect and you only want to connect that one at first
basically we want to see if streaming works first before anything else
and that's how we do it we don't plug anything else into these devices until later on
all right on ruku tv there's a tv input tab and from there you could name all your
hdmi ports like i have xbox on port 1 playstation port 2 wii on port 3.
this is my home theater i call it soundbar even though i don't have a soundbar i call it soundbar
and then you have your antenna and you can name them here on the right
so i would suggest setting up your names on your hdmi ports and make it easier in the future
on the settings system you could see control other devices as cec and that's where we're going next
so on cec devices when you click it you want to make sure e-arc is is checked
and one touch play is checked i really don't see a need for system standby what it does is
put both system into standby mode when one goes to sleep but i didn't want to deal with that i want
to make it as simple as i can right now and those two are the only ones you really need right now
on the settings audio you want to make sure that you have spdif and er selected as you can see here
i'm not sure let's see what else we got and the speakers or tv but that's fine
so here when you collect spf id under audio you want to make sure it's set to auto detect
and then after you make all these changes you have to reset the tv basically restarting it
not turning it on and off a lot of settings won't work unless you restart the tv and you'll
find if you have problems in the future if you restart the tv it usually fixes a lot of problems
so here we have the power setting system restart restart and we've
restart the tv now we're at the denim system we want to turn it on it's just the big
power button on the left bottom there you turn on the denon system and then on your remote you
want to make sure that it set the tv audio that's the connector going to the arc hdmi in the back
now you'll also want to hit setup and this will allow you to connect to the tv
and show what is set up on your um then in menu when you click this setup a menu will
show up and you'll select um from the denning the denon will be sending this video to the tv
using the arrow keys and the enter keys you will select certain features one feature you will want
to select is the hdmi setup under video so you select video then you select hdmi setup
and then you'll get this screen hdmi setup you want to make sure that all these settings are set
up paying particular attention to the arc because on default on the identity system that's turned
off and you need it on hdmi control um tv audio switching on power off control all smart menu on
hdmi password on password and avr is set um that's the only settings we have right now
now we'll go to the tv okay the first thing you want to do is turn off the sound on the tv itself
you'll have an echo if both are on the same time i think the denon takes care of it but sometimes
i just check and make sure that i muted or turned the sound off then you select your input device um
right now let's just select um netflix or something like that
aliens to prevent them from receiving help actually let's just try live tv is
trying to escape live tv is working for medical assistants they don't going through the system
no problem live tv cameras are gone they leak they abandon people under the rubble they told
us to pull the bodies out ourselves when they came to help the injured they stole from them
if one works most likely they all work um let's do netflix real quick here
yep it's running fine for the um denon system now that everything is working
that you show all the streaming is actually working for your device
um you're going to want to test um each other device like a xbox or playstation individually
and i'm going to tell you right now most likely the older xbox the older playstation playstation
3 i know for a fact will not play through the denon box if you put the hdmi cable on to the
denim box it will actually shut down everything on that box from going through the um den and box
it your device has to support cc and arc um i would try each hdmi port from
at one at a time from each device that you plan on adding now if it doesn't work on the denning box
which i most likely won't you put that hdmi cable from your xbox into your tv and then you could use
that as a source and play it through the denim box um this is very important um if you if you
if you put it in there and it doesn't support it's going to shut that denim box down and you
won't know what's going on so you have to check each individual component by itself restart the
systems and make sure everything else works after you add that one device then if one the works then
go to the next one but i'm um be be prepared that you're gonna have to put these through your hdmi
tv sometimes which is no big deal after you select the playstation source and all that
see like on mine i can select playstation if i had it turned on right now it would
it would connect to the playstation and and i'd be able to play my playstation or my xbox
through the home theater um that's what you got to do you got to do one at a time after
you get the original streaming stuff to work the important stuff is the streaming stuff of course
How to setup a Costco Denon AVR-S750H or any other home theater on a TCL/Roku or any TV ARC and CEC