[dknudsen]

Hey guys.

I was wondering what the best/preferred way of connecting a TV (with ARC) , AVR (with ARC), PS3 and Mac Mini (Xbmc) is in your opinions?
Pros & cons please

At the moment the PS3 and Mac is connected to the AVR, and the AVR is connected to the TV by HDMI.
But I was wondering if connecting the PS3 and Mac directly to the TV would be better.

[z31fanatic]

If you don't have any handshake issues then I would leave things as they are now. The only time I recommend going directly to the TV is if you have a cable box because a lot of them have the handshake issue when going to the AVR first. I have my cable box connected directly to the TV hdmi for the video, and use the optical out to the AVR for the audio.

[Dougie Fresh]

If you connect the PS3 and Mac to the TV and then presumably the TV to the AVR, the best you'll get is stereo. If you want DTS/DD you need to go from the PS3/Mac to the AVR with at least the sound (SPDIF) or HDMI.

[dknudsen]

Thanks for the responses

I thought I would be able to use ARC to transfer the sound from TV -> AVR to get DTS/DD etc... ?

[z31fanatic]

Some TVs can do DD but a lot of them can't do DTS. Plus a lot of people have problems with ARC not working correctly.