Now, even if you don't care about consolidating remotes, in order for HDMI ARC to function (eARC is mostly excused from this), HDMI-CEC needs to be enabled for both your TV and AV hub — be it a ...

Behind every good home cinema setup, there is an HDMI cable – or so the saying goes (sort of). While HDMI cables might not be the most exciting things in an AV system, it's hard to overstate how ...

If you’re bought yourself a swanky new TV and want to connect it to your A/V system, you’ll have the option of a few different cable types to use. There are classics like 3.5mm and optical, but you’re ...

HDMI, which stands for 'High-Definition Multimedia Interface' (keep that in your back pocket for future pub quiz use), first appeared 20 years ago and quickly transformed how we connect our TVs, ...

Over the years, there have been plenty of different ways to get audio into an AV receiver as part of your home theater setup. For components like DVD players, this was always fairly straightforward: ...

I've been trying to get my laptop to send audio over the HDMI output into the HDMI ARC input on a new amp. Didn't work with the 11yo v1.2 cable I'd been using but also doesn't work with the one ...

If you have a fancy home theater system with a soundbar and surround sound speakers, then how you connect it to your TV is an important consideration. There are legacy options you may be more familiar ...

The Sonos Arc is a great soundbar, but it would be even better if it had two HDMI ports to get around the limitations of TVs that lack eARC support. The Sonos Arc is an exceptional soundbar, and not ...