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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, you don't need an AV Receiver - that's something with a radio in it. You need an AV Amplifier. This has multiple inputs, allowing you to connect the (generally optical) output from your TV, DVD player, etc, to it, and select which input source gets played through the speakers.
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We have a surround sound system and did it that way for years but our new TV does all of that for us. All we did was tell it to send all the audio to the external jack so now we never need to change the input on the receiver unless we are going to listen to the radio. Otherwise, everything that is connected to the TV has it sound pushed through to the receiver. This made set up simpler since we connected everything to the tv (which was easier to get to) instead of the receiver.
Sweatpea, if you're not worried about having "perfect" sound then WDE's or TGS's idea will work well and be much cheaper and easier to set up than a complete sound system.