You must have bought a brand new HD TV recently and you are planning to setup a personal home theater system. And yes, you also got that Blu-ray DVD player to make watching full-screen high definitions DVDs quite a worthwhile experience. Most probably, at the same time, you still own the stereo components and that older DVD/VHS recorder you want to set up and use together with the new HDTV. The home theater cable is no or a little different from the paper shredder cable. Made up of copper, this cable works best with appliances like DVD players, home theaters and other items of routine use.

The last two decades saw a tremendous change in the types of connections used for new consumer electronic products. The right home theater wiring would involve three basic types of cable connections that are needed for proper setting up or installation of a home theater sound system where the home theater receiver performs all the audio/video switching. There is no doubt you always want to connect the right A/V source components to the receiver with the high-quality home theater cable. This way you can experience the high-performance and utmost simplicity of the system operation. But make sure all connections are made with equipment power off and unplugged.
Ideally using HDMI cables, you can easily connect outputs from each source like a Blu-ray disc player, video game console and or HDTV receiver to the inputs on the back of the home theater receiver. Also connect the video monitor output to the matching video input on the HDTV or projector back. Easily run the speaker wire from the speaker outputs to each of 5-7 surround sound speakers, in addition to the subwoofer cable from the sub pre-out jack on the receiver to the input on the powered subwoofer. The BD-Live and Network streaming video capabilities Blu-ray Disc players needs to be connected to the network using the Ethernet cable to experience all the ‘plus’ possibilities for entertainment. The video cables in decreasing order of quality include HD video cables that include DVI and component video cables. The non-HD video cables include S-video and composite video. The digitally-rich audio cables come in two types, popularly known as the optical and coaxial audio cables.
Every home theater source components lacking an HDMI output needs to be connected to the receiver with separate audio/video cables other than home theater cables. The size and the layout of the room actually decide the length of the cables needed to connect speakers to the receiver. Probably, at least 100 feet of total ‘in-wall’ speaker wire will be needed to connect speakers to the receiver.