I have some questions on the best way/ways to hookup my audio and video components. I hope I have the correct forum for this, if not if you could point me in the right direction that would be great.

I'm looking for a website that would have some detailed A/V setup info or I will also state what I am trying to accomplish. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

First let me say, I do have a decent knowledge of how A/V components should be set up. I bought a new TV (Sony KDS-60A2000) and it a few extras that are throwing me for a loop. My new TV has a fiber optic output and it also has two HDMI inputs that my old TV (Toshiba 57H825) didn't have.

In my old setup I had all the video (satellite, DVD, VCR) running to the back of the TV and all the audio running to the receiver, (Pioneer VSX-D608, old but works well) with this setup I had to use the receiver to turn the volume up. The first thing I was to do is leave the receiver at a set volume and use the TV to control the volume. I know I would have to run a cable from the receiver to the TV. But where I run into problems is do I need to run both an optical cable and composite audio cables to the TV? I'm not sure if there is a optical cable out on my receiver? Also with the HDMI from the satellite to the TV what do I do about audio form the satellite to the receiver, since the HDMI carries both A/V and runs directly into the back of the TV?

I'm going to start with this problem first and go from there.

Thanks for your help!

Not sure I'm going to be of any help here, but it seems to me that you should connect all of your audio and video sources into the receiver using the best available connections, then run a component video cable to the tv. The only exception would be the HDMI output from the satellite, which should go directly to the HDMI input on the tv. Looks like the receiver does not have HDMI, so you'll probably have to use the optical inputs for the audio from all digital sources, and analog RCA cables for the VCR. This way, you'll be able to use the receiver to switch between video sources and control the volume of your home theater speakers instead of relying on the tv speakers, which are probably not that good anyway. If you prefer to not have to turn on the receiver every time you want to watch tv, then you'll have to run RCA cables from each source directly to the tv as well. There will be only an optical input on your receiver, not an output.