I'm setting up my home theater for the first time and need some help.

Here is what I have:

AV Receiver - Yamaha HTR-5960
FTA - Fortec Lifetime Ultra
TV - Sony KLV-40S200A
DVD - Need a recommendation on an upconverting DVD player (or should I go with a PVR)?
VCR - Disconnected for now (never using it)
Speakers - Polk Audio Home Theater Speaker System (RM6750)
Remote - Harmony 520

Here is how I have hooked them up:

1. Rogers cable connected to TV
2. Sat cable connect to FTA receiver
3. I've only hooked up three speakers yet (center, front right and front left).
4. Connected audio out (red and white) to VCR input of Yamaha (not sure where else to put it...
5. Connected video out (yellow) from FTA to Video In 1 on TV
6. Connected audio out (red and white) from FTA to DTV on Yamaha

Question I have are:

1. Have I set it all up properly? If not what should I change?
2. How do I hook up the sub woofer? Do I need a special cable? The AV receiver shows one connector for the sub woofer, however the back of teh sub woofer has many connectors (see pic)...
3. Should I use S video cables instead of composite (don't have the cables... will need to buy them)
4. I have programmed the Harmony remote and it seems to work for the most part. Though I will have to fine tune it so that i can ensure I have all the options from the original remotes.
5. When using the remote, If I want to change from one activity to another - do I have to power off than start again? I tried going from "watch TV" to "watch Satellite" but it doesn't work properly
6. The Sony TV remote did not have a "Guide" button... I have been used to getting the TV (Rogers Cable) guide but am unable to get it on the new TV (used to get it on a 27" RCA CRT). There is a guide button on the harmony, but it does nothing to get the TV guide...

I have posted pics of the backs of each device:

Thanks!!!!!

http://www.yamaha.ca/av/Images/receivers/HTR5960/rear.jpg

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anyone?

If it works, your connections are OK.

Your receiver can do A/V switching, so you might want to hook all the components into the receiver, and then run one cable from receiver to TV -- that could simplify management.

Btw:
If you have component video (three RGB cables) out of something, then use that.
If you have S-Video (small multi-pin DIN plug) out of something, then use that.
Only if none of the above are available, should you use a single "yellow" video cable, as that format (composite) degrades the available picture somewhat.

Most DVDs can do at least S-video out, and many satellite and cable tuners can do that as well.

Sorry, no idea on your guide button issue.

If it works, your connections are OK.

Your receiver can do A/V switching, so you might want to hook all the components into the receiver, and then run one cable from receiver to TV -- that could simplify management....

What he said plus another thing is that your Yamaha receiver does that one step further, it does component video up conversion.

So if you have composite video (yellow RCA) or Svideo (round 4 pin) you feed all those video sources into the receiver, then your receiver will up-convert all those video sources into component (red blue green)

So what you'll do then is send a single set of component video cables from your receiver into your tv.

- Josh

If it works, your connections are OK.

Your receiver can do A/V switching, so you might want to hook all the components into the receiver, and then run one cable from receiver to TV -- that could simplify management.

Btw:
If you have component video (three RGB cables) out of something, then use that.
If you have S-Video (small multi-pin DIN plug) out of something, then use that.
Only if none of the above are available, should you use a single "yellow" video cable, as that format (composite) degrades the available picture somewhat.

Most DVDs can do at least S-video out, and many satellite and cable tuners can do that as well.

Sorry, no idea on your guide button issue.

Thanks for your response! Greatly appreciated.

I was reading up some more and it seems like most people say that component is better than SVideo... is that really the case or is it the other way around?

With regards to the guide - I called Sony and they said that the TV will not support a guide from an analog source.

this is the video quality chain from lowest quality to highest

Coax
Composit
Svideo
component
VGA
DVI / HDMI

Component video is much better than Svideo, Component can handle HDTV resolutions like 720p and 1080i where as the highest svideo can do is 480i.

- Josh

this is the video quality chain from lowest quality to highest

Coax
Composit
Svideo
component
VGA
DVI / HDMI

Component video is much better than Svideo, Component can handle HDTV resolutions like 720p and 1080i where as the highest svideo can do is 480i.

- Josh
Thanks for the clarification!!

Found this as well...

http://lyberty.com/encyc/articles/svideo.html