5.1 Dolby Speakers for DVD Player

[MurphmanL]

While looking around town at lunch break today, I happened to come across these rather tempting TCM 5.1 Surround Cinema Speakers. They have a total output of 70W and are priced at £49. They look very nice, and i bet would produce a good sound. However after reading the box it says it needs a "5.1 source" but i know my new dvd player has no DTS decoder build in. It has an Optical out, as well as loadsa other outputs that do diddly squat. 2 are Phono audio L/R, Video and an S-Video socket. However various other connection sockets seem to do nowt. So basically, I NEED these speakers to accept a Digital Connection. I believe if i am not mistaken, this one Optical Out wire powers all five satellites and the sub, as well as giving the best sound?

Anyways to the point- would it be possible for anybody to have a looksie for these speakers, or at least the TCM website, or if you own these speakers, or have a good idea what the connector would be, please feel free to guess

I will proberly buy these tomorrow reguardless as i can get a refund of cash from Tshibo (coffee shop LOL) if the speakers are not what I want or what I expected them to be.
Any feedback or help would be appreciated. Feel free to contact me via PM or IM if need be.
Thanks, MurphmanL

[Stoo]

The only "TCM" speakers I can find are part of a Sony product code.. which shop were they in?

Personally I don't think you're going to get much at all for £50..

[MurphmanL]

Tchibo, a coffee/catalogue shop lol.
I thought they seemed pretty gd for the money, considering its £40 more for Dixons cheapest home cinema sets, and they are even worse than these..
The main question i need answered is connection, i need these speakers to connect to the player via Optical Out, also, will i need a Decoder to enable this, or does a dvd player have it build in? I know my player doesn't have a DTS decoder, according to the manual.

[Stoo]

Ahhh, it's a bit like Aldi..
I can only find one other mention in the net and that wasn't too useful, they're not on the Tchibo website either..

[Howard]

If they "need a digital connection" then they'll connect to the optical or coaxial digital outputs of your player.

If they need a 5.1 analog signal, then they'll need to connect to the 6-channel analog outputs on the back of your DVD player, but it doesn't sound like it has those.

To be honest though mate, you're really not gonna get much for £50 as was said

[MurphmanL]

70 Watts is enough for me, i picked up my latest set of 5.1 Pc Speakers (Edifier) for £55 retail, cheaper than ive seen them some places online and they pack a punch and IMO, sound better than my old X620's...

Only thing i am unsure of is if my DVD Player has a DD decoder inbuilt or not, it specifically states in the manual it does NOT have a DTS decoder...

So I'll go for these, and if they dnt connect or sound garbage ill return em and keep the cash

[Flibb]

if it had a 5.1 decoder built it in will have loads of connections on the back labelled up front left, front right, centre, rear left, rear right, subwoofer.

DTS is a seperate system to dolby digital , not all decoders have both. Also most dvd's with DTS also have dolby dig on as well.

[Jiff Lemon]

MurphmanL, have you checked out RicherSounds Website?

They've plenty of 5.1 packages starting from £49. If you've already got a set of 5.1's I'd personally keep em for now, save the cash towards something a little more expensive.