I am here to show you how to set up your home entertainment. We are here to talk about how to choose a Blu-Ray player for your new high definition system. Blu-Ray is the new standard of DVD.

It fits a bigger quantity of film, recorded in high definition with the best sound. You stick in in your player and then the player itself will match the televisions quality giving you the best picture, the best sound and also the best features possible on a Blu-Ray disk. The best ones to go for would be the ones first that can match your system by looks.

You don't want something that is a bit mismatched. Also, the best ones are the ones that can display the best colors, the most content, and also the newest ones possible can now go on the internet. You can go on youtube.

Some have wireless and are more like computers than DVD players. Also, you can buy PS3 and play for free. It plays Blu-Ray and also games.

Like I said, you can go on the internet and use other features at the same time. For Blu-Ray players, you are looking at about one hundred ten pounds up to at most three hundred fifty pounds. That is how you choose a Blu-Ray player.

So now we're here to talk about looking for the best DVD player to support your new high-definition television. The newest DVD players now will have to be "DVD upscaling" it. What this means is that once you put your DVD in through the HDMI connection, it will upscale it to its highest definition possible to match your television, so you can get the best detail and also the best sound for it.

The price range for a DVD upscaler is.you can have from £50 up to £150, depending on the grade and also the manufacturer of them. That's how you look for the best DVD player.

So you've got one right here. As you will see this is an all-in-one DVD 'home system' system, but in this case we've got a smaller solution. You've only got the three speakers: you've got the left and the right speaker along with the subwoofer for the bass.

This will simply be connected to the television, and that's it. If you wanted some more of a cinematic effect--you've got a larger room with a larger scope of sound--you are better off going for the 5.1 system.

So, again, another system, whether it's a DVD or a Blu-ray or a system by itself, you have that here. You have the central speaker for the central sound; the left and the right front speakers; and then, also, you've got the left and the right rear speakers, which would be positioned in the far corners of your room for the surround. And then, again, you have the subwoofer here for the bass so you can get the low-frequency sound to give it that more cinematic effect.

I'm here to show you how to set up your home cinema equipment. Now we're going to talk about to look for your high definition sets. There are 3 types of sets in this day and age that you can go for.

You can go for a plasma, you can go for a LCD or you can go for one of the new LED backlit screens. The difference between the 3 is the plasma is the older technology so you find that's the better for bigger sizes and also for more cinematic feel. And also if you want to go for a big size, you've got a big room or got smaller budgets they can go for those televisions.

LCD and LED backlit televisions they are the new technologies. They are slimmer, they consume less power and also you can get them from a range of different sizes from very small to put into the kitchen or bedroom to even very large to put into your living room and to have a cinematic effect. And also you do get brighter images as well and you get a bit more sharpness with displays.

With the LED backlits now, you get the same aspects with LCD, you get bright display, less power and also they are incredibly thin. The next thing to look for now is whether or not the television is HD ready or full high definition. The difference between the two, HD ready means that it can take the lowest high definition signal possible which is 720 lines per frame also called 720p.

This standard is the broadcast standard for things like on Freeview, on cable or on Skype. If you do want to go for a full 1080 television, you only benefit the full 1080 if you are watching a blue ray or playing a game like on a PS3, on a Xbox and then also if you got your computer connected. Always be aware of the budget that you have.

Like I mentioned earlier, if you are looking for a big TV but a small budget, plasma would be the way to go. But if you are looking for the best and your budget is pretty unlimited, you can go for one of the slim led TVs and also the 3 new televisions that are coming out soon. And that is how to choose a high definition television.

Now I'll talk about how to choose the best video camera to suit your system. Right here I've got an HD camcorder. As you see, it's small in size.

You have different ones available, some that can record on their own built-in hard drives and memory; you can also have ones that record on the memory card so you can share them across; and also, if you want, you can go for ones that can record on tape--on a DV or HDV tape itself. The best ones to go for, for the home user, will be one that is small and portable to use, but at the same time you get enough functions and ease of use to point-and-shoot and have the best screen as well. Most cameras can also be used as a digital camera so you can take stills.

Also, the newest digital cameras can record video as well. Even the newest SLRs are very good in recording video. And that's how you choose a video camera.

What we're here to talk about: how to buy the best speakers for your home entertainment system. Now, the speakers that you can choose are manifold. If you've got a receiver or amplifier connected to your system itself, you want to go buy the best frequency, the best impedance as well.

Also, you want to get the best design and the best look to fit your room and your equipment that you've got already. The best manufacturers you're going for are the ones made by Denon, Kenwood, KEF, Mission, Onkyo.or even, if you want to, go for a Sony or Panasonic brand as well. Speakers are variable in price.

You can buy anything from central and side speakers, you can buy a subwoofer, and also you can extend your room so you have about ten speakers if you want for the fullest and the max experience. That's how you choose speakers for your system.

Now we're here to talk about how to clean your television screen. Most of these television screens, as usual, will accumulate dust and dirt. Also, if you've got small children, or if you've got irresponsible adults yourself, they'll keep on touching the screen like this so you've got a whole lot of finger marks there you want to undo.

The best thing to go for is to try and avoid using normal things like a sponge and water or anything like that. They can leave residues, and tissue can actually cause the screen to scratch with the small fibers. What you do is you buy screen cleaner and you buy a microfiber cloth or special cleaning tissues for cleaning screens.

What you do then is just spray on the tissue itself and just wipe, gently wiping across the screen until the dirt and dust are completely gone, leaving no residue and no marks on the screen. Finally, as you clean your screen, it's always best to make sure your screen is off so you can see the dirt and the dust that you're trying to get rid of. And that's how you clean a television screen.

So, now we are going to talk about how to connect your Freeview box to a television. Now in this day and age, almost all high-definition televisions that you purchase will have freeview built in, so you wouldn't need to connect a Freeview box to it. All you'd have to do is connect your aerial into your aerial socket in your wall, or if you've got an indoor aerial it will go inside of that.

And now, through the aerial and with the relevant tuning, you'll have Freeview ready in your television. If you are unfortunate not to have a Freeview video chip built into your television, then all you'd have to do is purchase a Freeview box. Most of the new ones will be HDMI labeled, or maybe SCART as well, and all you would have to do is connect it by SCART, by HDMI, into this connector here.

Right, so now, we're going to connect our video camcorder to our television. Now, most video camcorders would be HD ready so the easiest way to connect it is using a HD wire cable. Buy a special one.

You need a miniature one, so I've got some extra here. So, what we do first is I will find the port where the HD wire is connected, take out the port, I'm just going to plug it in here like so, place our camcorder somewhere else, then, easiest pick I'm doing here. And it's connected.

We're going to connect our computer to our television. First is this cable.

This is the VGA cable; it's the same cable that would connect to a monitor. You will connect it straight into the laptop where it's got the "VGA Out." Then, simply enough, on your HDTV--most of them--you'll have something called "PC In.

" All you'll need to do is connect it straight in. We need a sonic solution, so we've got a jack. It's a jack cable, or sometimes, depending on the television, you may need to get a "Jack-to-RCA" cable to connect it.

So now we have this connected straight out of our sound card. Then, on the same for our television, you'll see a jack input here labeled with "PC or DVI Audio In." All we do is connect it straight up, simply enough.

So now, once we've connected our computer to our screen, we set the "Input." So select "Source," and then just select the correct input for the PC.

1. First is this cable, this is the VGA cable, it's the same cable you'd connect to a monitor.
2. You connect straight to a laptop where it's got a VGA OUT and then simple enough on your HD TV, most of them will have something called PCN. All you need to do is connect is straight in. We need a sound solution, so we've got a jack to jack cable, or sometimes depending on the television you may need to get a jack to RCA cable to connect it.
3. So now we have this connected straight out of our sound card, then on the same for the television you see a jack input here labelled PC or DVI AUDIO IN. All you do is connect straight up, simple enough. So now once we've connected our computer to our screen, we need to set the input.
4. So you select SOURCE and you need to select the correct input for the PC.

We're here to correct the common problems you have with your TV set. The most common problem is when you have a lack of signal, or no signal at all; you've just got a fuzzy signal. Or, if it's with Freeview, it just may have no signal at all.

The best thing to do is, first, check your connections. So if we go and check the most basic connection, which is our antenna, first we see if it's inserted properly. So we take it out, put it back in again, and make sure the other end is connected into its relevant source, either into the wall for your outdoor aerial or connect it straight into your indoor antenna.

Or, if you've got a Skybox, the same thing: make sure the connections are there. Once that's done, to retune all of our channels, we go to the menu option, select "Auto Tune," select what kind of input you want--we've got aerial antenna--and choose whether or not you want to go with digital or analogue. What we do is we sit back and let "Auto Tune" select the channels, and afterwards you should be watching Freeview.

If all else fails and you finally have problems tuning your television, or if you have problems viewing your Blu-ray or DVD through HDMI, contact the manufacturer or the retailer for more assistance. Also, refer to your warranty documents and you'll know how to get a technician to come in and service your television as well.

To look for the best deal on a home entertainment system, the best thing is to look at the package deals. So these are ones that include the home cinema system, whether it's dvd or blu-ray, along with the television and also, if you can, with a stand as well. Those packages usually come at set prices, but if you can, you can have a word with the salesman and get the best deal. Or if not, you can come and find me at Mikro Anvika Westfield and I'll give you a good deal!

I'm going to start with the television. As you see, I've stuck a 40-inch LCD back-lit television here, full high-def ready but we've got nothing connected. The first piece of equipment we're going to set up today is this right here.

This is a Blu-ray player. Stick the first cable through, which is the power cable. Next thing we need to do is the all-important HDMI cable.

This cable is very important. Make sure you always buy this cable whenever you buy a television or a Blu-ray, because most time these cables don't come inside of them. What we're going to do now is we're going to stick this cable into the cable arrangement part.

We're going to connect it into this port here. And now, simply enough, we'll connect it to one of these ports. So this is the second HDMI port.

When we finish connecting all our equipment up, whenever we set up our source it will be this port that we refer to. The next cable that we need to worry about now is the coaxial cable. This cable will plug in right into the antenna input here.

The next thing we're going to connect now--which a lot of people do tend to mess up--is this little thing here. This is called a TOSLINK, or an audio optical cable. This cable here can give you stereo sound, it can give you a higher-definition sound, or it can give you the 5.

1 surround sound, which most home cinema systems use today. Associate this to "Audio Out (Optical)." What we do is we will just plug this right in here, like so.

And then with our home cinema system you just plug it straight in where it says "Optical In." Now, once we have all these cables connected, you are now set to turn on and then to order high definition.

The first way is if you have iTunes or an MP3 player on your computer, you have it connected as we already have with a VGA and a mini-jack, straight into the television itself, choosing correct input, select your track, and listen to your music. The second and the most fulfilling way to listen to your music through your TV system is to do it through your surround-sound system. Now, most new surround-sound systems like this one here will already have something like an iPod or an iPhone dock, so it is simple enough to dock your iPod here and then you just load it onto the screen and you can select what tracks you want to play.

If not, you can connect it straight into the back of the system itself into the audio inputs, using the same jack cables or audio cables from the other device. Play it through. But also some systems like this one may have the ability so you can play it straight from your phone or from your personal MP3 Player so you are able to listen to your music with the best sound possible with the best sound system you can get.

I'm here to show you how to set up your home system equipment. So if you take a look at the screen now.as you'll see, the resolution itself is pin sharp. You see more colors, a greater display and also a better immersion.

The final check, if your're still not sure if the screen is high definition or not, is you can press the info button on your remote. It shows you the resolution. If it is "standard def" you can expect the numbers 576 or 480, but for high definition it is always 1920x1080.

That is the highest definition possible that you can get to watch television.

So, now I am here to show you how to set up your surround sound speakers to your system. As you can see we have everything laid out nicely. The first speakers we will concentrate on are the front ones.

We have your central speaker, the best place to align it will be right in the middle, and this speaker is for listening to speech and subtle sounds. Then you've got your side speakers; the front ones. You've got your right one here; you've got your left one here; they are always best to be positioned at the front of your system itself or the front of your room beside the television.

Then you've got a subwoofer, which is very important, this will be connected either; pretty much anywhere in the room. You can have it next to your system like you have it, behind or if you have the pleasure of a wireless one, you can put this anywhere else in the room as long as it's next to a power supply. And this will give you the bass and the low frequency sounds so you got a bit more oomph in your sound.

And then finally depending on if it's a 5.1 or if you've got a 7.1 system, you've got the back two speakers.

You've got the rear right or the rear left; they are always positioned in the rear of the room. Or if you have the 7.1 you have the side style position on each side.

These are surround speakers so these will give you the sound that comes from all different corners of the room to have a more cinematic feel to your sound. Once all of this is connected just sit back and enjoy the movie.

Sometimes when you connect your television up as a monitor to your computer it doesn't recognize it straight away so then what we need to do is we need to go to the settings of the graphics card and identify the display. So now we've got Windows 7 system up and we've got the display settings so what you need to do is identify display by pressing this button and what will happen is that it will give a bigger number like this depending on the screen arrangement. Now sometimes you want to have 2 separate screens to separate monitors for your system itself, so what you would do is you click on this one here and you say extend the display so now this doubles the amount of displays the system can identify.

If you need to change the resolution then using this setting here you've got a dial that basically allows you to set the resolution from low to high and you can see the arrangements change as well. And then finally, if you need it in a certain direction depending on how you surf your system, you can drag and drop the arrangement of your screen on the display here, then once that's done you select apply, wait for the changes to be done and then now everything should be ready so if I open up my system and watch iPlayer on Windows Explorer you can drag and drop the image to the other screen and then now that should display on the other screen like so here.|How To Use Your TV as a Monitor For Your PC: This video shows you the simplest way to connect your PC to your TV, so you can watch a big screen while on your computer! No more hunching over your PC screen!

Now that you've got your TV connected up to your computer, you may want to watch your DVDs straight from the computer and use the television as your display. So, a very simple manoeuver. Once everything is connected you literally just open up your DVD compartment, select a DVD and just place it inside like so.

Close the lid and then wait for the associated program to load once the DVD is verified. Then you can enjoy it coming from your computer.