How do you connect a sound system to a 30 inch TV?

Answer

Some TVs will have 3 phono sockets on the back,including a L and R audio. you can use standard phono leads to connect to a active speaker, or and amplifier. Then plug your speakers into the amplifier.

Depends if you are connecting wirh RCA's or other. How old is your 30 inch TV? If a later model ussually by RCA's which are round with a hole in the middle, sometimes colors like red, white, and yellow. If component blue, red, green. You can sometimes use the coaxial version if you have a VCR. You will need to buy a receiver or a DVD/Receiver combo, some are as low as $79.99. Then hook up as Video 3 or Video 2 and even 1, which ever you decide.

If you have an older model and in the back the only hook ups that you have are the Coaxial (Standard one line cable); then you will need a VCR or cable box with a Composite output. Composite is (Yellow/Red/White) or RCA. You can take the cable (Coaxial) and plug into the input of the VCR/cable box, and take a Coax cable from the VCR/Cable Box and hook into the TV. Plug the audio output (Red/White) cables from the VCR/cable box into the Sound System. The sound system should have inputs for composite (Red/White), just match up the colors and should be good.

Now if you have a newer television and it has composite (Yellow/Red/White) and/or Component (Green/Blue/Red). You can hook up the VCR/Cable box the same but instead of using the Coax output, use the composite to hook up the (Yellow) video RCA cable to the input on the TV. Keep in mind though that when using this setup with standard cable you would need to change channels through the VCR/Cable Box.

The same setup will of course work with any type of Satellite receiver as well.