Originally Posted by yustr

You're talking apples and oranges.

First High Definition TV. I assume that your skyhd is a satellite dish receiver. On the back it will have outputs for either one or all of the following: HDMI, DVI, or "Component" (which is red/green/blue or Y/Pr/Pb). Any of these will get you a HD picture once hooked up the corresponding plugs on your LCD TV. Of these, only HDMI will carry any audio so if you want to listen to the speakers on the TV you'll have to use an HDMI cable - or - use one of the others and use the "audio out" (red/white) from the skyhd box to the "audio in" on the TV.

Now you've got a picture but sound is coming only from the 2" speakers build into the TV.

To get surround sound, the skyhd box should have a "digital out" jack. This will be either a single RCA jack or will be an optical plug. Both do the same thing. From either of them you'll run a cable to the "Digital In" on your stereo surround sound receiver. Set the receiver to that input source and off you go.

You'll follow exactly the same procedure for the Blu-ray player. You'll just use a different set of inputs on the TV and on the stereo. So your skyhd can be "Input 1" and the Blu-ray "Input 2". A quick look on the back of each component will make it clear.