Worried about Output to Amp for Surround Sound?

[Sir Topham Hatt]

So, I am looking at getting a decent-ish surround sound set up. However a lot of my hardware, such as DVD player / HDD recorder have only these connections in the back:

The red and white output jacks, but surely i'd need more if I was to get true surround sound? At the moment, I use a 2.1 upmix to 5.1 through some old Creative iTrigue 5600 speaker set and a simple 3.5mm jack out of the DVD player into the speakers.

Thanks for any advice.

[limok]

optical out will give you 5.1 surround

[Jeston Veteran]

For true surround sound, you're going to need to use optical, spdif (coaxial), our hdmi. The red and white rca cables will only supply stereo.

[lnmnky]

if he only has the redwhite ones. that won't work will it :p

[NotSoBad]

I f the picture is your hardware, then you are ok, as it show both audio digital ouput and hdmi.