Need Help! Connecting my old 5.1 system to my television

[Manish_1]

Ahoy Experts!

I am new to this forum and off late I have been researching a lot on utilizing my old Creative 5.1 Home Theater with my LG TV. Since I am not too much into audio systems and all, I was getting confused on how to proceed with it so after researching a lot I realized that this forum has great contributors who really know a lot of this stuff. To give you all a brief of what I intend to do, let me share the hardware that I have:

1. I have a great old home theater that I used with my home desktop PC: Creative Inspire 5.1 5200
2. DVD Player: Philips DVP3368
3. LG 3D LED Smart TV (55LW5700)

Now all these products are great, but I am having trouble connecting my Creative 5.1 home theater with my so called not so smart tv (or may for the so call not so smart me).

I researched and found that there are 2 ways through which I could connect my home theater with my TV as below:
1. Buy an AV receiver - Not a good idea (and an extremely costly one) for me considering the fact that I still have my good old home theater.....If I have to go into such hassles then I would rather buy a new home theater altogether that would have the likes of optical, HDMI and what not connectivity.
2. Buy a Logitech 5.1 Game Console Adapter that has three 3.5mm female ports on one end and 2 RCA female port on the other - Buying this is a hassle as this is not sold in India unfortunately and I see it available for delivery in US only.

Hence, I desperately need to try options here to bring my systems together for an enjoyable experience. I know you geeks are the best in this field and would be able to help me out.

I've purposely mentioned my DVD player as a device as I am ready to make use of this to make this union of devices possible. Please suggest on exact cables, converters, adapters that I can use to make a direct connection of my home theater with my TV or via the DVD player.

Eagerly anticipating help on this situation. Many thanks in advance and lot of thanks for suggestion.

 

[americanaudiophile]

The DVD can't help make any connections so hook that up to the TV directly.
The TVs optical audio output has to be connected (via toslink optical audio cable) to an adapter like this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/261325168149?lpid=82
which will perform the surround sound processing.
You will need three cables each with 2 RCA connectors (for the adapter) and a stereo 3.5mm at the other end (for your speaker inputs).
The Creative Game console, from your description, will not give you digital surround sound since the input is analog stereo. You would also need an additional DAC to convert the optical audio to 2 channel analog. More money, messier, and inferior sound.