Patent ID: 8462967

Claim:
A system for configuring speakers associated with a television, the system comprising: a display panel; a processing element operatively coupled to the display panel; a plurality of speakers associated with the television; an amplifier having a plurality of amplifier outputs; a cross-point switch, the cross-point switch having cross-point switch inputs and cross-point switch outputs, each of the cross-point switch inputs connected to one of the amplifier outputs and each of the cross-point switch outputs connected to one of the speakers, the cross-point switch connecting a plurality of pairs of cross-point switch inputs to cross-point switch outputs under control of the processing element; and software running on the processing element, the software configured to determine proper connections between each of the speakers and each of the amplifier outputs and the software configured to control the cross-point switch to connect each of the amplifier outputs to each of the speakers based upon the proper connections.