Connecting soundbar to new TV

[DerbyBorn]

Make and model of TV?

[michael adams]

On the off-chance this isn't a wind-up.

Download or view the PDF of the manual for the TV, off of the web - always far easier than faffing around with the paper version

Starting at the top do a search for "external" which should throw up a succession of matches one of which should eventually be for sound sources, maybe even "speaker select". Follow what it says on there.

michael adams

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[Richard]

Needs to get a man in to sort it.

[News]

In message , DerbyBorn writes

See my earlier comment. The widget I referenced is switchable (in/out) and, at the price, is well worth trying.

[Brian Gaff]

Most of these fangled bits seem to interconnect using fibre optic cables witch suggests its digital. The analogue sockets may now be replaced by a

3.5 jack socket which doubles as headphones on the tv. The problem to me is that standards seem to be there to be busted and modified as people see fit. The grotty headphone jack on a set top p box needs cleaning every week to stop one or both channels going intermittent. Heap of rubbish. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

AV nearly always stood for Awfully Vague according to one chap who tried to decypherto decypher oriental pictogram instructions for me.

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

I wonder if the yellow thingy is one of those awful multi connection jack plugs. I've had a few tussles with those before. Are you reading this Creative labs?

They often have three channels and an earth, as you surmise, but often need to be really hard inserted or the wrong bits go to the bands on the plug. How much extra would it have cost to just chuck three phono sockets on the back one wonders.

Brian

[Dave Liquorice]

That I think is TMH's problem the yellow/red/white phonos on the TV are an input to the TV not an output. Though there is normally a clue given by the use of the words "IN" or "OUT" in the labeling. Less obvious is a box with an arrow pointing in for an input, and out for an output, this maybe just moulded into the case.

Switchable SCART lead won't help if the SCART socket is configured as an input or can only be an input.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Is it facing south or east?

[David Lang]

Polaroid Series 5

[Robin]

Precise model (not to say size!) matters.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Yes. Likely a games input.

Plenty of modern TVs have no obvious analogue output at all - other than perhaps a headphone one. But often do have a Toslink.

[David Lang]

Whats a toslink?

[Andy Burns]

Digital audio, usually over a low-end fibre optic connector, but can also use an RCA/phone connector (like your red/white ones)

[Adrian Caspersz]

Unnecessary?

A sound bar, presumingly bought near the same price point as the television, is nothing more than two speakers and a bassy woofer in the same box. Not Dolby surround multi-channel fancy wossits.

Just sling a pound-shop 3.5mm to stereo phono cable from the TV's headphone socket to the sound bar.

If we had a model number (or both items), we could perhaps find other places a cable could be fitted, but probably it won't make much difference.

[Jonno]

Richard scribbled

A young man, about 9 years old.

[John Rumm]

It worked on the TV before, if previous posts are anything to go by.

[Jonno]

David Lang scribbled

If you will buy from ASDA...

[DerbyBorn]

Jonno wrote in news:MPG.305fccb3614f214c9898bd@127.0.0.1:

I once overhead an old guy saying, "these will be good because Polaroid made good(!) cameras"

[David Lang]