TV to Bluetooth hesadphones

You can get adaptors that take analogue audio and rebroadcast it as bluetooth. e.g.:

Does the soundbar have a bluetooth output capability?

Like one of these?

Be wary of Bluetooth for this, its latency may drive you mad.

I use a Jellycomb headset with uses a 2.4 GHz transmitter fed from my TV that transmits direct. Like all good things it seems it's no longer available but it would be worth trying to find something that works in the same way.

I’m surprised there’s no headphone output on your TV, otherwise I would have suggested a long extension lead from that to your headphones, which will avoid a number of problems including supplying power to, and any latency issues that might arise from the use of, Bluetooth-connected devices.

Have you looked in your sound settings, there may already be a setting allowing you to pair Bluetooth devices. Both our LG TVs have that facility and one is about the same age as your TV.

Richard

Headphone sockets on TVs these days are an extreme rarity. You might find them on sets up to about 27" but very little on larger units.

All four of my TVs have headphone sockets! But the newest is seven years old.

OTOH I’m currently enjoying the BBC’s SAS Rough Heroes Season 2, via Bluetoothed headphones due to the loud banging noises, and I can’t say I’ve noticed any lack of sync.

The headphones are linked via the TV’s BT rather than via an external dongle.

Its not a question of the technology as such - its how its implemented.

Sound and video in a digital TB are buffered substantially and the decode times are - on cheaper sets - significant.

If you tap the audio differently from the video you get out of sync. There is no cure than trying a different method of extracting audio

I use something like this:

I plug it into one of the USB sockets for power and take the audio from the

I use it was a pair of stereo headphones off Amazon.

I bought these in 2017, to link the caravan TV to some decent quality speakers.

This worked very well.

The TOSlink connection might be better than other methods; I think it may remove latency problems. Then again, it has been a while.

Cheers

Dave R

As others have said, there are lots of audio to bluetooth adapters out there. However, there are several things you need to check. Can you get sound (and vision) OUT of the RCA sockets or are they just inputs which would allow you to use the TV as a monitor for an external audiovideo source?

Can the TV output sound from more than one output at the same time? Mine can't - I have to choose between internal speakers, bluetooth or optical.

Do you want to use the headphones at the same time as the soundbar is producing sound? If so, as someone else has suggested, you may have to find a way to connect your headphones to the soundbar. Does that have any audio outputs?

I have been through the user manual. Nothing.

Alan

The latency problem is puzzling, at least in my case.

I have three (admittedly) cheap Bluetooth transmitters. If I use them with a TV and a pair of headphones ( not especially expensive ones), no noticeable lag. Try with one of those small portable Bluetooth speakers and the delay is very noticeable. I have a cheapish (‘Chinese copy’ ) one and a good branded one. Both are the same.

I’ve also tried linking the TV to the audio system in our MH ( for use when parked on site !) and the delay is present.

In terms of quality, I’d expect the headphones to be at the lower end - certainly below the branded speaker and way below the MH stereo.

I am going to chance my arm on this one.

Thank you and everyone else who offered advice.

Alan

It seems odd. I cant see any reason to buffer Bluetooth

Headphones can be very high quality and the headphone output on the TV should be pretty much as good ass it gets

If you don’t have headphones, I was in Aldi today and noticed they have Bauhn ones for just under £20.

While Bauhn is an own band, we have one their TVs in the Motorhome. I bought it in about 2018 and it has been driven around the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, …. and is still going strong. Some roads in Belgium are even worse than ours was before it was made up. 😊

I use an optical connection from computer to Smart TV.

"Though only aptX LL supports a latency of fewer than 40 milliseconds"

There are a few compromises in Bluetooth.

Paul