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| Thread ID: 115292 | 2011-01-11 20:16:00 | Connecting Speakers to TV | xyz823 (13649) | PC World Chat |
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| 1168922 | 2011-01-12 01:18:00 | Only sets that I've seen lately that have an Audio out are Sony & Panasonic. Samsung and LG definately dont. Salesmans answers are that you have to use optical to get full surround sound. Bollocks to that - I have a Sony amp with built in Dolby decoder that does what I want from standard audio TV output. One advantage that the Sony has, is that you can switch the audio outputs to be variable so the TV remote still controls the sound. Not that a single sales person knew that - none of them had heard of Nicam or Teletext either. Except LV Martins - they got my money and I have a nice new Sony. Only gripe - no manual - all on the TV:) |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 1168923 | 2011-01-12 10:45:00 | It's a sign, you need to buy a good receiver, any old one will do, so long as it does SPDIF. SPDIF comes in two variants, coax (which is just a single RCA connector, usually black, carries a digital signal) and optical (same as before, but just over fibre-optic instead of copper) which is what you have here. 99% of them should have a traditional RCA output. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1168924 | 2011-01-12 11:37:00 | Peter, my samsung has RCA outs. It's a series 5 (2 ahead of OP). It might have died from faulty capacitors on the power board within a year (being repaired) but it still had audio output. Then again yes, so does the sony bravia I bought to replace it while we wait. And salesmen are quite stupid sometimes. The nice chap who helped me decide on my TV wasn't sure what I was doing when I hooked up my laptop to examine videos and pictures on the TV to check colours and scaling and noise reduction. Nice enough fellow though. And the new TV is flipping fantastic. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1168925 | 2011-01-12 23:53:00 | Think it is only the latest Samsungs that don't have audio outputs - and yes - the Bravia is excellent video quality - sound not so, but OK for the news etc. One fault, if you use Teletext and then go back to tv, the image size stays small. Need to cycle thru settings to get right. Maybe it's me:confused: |
Peter H (220) | ||
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