i have sony BD player HDMI out to TV. TV optical out to soundbar? sound from BD and TV will output to SB via optical? sony BD has S/PDIF out too.
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The soundbar does have optical input on the rear. See http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/cpindex.pl?ctn=CSS2123B/F7&dct;=QAC&faqview;=1&re;fdisplay=QAC_94446&refnr;=0094446&scy;=CA&s;lg=AEN
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Sorry to say, I am not at all familiar with the technical aspects of how this connects to the TV. I had folks helping me with the hookup. I do know that turning off the TV does not turn off the soundbar...that has to be done with its own remote...the Sound bar takes over the TV's sound. Note that we did have to adjust the TV sound and then the Soundbar sound and then it sounds great. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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As long as a line is going out from the tv to the soundbar, it will play whatever is on the screen.
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It should work. I have a Sony BD player connected to my Insignia TV via HDMI. But since my TV doesn't have an optical out, I used a digital coax cable to connect to the soundbar. Now my TV, blu ray and even Chromecast output to the soundbar. I do not see any reason why an optical cable will not work.
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Does your receiver have an "optical" output? If it does, try hooking that to the Soundbar. Have an HDMI and an Optical hooked up and they both work fine . . . . .
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Depending on how you have configured the connection the answer may lie in whether or not you are using a digital optical cable for the out put of the TV to the unit. HDMI is for ingoing signals, but if you are using the TV as a source to amplify then you need to add the digital optical cable from the TV out to the Sound bar in for this cable. If that does not correct the problem, then you may have a defective unit. This cable is not included in the box, but can be purchased for about 10-20 dollars depending where you buy.
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Yes, but one quick note that might help you: I switched from and older receiver that had many inputs and outputs but no HDMI to a newer one with HDMI support. At first when setting up the sound bar I freaked out when I realized the newer receiver didn't have optical out but it didn't stop me; I ended up running the optical out from the TV to the sound bar. If you have to do this you might need to go into your receiver's settings and enable sound through the TV HDMI signal (it was disabled in mine).
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Either a digital optical or coaxial optical cable. Your TV most certainly has an output for one or both of those, which will connect your TV to soundbar. It should also work to transmit sound to the sound bar from devices plugged into your TV via HDMI(cable box, dvd, Xbox, etc). I have my unit connected with a coaxial digital cable and t sounds great and also has the bonus of not tying up and HDMI input ont TV because I use them all already.
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Unfortunately I can give you no answer regarding this question. I am using the HDMI inputs/outputs. My unit has 4 HDMI in and 2 HDMI out. I do not recall my unit having optical outputs.
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I connected a Blu Ray players HDMI output to the H6510BD's HDMI input. The video was projected on the screen, The H6510BD sent analogue audio to the 3.5mm audio output jack which I connected to some active PC speakers. I have connected my blu ray player's HDMI output to a 7.1 channel home theater receiver the receiver sent the 7.1 audio to the audio speakers and the HDMI video to the H6510BD. I was never able to get anything beyond standard 2 channel analogue audio from the 3.5 mm audio out jack.
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Hi squeezil1, HDMI connection transmits both video and audio signals in digital format while optical cable only transmits audio signal. If you are using this Sony Soundbar for audio purposes only, you can use optical cable. However, if you are using this unit for both video and audio (when a cable box is connected), you can use HDMI instead. So bottom line is that both connection has superior quality, it just depends on your type of usage. -Ely
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My Philips TV does not have an optical output so I used the digital line out to the soundbar, the sound comes out pretty loud, on the other hand I used an optical out of my Bluray player. When I play a movie on the bluray, I am able to compare sounds by switching back and forth using the remote, the Optical sounds clearly louder and better than the digital line.
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Yes, you can connect your blu-ray player directly to the sound bar's receiver/subwoofer. But you will need an additional HDMI cable to go from the receiver to the TV. They supply the cable that goes from the sound bar's receiver to the actual speaker array (sound bar) so no expense required there.
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I have everything going to my TV (so that is my limit on HDMI inputs). I then just run 1 optical from my TV to the soundbar.. and *any* input/sound combination then successfully is sent to the soundbar (hdmi1 for fios, hdmi2 for bluray player, hdmi3 for xbox etc)
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If you connect the bluray to the tv, the sound output from the tv to the sound bar should work.
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Jim, i have this unit and hdmi is finicky so i couldn't get it to work. So no big loss. Instead, use fiber optic audio output of tv to feed optical input of soundbar and all will be good. Regards, Greg
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The sound bar has TWO optical inputs, so just hook up the optical cable from your blu-ray player to the second input. And BTW, your blu-ray player will be connected to your HDTV via an 'HDMI' cable, NOT RCA cables. If you use RCA cables, you will only get standard definition video and audio!!
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HDMI is capable of carrying much higher resolution audio than optical can carry. If you are going to go through this sound bar system with multiple source devices feeding one display, then hook it up all HDMI. The sound from every source will be through this audio system, the picture will be on your TV. Make sure your HDMI cables are "high speed" if you will be trying to play 3D Blu-ray movies through this on a 3D TV.
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Actually I'm using the optical audio output from my Sony tv to the optical input of the sound bar...not sure why it wouldn't work when using the red/white output from your tv into the soundbar...all I did was hook it up and turn my TV speaker off...make sure the blue light is lit up on the soundbar when powered up...
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Im having an issue with this. I contacted Sony and they told me to hook up my:Bluray > HDMI > TVBluray > Optical Cable > Home TheaterHome Theater > HDMI > TVWhen i play my dvds on my home theater i get the full surround sound, BUT when i play my blurays i dont. I get the same sound from my front right speakers and my right rear speakers (same thing for the left side). Does anyone have a solution? or having these same issues?My Equipment: Sony Bravia KDL46V5100, Sony HDX589w Home Theater, Samsung P3600 BluRay Player