What I want to know is whether I can connect my DVD/CD player directly into a soundbar, since I have no digital sound output on my TV.
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Yes, you can connect a DVD or CD player directly to this soundbar without having to go through your television.
885764
Thanks for your question. You will require a receiver or amplifier for a disc player to play.
885765
Yes. The soundbar has analog RCA input as well as the optical digital input. Further, there is another input (3.5mm stereo) to connect a portable portable device's headphone output to the soundbar.
885766
We connected our DVD player to the soundbar. You just have to change the source on the remote control.
980660
I have the speaker hooked up to my tv so when I use my dvd player the sound goes through the speaker. I don't know if you can hook the speaker directly to a dvd.
528883
Yes you can. , whatever input you select, this device splits it into a separate audio and video signal. Audio can be linked soundbar through your digital audio port using a toslink audio cable.
1023342
Yes. I connected the RCA jacks of the TV listener directly to my DVD player's audio output. Now the sound I get is completely independent of the volume I set on my TV as long as I'm watching through my DVD player.
1203813
It has HDMI so, yes you could hook it directly to a DVD player; but there are no speakers.
1990629
We recommend you obtain an Optical to Analog adapter with a built-in Dolby Digital converter. The Optical connects the TV's optical output jack to the adapter and the adapter's red and white jacks connect to the sound bar.
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The D/A converter unit has standard RCA jack outputs which can be connected to any analog preamplifier, amplifier or low-level tape-style (250mV) inputs. So the sound data flows from TV (digital) to the optical OR Coaxial cable connected to the D/A converter. The analog outputs then can connect to any powered speaker unit or amp with analog (unbalanced) RCA connections. If the "soundbar" has an analog input, it should work. Many have digital coax or optical inputs, and in this case, the D/A converter is completely unnecessary.
44650
If you have the blue ray hooked up through an hdmi cable all sound should sound good through the sound bar, but you will probably get better sound quality going straight from DVD player to soundbar!
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I'm gonna say no. Just plug everything into your TV then use an optical cable to connect the tv to the soundbar. All sounds should play though the soundbar.
850668
I have my tv connected to the soundbar with the optical port, and it works for the tv and the cable box. The dvd player I have it connected with the regular red and white cables. Make sure you change the output, if you try with all outputs, then maybe is the optical cable that is bad, or maybe you don't have it connected all the way. Check the connections again. Soryy that is all I can thimk of, I am no expert, but it waorks for me.
2052288
No .. RCA and digital .. I have hdmi into the TV and digital out from the tv into the soundbar
1963211
You can connect it directly. It may not be the correct signal strength from the DVD and you probably won't be able to change the volume with a remote but it will work.
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I didn't play with it enough to see if the Bluray INPUTS sounds from the HDMI. (I believe the HDMI is for output.) The optical digital is easy to pipe any sound that would normally be coming out of the TV into the bluray. ie VCR, Wii, laptop. Set the bluray on "TV" and it plays whatever the TV speakers would be playing. (I'll have to check if there is an "HDMI input" mode on the Bluray.)-Will
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No, you cannot connect directly to external speakers. The TV has a digital optical audio output which can be connected to devices like soundbars, some Blue-ray players or audio receivers, etc that are equipped with audio optical inputs.
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Probably. It is an amp......what goes in will get boosted at the outputs. A lot depends on the soundbar amps gain level at the inputs you described. The odds are in your favor. Try both the CD and the TV inputs. I bet they will have different gain levels.
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You can get an adapter cable to go from the RCA on the cd changer to a 3.5mm phono plug and then plug that into the audio in port of the soundbar. Not digital like the optical cable, but the changer isn't optical out anyways and this is much cheaper.
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I hooked my DVD player up through my surround sound receiver. From the looks of the back of the TV it looks like you could hook your DVD player to it.