I have a Samsung UN32EH4003 32-inch 720p 60Hz LED HDTV. I have a TiVo hooked up to it with an HDMI cable. Would this soundbar work with my setup?
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As Rick stated it will work just fine using the HDMI in and Out ports. Connect your TiVo to the HDMI - In on soundbar and then connect your soundbar to the TV using the HDMI - Out on the soundbar and the free HDMI port on your TV. You need to realize that this will mean that you have to have the soundbar turned on in order to watch TiVo content. If the soundbar is turned off it will not allow the datastream to pass through the device. Also you will have to specify source on the soundbar as HDMI, default is ARC (I believe). It also takes about 3 or so seconds for the soundbar to fully initialize therefore you must make sure to give it enough time before deciding it's not working. As Rick stated it will work just fine using the HDMI in and Out ports. Connect your TiVo to the HDMI - In on soundbar and then connect your soundbar to the TV using the HDMI - Out on the soundbar and the free HDMI port on your TV. You need to realize that this will mean that you have to have the soundbar turned on in order to watch TiVo content. If the soundbar is turned off it will not allow the datastream to pass through the device. Also you will have to specify source on the soundbar as HDMI, default is ARC (I believe). It also takes about 3 or so seconds for the soundbar to fully... » Read More As Rick stated it will work just fine using the HDMI in and Out ports. Connect your TiVo to the HDMI - In on soundbar and then connect your soundbar to the TV using the HDMI - Out on the soundbar and the free HDMI port on your TV. You need to realize that this will mean that you have to have the soundbar turned on in order to watch TiVo content. If the soundbar is turned off it will not allow the datastream to pass through the device. Also you will have to specify source on the soundbar as HDMI, default is ARC (I believe). It also takes about 3 or so seconds for the soundbar to fully initialize therefore you must make sure to give it enough time before deciding it's not working. « Show Less
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Justin, I can't really answer that since I do NOT have a Tivo hooked up. So far as I know there is only 1 HDMI cable connection on your TV and you have the Tivo hooked up to that. So you would need to hook up the sound bar with the auxilliary cables (red, white, or yellow tip cables) into the back of your cable box. This is how I connected my sound bar.
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Yes it should work. The sound bar has an HDMI in and an HDMI out. Simply plug the HMDI cable out of the TIVo into the sound bar and the HDMI out from the sound bar to the TV.
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I am not absolutely, positively sure that it will, but I can't think of a reason why it won't. I think D.J. Auerbachs' answer is the way you will need to do it.
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Nope. This is an optical (digital) audio cable. Your sound bar is an analog input.
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If I understand the question you will have multiple devices hooked up to your TV via HDMI and you will use an optical audio cable to connect to the sound bar to play sound from the TV. Yes, the sound will play fine. I have the same set-up for mine. You just need to make sure the "function" is switched to "optical" on the sound bar to have it work.
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We use the hdmi 1 on the soundbar to go to the hdmi 1/arc on the vizio 47" tv. Then we have a sony blue ray player connected via hdmi to the hdmi 2 slot on the sound bar and a Tivo connected via hdmi to the hdmi 3 slot on the soundbar. Hope that helps.
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Yes. The sound bar is a must in order to get the best sound quality from your TV. It works great and easy to hook up.
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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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Hi Shawn.... I have mine hooked up to DISH also and to my audio / video receiver. I do believe if your sound bar has optical outlet you should be fine. :)
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I bought this sound bar and use it on a 65 inch tv and it works great I think it is because they say a sound bar should be as big as the tv you are using
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Yes, this converter will work for your soundbar, however the digital optical audio cable included is such poor quality that it may stop workig after a few week (as mine did). I bought a bluerigger cable on amazon and it works great.
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It should work, you definitely may need the cables or HDMI, but it's worth it...great soundbar!
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Yes it should work. I had to buy this because my TV only has optical digital audio out and my old sound bar only has analog RCA input. I tried simply using an RCA to SPDIF cable but that didn't work and had to get this box to make it work.
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This sound bar will work with the your tv just fine. The only issue I have had with mine, was that sometimes my tv gets out of sync with the bar, as it doenst have a digital out. For the money, this is a pretty good setup once you get everything situated. It will be a bit longer than your tv. it is about 6 inches longer on both sides than your tv.
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This soundbar does not accept HDMI inputs. The concept is to connect most of your sources to the TV and then send the audio output from the TV back to the soundback
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I have Vizio 42" full HD tv and the vizio 40" sound bar. Like others have said the size of tv and the sound bar is irrelevant. Just center it under the tv to make it look neat. And the sound bar sounds great my vizio tv can be set to Pcm, Dolby etc. and everything works fine. Especially right now i have trans siberian orchestra DVD playing and it sounds great.
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I don't actually own this product, but looking at the spec's it has an HDMI out and an optical in. This means that the HDMI connection will probably only work outputting the video signal to your TV from the soundbar's smart apps. Looking elsewhere and reading some of the reviews this sounds to be the case, although the other reply seems to indicate they tested with only HDMI and it worked for them, so take my answer with a grain of salt.
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I have my TV connected to the Soundbar via optical as well and it works fine. I had to buy the cable separately though. I would think that HDMI is all you need since the Soundbar acts as an HDMI hub.
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The SB400 has 3 hdmi inputs and 1 ARC hdmi output. Yes, you can use this wire to connect both of your devices to the soundbar's hdmi inputs then output from soundbar's ARC hdmi to TV. The other interesting scenario is whether your TV has an ARC HDMI. ARC allows for signals to communicate both ways. Let's say my Smart TV has the ability to stream Netflix, Hulu and other content provider and it has an ARC hdmi. If I want to watch a movie using my TV, I will not be able to output the sound from the TV to the soundbar because the this wire is unidirectional. The signals only travels one direction. This is the drawback from a thin cable vs. traditional thick cable. In any case, you should get these cables connecting your two devices to the soundbar. You are going to love how thin and flexible they are. As for the connection from the soundbar to the TV, that is really up to you. If you are not going to output TV sound to the TV, then this cable will do just fine. Hope this helps. P