I just bought a new bargain Sharp 60" tv apparently with no optical connection. What is the best option for connecting this sound bar to my tv?
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I had the same issue. use an Analog output audio cord or the Co-axial audio output cord to connect the Soundbar directly to your tv. I ended up just plugging the Optical connection from the Soundbar into my Blu Ray player. I used an Analog output audio cord that I had laying around in my house to connect the soundbar to my TV. If you don't have an analog or co-axial cord, be sure to buy one because this soundbar doesn't provide either for you.
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Connects via optical cable, RCA cable or headphone cable. The optical is the preferred connection fir best sound quality. The price of $144 is fantastic. I believe the retail is in the $900 range. I love mine. I would purchase a second one if I has another TV that would benefit by it.
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You have to hook up an optical cable from the TV to the soundbar, then it will work when you put the soundbar in the optical mode
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Hey Craig-Which optical input connection on the Onkyo receiver did you use to connect the optical cable from your TV? I'm not having success. :-(
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I bought a Samsung 120 watt sound bar with a subwoofer but the TV speakers are better than I expected. I also bought a Sony blue ray player and would definitely recommend optical audio and video cables. But their are rca inputs in the TV.
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Just be happy your soundbar is working. I returned mine - no one at Sharp, after 3 weeks of trying, would believe that my unit lost sound output intermittently. I now have a Sony soundbar that is working well (with my Sharp TV), and I could not be more satisfied.
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If you are connected to a cable box, there should be an optical connection there. Once connected, you should lower the volume on the TV to zero so sound will only come from the soundbar.
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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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Hi, As long as your TV has a ( Audio Out ) connection you should be able to connect this sound bar. The Sound bar has a Small ( Audio In ) connector, This type of connector looks like the single poll sized connector used on a lot of computer sound in jacks. If your TV has a RCA type of ( Audio Out ) connections =if it has two connections,( a Red and a White ) audio out jacks like my tv has you can buy an adaptor cable that has the two Red and White RCA plugs on one end that will plug into your TV and the the small single plug jack on the other end that will plug into this sound bar. This is how I set it up with my TV. The sound bar works really good with very good loud and clear sound. It was well worth the money in my opinion. I hope this helps you with your decision.
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I connect this sound bar to my Samsung TV with a BN39-01154G adapter which I acquired from Samsung which is probably at Radio Shack or other vendors as an Audop adapter that plugs into the TV's Audio Out Line which connects the Red.White RCA lines from the sound bar. Hence I give the unit 5 stars for Awesome price and Awesome Sounds!! Good Luck
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That'll work. What I did since I have multiple things connected to my tv (gaming system, satellite, blue ray player), I have all these things connected to my tv via HDMI cable with the tv connected to the soundbar via optical cable; I get to utilize the soundbar for all my connections this way.
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best bet is to connect the sound bar to a cable box or Blue ray..you don't want the source/feed from the TV anyway (The TV audio circuitry is usually terrible anyway) Sound bar gives you the option of playing music without having the TV on.
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Yes you need an optical cable to connect the sound bar to your cable box or TV.
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to me sound is no worse than other tv"s. i just wonder how you get a sound bar to work with this tv?
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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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I used a Vizio S3820w-CO for a few days until my digital optical converter came in and there were NO issues at all. The sound bar did sound better than the TV speakers, which are also not that bad at all. I needed the converter because the Samsung will not accept RCA type plugs for the audio output.
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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...