Audio out on the GT25 My husband has headphones that he uses with TV. The headphones are analog (red, white) and the only output on the TV is a digital audio out. Have any of you addressed this issue?
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Yes and no. We have a sound system but it is not connected to the TV. The headphones are the type that allow a person to listen to the TV without the sound disturbing another person. He was using them when he got up earlier than me. It appears that the makers of headphones are producing only analog ones; the Radio Shack guy was going to show me digital headphones, but they turned out to be analog connect also. The products that I have been able to find seem to start at $60+; I wouldn't mind the price if I could be sure that the product would work with our set. Thanks for your input.
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I suggest the GefenTV Auto Volume Stabilizer with Digital Audio Decoder to bridge the gap between optical out and RCA, though it is expensive. The Vizio passive "Cinema 3D" TVs seem to have RCA audio out, but Panasonic and Samsung plasmas do not. [Many cheaper decoders cannot handle the Dolby signal emanating from the optical output, but this one can.]
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I'm not aware of any solutions apart from utilizing the headphone out on your audio receiver. With a TV this nice you've got a sound system, right? ;-)
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I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the audio output is not controlled by the volume setting on the TV. I use the volume on the external receiver/amplifier. I have big speakers, so I set the sound on the TV to Mute and just use the big sound. I should add, I do this for Movies, I do not watch regular TV. It is pretty awesome for movies. I have 4 12" and 4 10" woofers, then mids, tweeters, and horns. So it is quite engulfing. Car races and airplanes have the sound going across the room. Makes one feel like they are in the middle of it. On another note, another person has color setting up on the comments, and I went in and set mine to these values, and wow, what a beautiful picture.
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Does your car use wireless headphones? Ours we followed the directions. Worked righ away. Make sure they are set to channel a or b. we have 2 seperate tvs so one is DVD a other b. they work seperatly.
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Hi Eddie. I use a Western Digital Live TV and a Set Top Box. Both connect via HDMI, and both sources have their audio duplicated and sent through the analogue headphone/speaker port. I connect PC speakers to that port and it works great. Greg
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I wasn't able to figure it out, though I have heard it is possible to get that working. I had an extra AUX cord lying around so I just plugged that into my headphone jack on my laptop and into the Audio outlet on the TV, and it worked perfectly.
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On my TV once I plug in the headphones the TV speakers turn off automatically only allowing me to hear through headphones. Have to unplug headphones to get TV speakers to work again.
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Also check tv settings. Is it digital or analog audio? My tv has digital input that needed a converter. I used old minidisc recorder. There is also standalone converters for around $80 iirc.
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As long as your TV has those 3 or 4 colored plugs to use somewhere (white, yellow, & red, sometimes also another color likely for a mic or something else), you can get a TV Audio Video Transmitter Receiver cable/wire (3 or 2 males to a female for your headphones) to attach to the headphones & TV. I've done that for years with my TV & headphones.
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There is no absolute answer for this. In most cases, when you plug a headphone into the headphone jack on your equipment, the sound to the external speakers is muted, automatically. In fact, that's one of the slightly annoying things about this device because the transmitter plugs into the headphone jack and must be unplugged any time you want to have the external speakers on. If your TV has RCA plugs out you can use an adapter;2 x RCA Male, 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Female, Y-Cable 6-Inchto connect your headphone transmitter to those plugs. Then you can just use your TV onscreen menu to select the audio output you connect the adapter to. I hope this helps. There is no absolute answer for this. In most cases, when you plug a headphone into the headphone jack on your equipment, the sound to the external speakers is muted, automatically. In fact, that's one of the slightly annoying things about this device because the transmitter plugs into the headphone jack and must be unplugged any time you want to have the external speakers on. If your TV has RCA plugs out you can use an adapter;2 x RCA Male, 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Female, Y-Cable 6-Inchto connect your headphone transmitter to... » Read More There is no absolute answer for this. In most cases, when you plug a headphone into the headphone jack on your equipment, the sound to the external speakers is muted, automatically. In fact, that's one of the slightly annoying things about this device because the transmitter plugs into the headphone jack and must be unplugged any time you want to have the external speakers on. If your TV has RCA plugs out you can use an adapter;2 x RCA Male, 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Female, Y-Cable 6-Inchto connect your headphone transmitter to those plugs. Then you can just use your TV onscreen menu to select the audio output you connect the adapter to. I hope this helps. « Show Less
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I had not used that option but have now tested. Headphones work fine and the output to the RCA jacks is not interrupted when the 3.5 mm jack is in use. Something to keep in mind -- there is no volume control on the decoder. The SPDIF output from the TV is probably not controlled either. Unless your headphone has an integrated volume control the result may be uncomfortable. I checked off air vs. DVD on my TV. Off air came out with a moderate volume on my headphones where as DVD was pretty loud during some passages. Depending on your personal preferences it is possible that some audio could actually be too low in volume.
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That's a function of the TV and how you connect. Some TV's will auto mute when you plug in to a 3.5mm audio output. You should be OK if you have RCA audio out on your TV. There also might be a latency which causes a slight echo effect for the person using the headphones, but it's bearable, at least for me.
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TV plug into Audio but then you are the only one that hear it through the head phones and if you plug to the back of your receiver where you can hear and another person sitting there can hear on tv plug into audio using the red and black or red and yellow cords that came with the head phones. if your getting static you need to push the button on the headphones and it should give you a good signal. If you have another headphone system too close to your tv then both headphones will only work off the main tv. My daughter has two pairs so she can listen to tv in her room with out us having to hear hers but she gets our signal because the receivers are too close together. They are great headphones you just need to move the transmitter and use the tuner.
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There is an audio (analog) out socket, but not specially for headsets. I think the other answers give more information than I have.
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This only outputs audio. There is no HDMI out port. To do that you would need an HDMI splitter, and run 1 to the TV and the other to the audio extractor. If you do that, then yes, you can plug headphones into this.
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These are generally meant to plug into a computer, but I just bought them recently and hooked them up to my Samsung TV. There is a mini-plug (male) that comes out of the Z-2300 remote. I plugged this into the headphone jack of my TV. With this setup, my TV's remote control (along with the little knobs on the Z-2300 remote), controls the volume. You can also use a cable with one end that hooks up to the Audio Out (red/white) of your TV and the other end is a female mini-plug, and the Z-2300 remote male plug goes into that. However, if your TV doesn't have "variable" audio out (mine only has fixed), the volume cannot be controlled from your TV's remote control. This is why I chose the headphone jack method instead. I don't have an XBOX, but I would guess that the suggestion I've given will work. You would still have your XBOX hooked up to the TV through HDMI, but the sound would still be directed out the headphone jack into the Z-2300 speakers. For instance, I have a DVD player and a Tivo HD hooked up to my TV with HDMI, and all sound would normally come out of the TV's speakers. But because I used the headphone jack, sound comes out of the Z-2300 speakers. I have had this system for about 2 weeks, and I love it! I hope this helps.
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Hi Arline, This Sony TV KDL32BX320 has no output port for headphones. Thank you! - Jerome
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No. The only sound output is a digital optical port, that supports Dolby Digital or PCM. There are no analog outputs.For a headphone jack, you can get a headphone amplifier with an optical input. That will allow you to use headphones with the optical out. But one of those is at least another $100 or so.