Hey, I am having a hard time understanding if this is a docking station with speakers that can be played anywhere or just a connecter to things like TVs. The pic looks like it has speakers that might just play when plugged in but I'm not sure
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The thing at the left is a remote control and the one at the right is a wall connector. I have founded it very helpful, i connect it to a Bose speaker and it is always charged, also looks organized and is easy to use with the remote Rgds
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Thanks. You answered my question. The docking station is a wired connection.
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No, there is a place to rest your iPod, but no docking station. It does come with a USB cord to plug in and my daughter is almost certain you can charge it that way. She's going to try it out tomorrow and I'll get back to you. She absolutely loves this! I will tell you we had to replace the first one, the left speaker did not work, but the replacement works great!
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As far as I know you should be able to use it as a docking station. I can not be certain though as the one that I received did not work.
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I never tried it myself, but it does have an HDMI port, which would make it a dummy if it couldn't. One thing to consider if you're thinking about docking it - there aren't many USB ports (not sure at the moment if one or two) and there's no bluetooth to connect sound or mouse. That was disappointing to me.
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This unit does not have built-in speakers (but stand alone speakers will usually always be better anyway). It does not have a built-in tuner (only HDMI (two ports), DisplayPort and VGA). If you have a separate tuner with HDMI you would be able to use it though.
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It is a thing that replicates the ports of your laptop, by forwarding data to and from its own ports. Docking stations like this one usually are also port replicators. E.g. your laptop has ports: USB, audio, network, VGA/DVI/DP (external video for a monitor) and more. The docking station has the same or bigger set of ports, and when you drop your laptop on it, they are automatically mounted as if they were internal laptop ports. You can attach a bunch of cables from stand-alone keyboard, mouse, several monitors, speakers - all to the docking station, and when you drop a laptop on it, they will be all instantly re-attached. That's why it's called port replicator. It's often that port replicators have more ports than the laptop had originally. E.g. laptop may only have a VGA port for one external monitor, but a docking station may have two (VGA + DVI or VGA + DisplayPort), so you can make a better workspace. It often has more USB ports as well. I am seeing 4 on my ultrabase, but the X220 itself only has 3. I think buying an X-series laptop without a decent docking station/port replicator means getting substantially less value for your money. Since I tried it for the first time, buying a docking station is a no-brainer decision for me (and it's also the reason why I don't buy certain brands of laptops - some of them do not come with good docking stations).
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Hello, I actually don't know how to explain this well, so I will try and give it a shot. All that I do is hook it up to my laptop, play music from ITunes or Spotify, and plug in the 2 Sony Speakers I have and it's like having music anywhere around the house. Does that help?
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It doesn't really stay in dock mode for me. If it actually goes into dock mode, and you have a music shortcut on the dock screen (which can be customized) you can play music through the speakers while charging. But if you end up pressing the home key and taking it out of dock mode, it stops playing through the apeakers and the you'll have to undock/redock again to play through the speakers. Its really annoying. If you end up getting this dock and figure out a fix, please let me know!
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Only able to use bose speaker with this item. Only plug it on wall outlet when in use; other wise don't leave plug in all the time. The receiver stays on the docking station.
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This dock should work for that. It will play through an aux input, and even includes a cable for it.
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It has a LAN connection as well as a USB connection. Plus it does AirPlay. However, I'm not sure how you would hook it up to a TV unless you routed it through an AV receiver. It would be loud enough to work as your primary speakers in a small room, but the small separation/distance between the speakers might sound weird with a big screen. The sound is awesome though for music. a If you have a home theatre PC you could hook it up to that...that's probably the best solution if you really want to hook it up to your TV. I would just go with a soundbar though...about the same price and more speakers.
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I only used it for charging. I was not able to play music thru it from my Sony docking station.
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can anyone summarize this process becuz the website is undergoing maintenance and i can play my ipod and dvd's and they sound great so i bought everything u need for the TV (HDMI cable and additional audio cable) and it does the automatic muting crap too. all i want to do i utilize these damn speakers so can anyone help me?
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It's a dock station and you can connect it to your TV I have it connect to the TV and listen to music in the kitchen with the speaker.
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This is a charging dock, connected to a wall charger or your computer. Music would be played via bluetooth or connected to a speaker through the headphone jack.
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The connections are USB and a small green plug like you'd see with computer speakers, so I don't see how. Even if you could rig something up, I wouldn't recommend it. The speakers that come with the TVs today are already far superior to the sound quality produced by this product. Good luck.