cant get 42 inch samsung to play through the sound bar . why?
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Well make sure that you are putting the audio wires from the soundbar into the output of the television. Also make sure you are not putting it into the connections that have audio and video connections. Avoid the red, white and yellow trio on the back of your television. Look for the specific audio outputs in the back of the television that only have the audio white and red outputs. Also depending on your connection location, place the soundbar in the auxillary mode.
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Your TV can be programmed to play internal audio( only frim the TV itself) or external audio( to any external audio source) i.e. the sound bar or any external speaker device. If you are using the a fiber optic cable and you have a satellite receiver(Dish, DirecTV, U-verse), run the fiber optic cable from the sound bar fiber optic port to the receiver optic port to have sound come through the sound bar. Have the sound bar on the optic mode and you should be able to hear audio from the TV. Your TV speaker audio can be placed on both internal and external mode at the same time.
1170355
Make sure you have selected the right in-put on the sound bar. Is your connection analog or optical to the sound bar?
1170356
I could not get my rca to do it ether so i run it through the sat rec and it works great
1170357
Did you hook it up with an Optical Cable? I have a 42 inch Samsung and mine works fine using the optical cable. One thing to note is that using the optical cable the volume is controlled by the sound bar not the volume on the TV. You also need to have the Sound Bar set to Optical input. Hope this helps.
1170358
All I can say send it back!!! The one I had started smoking and popping . Never got the chance to hear it.
1170359
If your tv has an optical input, that's the best way to get quality results.
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you can check a few places: 1) make sure the optical audio cable is connected correctly between the TV and the sound bar. Don't forget to remove the end caps on the cable. Don't touch the ends after the caps are removed. It might takes a bit of wiggling to get the ends of the optical cable to go into the TV. 2) Check that your TV is set to output the audio to Digital Audio/SPDIF. On some TVs, like mine, I have the option to output either PCM or RAW. PCM works for this sound bar. 3) There could be a problem with the optical audio cable, especially if it has been pinched.
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I have a 42" TV and it's fine. I guess it would depend if you want the width of the sound bar to match the width of your TV --in that case it wont -- it's worth the price though -- not bad sound for the rec room.
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I have exactly this same setup and problem. No ideas. Samsung mentioned that they don't support PiP, which seems like a ridiculous ideas since we can see video but just not get the audio. Jake
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If your Samsung TV is new, it most likely has ARC support on one of the HDMI inputs. Connected via HDMI ARC (with the TV internal speakers turned off) you should be able to control the volume with your TV remote. My TV (a Vizio) has ARC support and I initially connected the sound bar via HDMI ARC (cable goes from HDMI OUT on soundbar to HDMI ARC IN on TV) and the TV remote controlled the volume in this case. I have since switched to optical connection as I like the interconnectivity options and the way everything functions with my universal remote better with the sound bar connected this way. There is no guarantee it will work even if your TV does have ARC support as implementations from different manufacturers may vary slightly.
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The best option is to connect all to the TV (sound bar and DVD player). Turn volume down on TV and sound bar works great. You can try it the way you're asking but I'm not sure if it will work.
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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 swear that I had a discussion about this (some thread somewhere else) ... either way, my problems have been fixed by switching to another TV (Hannspree 42") i'll try to find the thread and post it here
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I'm not sure but my suggestion to you is to try to find another sound bar cause the sound quality is not that good.
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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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Kevin's measurements are right on. I have a Samsung TV and had difficulty with the sound. The conversation on the TV was not transferring over to the sound bar, only the background sounds in the program came through the sound bar. I purchased a higher quality connection than what came with the unit. The sound bar is now working as expected.
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If you have a single (yellow) digital audio (SPDIF) "out" jack on the TV, that is specifically for a digital audio "in" jack on another component. Pretty much every TV also has red and white audio out jacks. Those are what you connect to the sound bar. Alternatively, many TVs have an optical (Toslink) jack for audio out. I believe that your sound bar has one too. That would be preferable. AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters)
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Safraz, This model does not have an audio output, so connecting your audio bar directly to your cable/sat box or other source device would be recommended. Thanks for your interest in Samsung televisions. --Mr. S
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I don'y know as this is the problem I have had and no answer yet as I have not been able to link it with my Panasonic sound bar. When (and if) I do I will post the fix.
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The back of my sound bar has an "Opt In" for the optical cable, a LAN port (although it connects to Wi-Fi), and an HDMI out to run the same apps which come with the LG TV. We use the Optical cable through the Opt In port. The volume is controlled by the remote that came with the sound bar. We don't use the HDMI port out, there is no "In HDMI" port on the bar. I hope this helps, good luck!
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I had that problem and it was because my tv volume was too low when I set it up. If you turn up your tv volume before you disable the tv speakers it should work. If the soundbar is ringing during silences your tv volume is too loud.
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I had the exact same problem with this tv. I eventually just muted the TV speakers and ran the sound exclusively through some external speakers that I have. That solved my problem.