My TV does not have optical or coaxial connections for sound. Can I connect hdmi from my DVD player to the sound bar and then hdmi to my TV.
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This won't work. There is only one hdmi on the sound bar. Its actually a dumb design on Philips part. You also have the option of rca from the tv to the sound bar.
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MY telly has an optical output, I am not sure if it can be hooked up any other way.
2007343
If your trying to feed your TV and sound bar from the DVD Player this will not feed both at the same time, it is a switch. Try going into your TV audio in and then come Audio out of the TV to the input of the sound bar or visa versa. If you do not have enough ins and outs look View HD SPDIF | TOSLINK Digital Optical Audio Splitter 1x3" here on Amazon.
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I checked my sound bar and there are NO HDMI inputs on this unit. It has fiber optic cable connection to the TV. Carl
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Most sound bars support either optical audio or HDMI for best quality configuration. It may be unclear which will provide the best sound. Both optical audio and HDMI support multi-channel audio, like Dolby Digital, but HDMI is capable of transmitting slightly higher quality than optical. In any case, the easiest is to connect either optical audio or HDMI from your TV to sound bar. In summary, always connect the driver output source devices (e.g TV, DVD, Media player, etc.) into the sound bar via optical audio or HDMI (if supported). Avoid the analog connection like RCA cable. Read more : http://www.ehow.com/about_6587109_hdmi-vs_-digital-optical-audio.html
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can i hook up my dvd upconverter surround sound system to the tv with hdmi and connect a optical cable to the ps3 and also a hdmi to the tv from ps3 would that work good?
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The soundbar does not have an HDMI connector. In regards to digital inputs - it does have one optical SPDIF input. There is also a digital coaxial input.
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Yes, that's what this does. I have an HD TV that did not have a plug-in for optical hook-up for my sound bar. I was able to circumvent that using this converter. A very nice piece of equipment. Now my TV drives the sound bar and, with a switch, my DVD/VCR also work the sound bar. Good luck! Hope this helps.
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Either a digital optical or coaxial optical cable. Your TV most certainly has an output for one or both of those, which will connect your TV to soundbar. It should also work to transmit sound to the sound bar from devices plugged into your TV via HDMI(cable box, dvd, Xbox, etc). I have my unit connected with a coaxial digital cable and t sounds great and also has the bonus of not tying up and HDMI input ont TV because I use them all already.
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Actually, I don't agree with BarryLee. I just got the SoundBar, and yes it does connect to the TV via HDMI cables, but that only provides sound for the DVD audio. The TV can connect to the subwoofer via a digital coaxial cable, which is not as good as an HDMI, but still good. Can't figure out if I am going to be able to connect my appleTV to the soundbar.
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Yes you have 2 options. If your TV got a audio output then use that to connect this speakers. If your TV don't have audio output then you need use their AV option (You cannot HDMI)
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HDMI should handle it all - that's the idea. I have HDMI from my BluRay to my Onkyo, and an HDMI from the Onkyo to the HDTV. You could use optical, but should not have to. I use optical to connect the audio from my older DVD player to the Onkyo.
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As long as you have RCA jacks for your audio out on your TV, you can use this sound bar. There is no hdmi input on this sound bar, just RCA and Digital (optical) inputs. Hope this helps!
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If the TV has a HDMI in and the DVD player has HDMI out connect the DVD to the TV via HDMI... use a optical audio cable to connect the DVD to the sound bar if the player has a optical audio out. in this case the item may not be necessary. If your DVD player does not have optical out check to see if the TV has an optical out. If it does connect the TV optical out the the bars optical in. Then all Tv audio will go to the bar. I think I might need more info on your gear to be more specific.
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That's probably not going to work since there is only one output source for the speakers - and those are for the speaker wires. the coax, component video, and optical cable are all inputs, only one hdmi output to connnect to your tv, the rest of the hdmi are all input from your other devices as well. do some search you may find a coax output for speakers, but it may be difficult because a lot of newer receivers are either hdmi, optical, component video and even bluetooth.
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Depending on how you have configured the connection the answer may lie in whether or not you are using a digital optical cable for the out put of the TV to the unit. HDMI is for ingoing signals, but if you are using the TV as a source to amplify then you need to add the digital optical cable from the TV out to the Sound bar in for this cable. If that does not correct the problem, then you may have a defective unit. This cable is not included in the box, but can be purchased for about 10-20 dollars depending where you buy.
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I'm gonna say no. Just plug everything into your TV then use an optical cable to connect the tv to the soundbar. All sounds should play though the soundbar.
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If the DVD had an hdmi port just use an hdmi.cable. Look into an rf modulator if it doesn't.