spdif to digital?? I want to connect this tv to my Blu ray/surround sound system. Problem is my combo system has a digital output but this tv has something called spdif...? Help!
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I'm assuming your surround doesn't have HDMI, which carries sound and picture? SPDIF just carries the sound (no picture). For picture, you can use just the yellow RCA, or Red/Green/Blue component jacks. For audio, you can use white and red(left and right speaker), SPDIF, or the jack that says DVI/PC audio in which is 3.5 mm or 1/8".
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The Monoprice DVI & S/PDIF Digital Coax/Optical Toslink Audio to HDMI Converter is designed to take optical as one of the inputs and produce HDMI output so I don't think it's going to solve your application. Have a look at the J-Tech Digital Premium Quality HDMI to HDMI + Audio (SPDIF + 3.5mm Stereo) Audio Extractor Converter (JTDAT5CH). It will take HDMI as an input and generate optical out as one of the options.
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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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Sandra, Many of today's quality Audio Bars will have a digital optical audio port, and this television has an audio output that supports it. There are so many options available, do you have any specifications that you're looking for? --Mr. S
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Tc electronic stopped making the nova system with the spdif digital in/out sometime in 2011, I believe. They were unable to get the right parts to do it at their level of quality was the reasoning. I'm guessing it doesn't have it, mine that I bought doesn't have it (I got it a while ago refurbished B-stock. I would contact any sellers directly to double check that it does or does not have spdif.
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I didn't play with it enough to see if the Bluray INPUTS sounds from the HDMI. (I believe the HDMI is for output.) The optical digital is easy to pipe any sound that would normally be coming out of the TV into the bluray. ie VCR, Wii, laptop. Set the bluray on "TV" and it plays whatever the TV speakers would be playing. (I'll have to check if there is an "HDMI input" mode on the Bluray.)-Will
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the little "base" as some have called is actually a receiver. a limited one as far as inputs go but a receiver nonetheless. that is why it can decode the straight Dolby Digital and DTS signals through the SPDIF RCA and Optical jacks.not only that, but hooking up another receiver to it is quite redundant and unnecessary unless you need a lot of hookups.if your 'other' receiver has a digital output it will simply pass thru what is given to it.if you use the 3.5mm audio jacks you will have a slight reduction in quality, because of the middle man (control pad / receiver) and analog signal. the little "base" as some have called is actually a receiver. a limited one as far as inputs go but a receiver nonetheless. that is why it can decode the straight Dolby Digital and DTS signals through the SPDIF RCA and Optical jacks.not only that, but hooking up another receiver to it is quite redundant and unnecessary unless you need a lot of hookups.if your 'other' receiver has a digital output it will simply pass thru what is given to it.if you use the 3.5mm audio jacks you will have a slight reduction in quality, because of the middle man (control pad /... » Read More the little "base" as some have called is actually a receiver. a limited one as far as inputs go but a receiver nonetheless. that is why it can decode the straight Dolby Digital and DTS signals through the SPDIF RCA and Optical jacks.not only that, but hooking up another receiver to it is quite redundant and unnecessary unless you need a lot of hookups.if your 'other' receiver has a digital output it will simply pass thru what is given to it.if you use the 3.5mm audio jacks you will have a slight reduction in quality, because of the middle man (control pad / receiver) and analog signal. « Show Less
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The sound options need to be, "Audio Out" instead of TV Speakers, and change the "Variable" to "Fixed". This got the SPDIF cable working on my KDL-46EX520. I'd imagine your settings are very similar.
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The Titanium HD can output a digitally encoded multichannel signal through SPDIF out. You have to enable either the DTS or Dolby encoder, and in Windows you probably need to set your sound device to "Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)" and configure it to 5.1 surround.
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No, you must get some type of adapter, i.e. bluetooth dongle. There are ones with digital optical outputs that use Apt-x, which is a format for very good digital sound. I am going to get this TV but I'm disappointed that it's not Bluetooth enabled.
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No. The only inputs are the three component inputs, and your choice of spdif inputs (optical or "coax" sound). You'd need some sort of tuner to convert the signal from the coax cable, like a set-top box. There are other devices around that do that, but this isn't one of them. I have a Yamaha stereo receiver with hdmi inputs and one hdmi output. This little device lets me connect an old Panasonic DVR with a component output to the Yamaha, and then just switch devices on the TV with the Yamaha remote (media pc, blu-ray player, DVR).
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Personally didn't use the SPDIF for more than stereo connection but it states "Support 2CH / 5.1CH SPDIF Optical"
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Yes this converts up to 3 Analog/digital Signals to 1 Analog/Digital source. I used this for a Bose Cinemate Sounbar since the aux would override the default Optical in. Hooked a 400 CD Disk changer up to switcher 2channel audio Hooked up Blu-Ray using optical Toslink Hooked up DirectTV digital box using optical Toslink Outputed 1 Digital Optical Toslink to soundbar, and based on what I want to listen to I just hit Source 1,2 or 3 and it swaps to that source.
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If I am watching a channel on my TV, how does the audio get to the surround sound system? Through HDMI or through Optical Audio? Do I need to connect an HDMI Imput cable? Thanks.
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ihave hdtv with directv have hdmi cable from directv to tv then digital optical cable out to surround sound.turn vtv volume down turn up sorround sound upo all the way and now can control sorround sound volume from tv. only problem is now i dont get dolby digital out of sorround sound and is only half as loud as if i hooked digital optical strait from drectv to sorround sound. why is this?
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Looks like you only have digital audio out so you will need to buy Orei DA21 Optical SPDIF/Coaxial Digital to RCA or other converter. The Orei is what I bought and it works great.
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Yes this converts up to 3 Analog/digital Signals to 1 Analog/Digital source. I used this for a Bose Cinemate Sounbar since the aux would override the default Optical in. Hooked a 400 CD Disk changer up to switcher 2channel audio Hooked up Blu-Ray using optical Toslink Hooked up DirectTV digital box using optical ToslinkOutputed 1 Digital Optical Toslink to soundbar, and based on what I want to listen to I just hit Source 1,2 or 3 and it swaps to that source.