TV Audio output

[Dizeee]

I am going to get some speakers and sub for my telly today, and probably some sort of integrated amp to control them all - question is I have just looked at the back of the telly for the phono jacks and instead of one red and white, there are 3 of them. They look red, blue and green but the lighting was poor so I couldnt see brilliantly. Written above them are Pr Pb and Y. Is this the same thing and is this where I run a signal from the TV to the amp?

[Thesaint01708]

No, this is for a video signal - known as 'component'

[Thesaint01708]

what i would recommend is running an optical lead if your new amp supports it from the sky box / dvd / blueray

[Dizeee]

Its a TV with an in built DVD player so I want to run the sound out of the TV into an amp so I can use the speakers for all the audio. The humax doesnt have any lines out so it has to be the TV. Where would the signal come out then? There are 2 HDMI slots and a scart slot...

[HellDiver]

Those are video component inputs, not audio outputs.

You can bodge an audio output using the headphone jack - that's the way I've our temporary TV wired to my amp while the big telly is away being unbroken.

[Dizeee]

Right, this has got me quite annoyed now as it looks like it may not be possible to have any sort of setup on my TV.

I don't have an optical line out, and I don't seem to have any line out that will carry audio into an amp. Here is the back of the TV:





I only have a Humax and an in built TV player, so I want to use an audio out of the TV so I can just have all sound i.e TV and DVD out from one line... The humax doesn't appear to have any lines out either other than a weird looking port that says RC232 or something similar.

This really shouldnt be so difficult. I have had TV to hifi setups all my life so I don't understand why this is proving impossible.

[cjs]

The Scart will have an audio out, you need a Scart/phono adaptor

Similar to this, but you can get them for a couple of quid elsewhere.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/scart-to-phono-out-adaptor...

Make sure you get an OUT rather than an IN. Or they do come with a switch for IN/OUT which are better.

[Dizeee]

cjs said:

The Scart will have an audio out, you need a Scart/phono adaptor

Similar to this, but you can get them for a couple of quid elsewhere.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/scart-to-phono-out-adaptor...

Make sure you get an OUT rather than an IN. Or they do come with a switch for IN/OUT which are better.

Howe do you know the Scart 2 will have an out? Surely it is an input for a Blue Ray player or Playstation for example...? I would hate to buy all the equipment to find that there isn't a line out...

[Dizeee]

I have spent the afternoon investigating this. It appears it is simply not possible for me to run a home cinema system.

My setup at the mo is Aerial into Humax, Humax into TV via scart. I can't identify any other outputs from either the TV or Humax to connect to a home cinema amp.

I have pictured the rear panels of both:


TV:






Humax:







I can't see any way to acheive what I want, but think it is ridiculous that on a modern TV there is no way of simply being able to feed a sound signal to an amp and a set of speakers.

[Dizeee]

One chap in a shop suggested running a signal from the Humax via the VCR Scart terminal into a Scart input on an amplifier enabling the sound to be conveyed. However, a different chap in a different shop disagreed saying that the VCR Scart terminal on the Humax is not an output, but to input a VCR to the Humax.

[Dizeee]

cjs said:

The Scart will have an audio out, you need a Scart/phono adaptor

Similar to this, but you can get them for a couple of quid elsewhere.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/scart-to-phono-out-adaptor...

Make sure you get an OUT rather than an IN. Or they do come with a switch for IN/OUT which are better.

Your the only one to mention this and I am trying to get my head round it... The scarts are both definatley inputs to the TV as you can select which you want to view when it's on. The TV I now learn is extremely basic, not even an optical out, so I would put a lot of money and the scarts being one way only, unless there is something fundamental about scarts that I am unaware of.

[cjs]

Dizeee said:

cjs said:

The Scart will have an audio out, you need a Scart/phono adaptor

Similar to this, but you can get them for a couple of quid elsewhere.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/scart-to-phono-out-adaptor...

Make sure you get an OUT rather than an IN. Or they do come with a switch for IN/OUT which are better.

Your the only one to mention this and I am trying to get my head round it... The scarts are both definatley inputs to the TV as you can select which you want to view when it's on. The TV I now learn is extremely basic, not even an optical out, so I would put a lot of money and the scarts being one way only, unless there is something fundamental about scarts that I am unaware of.

It will work. The adaptors are a couple of quid on Ebay.

[koenig999]

This is what you want

http://www.maplin.co.uk/scart-with-switch-to-scart...

Allows you to plug in the Humax to the TV and take the audio out to the amp.

Koenig

[headcase]

The SCART interface does indeed carry the audio out capability but the TV dosent necessarily use it, in my experience if the TV dosent have a specific audio out connector then it dosent have the relevant circuitry that goes with the audio out functionality. In this case you may find that the audio out on the SCART may be nothing at all or even the audio from the Analogue tuner which isnt much use if your using Freeview. That TV has a headphone socket next to the Aerial input, looks like this is your best bet, your going to need a 3.5mm stereo jack to 2x Phono lead to try it.

ETA, the VCR SCART on the PVR will carry the Audio out from the PVR box. (it has to to enable you to record to tape from the PVR)

Edited by headcase on Sunday 3rd July 20:11