Audio Out on my LG DVD / Blue Ray
Discussion
I am very good at how to connect up and wire TV and audio, but I am unsure of whether to splash out on an HDMI cable for the following. Pretty sure it won't work.
My TV has zero sound out options other than the headphone jack which I am currently using to run a soundbar. As a result the audio is insufficiently powerful and struggles, I need an optical / phono / HDMI connection but have none of these from the TV.
My LG DVD / Blue Ray player only has the plug to power it from the wall, and one HDMI out which is required to connect it to the TV so I have the same issue with this. Consequently all sound comes from the TV via headphone jack so it distorts and implodes on load parts of any movie. (it's definitely the headphone connection as I have tested it).
On the front of my LG player I also have another socket which looks to me like a USB, and am pretty sure it is. Am I right in thinking this is an "IN" only allowing you to view pictures on the player, and cannot be used as an "OUT" to at least run decent sound into the soundbar from my player?
Until I get a decent TV with optical or separate HDMI out I am screwed.
My TV has zero sound out options other than the headphone jack which I am currently using to run a soundbar. As a result the audio is insufficiently powerful and struggles, I need an optical / phono / HDMI connection but have none of these from the TV.
My LG DVD / Blue Ray player only has the plug to power it from the wall, and one HDMI out which is required to connect it to the TV so I have the same issue with this. Consequently all sound comes from the TV via headphone jack so it distorts and implodes on load parts of any movie. (it's definitely the headphone connection as I have tested it).
On the front of my LG player I also have another socket which looks to me like a USB, and am pretty sure it is. Am I right in thinking this is an "IN" only allowing you to view pictures on the player, and cannot be used as an "OUT" to at least run decent sound into the soundbar from my player?
Until I get a decent TV with optical or separate HDMI out I am screwed.
What model is the LG?
Very unusual not to have a digi out for audio.
Personally, I'd change it for a suitable player from the likes of Sony or Panasonic - lightly used examples are available around £40 and will give a toslink or coax digital out to connect to your sound bar.
Example (when Sony made good players rather than the cheap plastic knocked out nowadays):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-BDP-S550-Blu-Ray-Pl...
Very unusual not to have a digi out for audio.
Personally, I'd change it for a suitable player from the likes of Sony or Panasonic - lightly used examples are available around £40 and will give a toslink or coax digital out to connect to your sound bar.
Example (when Sony made good players rather than the cheap plastic knocked out nowadays):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-BDP-S550-Blu-Ray-Pl...
I used to have a whole load of high end hi fi but that's all been sacrificed now for other stuff. The soundbar and box is more than sufficient for my needs and actually sounds impressive, but I just want to make it work as it should, at the moment it is a pretty pointless asset as the headphone output is w
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The LG model is this, or identical to : http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2...
I use a Humax freeview, which has an HDMI out and I think a phono out, however, there is no phono in on the bar and also the freeview sound is itself flawed, so not fussed about that so much, I used to find with the old system, that was connected via HDMI both ways to my old DVD player, it sounded epic. The Humax aerial could never come to close and everything from it sounds like a cassette tape in comparison.
k.The LG model is this, or identical to : http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2...
I use a Humax freeview, which has an HDMI out and I think a phono out, however, there is no phono in on the bar and also the freeview sound is itself flawed, so not fussed about that so much, I used to find with the old system, that was connected via HDMI both ways to my old DVD player, it sounded epic. The Humax aerial could never come to close and everything from it sounds like a cassette tape in comparison.
hornetrider said:
Bin the humax then. You need something with a digital optical out.
Al the HUMAX boxes i have have Audio Phono's and SP/DIF Digital out's although some are Optical only. You see more and more "low end" Blu Ray players with only an HDMI output. What you need is an amp or soundbar with multiple HDMI inputs and Output so you can plug in the HDMI's into it and select which to listen to on the output. This would seem to fit the billhttp://www.richersounds.com/product/soundbars-soun...
Magic919 said:
HDMI audio extractor would probably be the simplest way.
Maybe something like this..http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neet®-Converter-Extra...
Magic919 said:
HDMI audio extractor would probably be the simplest way.
Maybe something like this..http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neet®-Converter-Extra...
No to hand, but it is a fairly cheap and cheerful Tesco's "Technica" bought in 2009 and when even I bought it the techonology was old at the time. I showed a picture of the back of it to a chap in Curries when I bought the soundbar and he was amazed saying he hadn't seen technology that old for a long time.
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