New Telly Without A Headphone socket.
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i bought a telly for my bedroom. Its a samsung LE32B450. Because my partner works night shift i wear headphones so as not to disturb him. They.re quite old Panasonic cordless phones but work perfectly. When we went to wire up the telly today there is a socket for everything but my phones. The jack on the headphones base unit fits the PC/DVI AUDIO IN socket but they don't work. Anybody suggest anything or will i have to do without. Many thanks for any advice good or bad.
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http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/tv-audio-video/television/lcd-tv/LE32B450C4WXXC/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=specification
You will have to get your partner to wear the headphones so he can't hear the sound.
it doesn't have phono out. I have my surround sound plugged in but thats the only sound out i can see. Thanks for answering.
there is one audio out which the surround sound is plugged into. There is another audio thing that looks exactly the same cept it doesn't say out. That doesn't have anything plugged into it. It says on the instructions thats component in. *connect rca audio cables to R-audio-L on the rear of your set and the other ends to corresponding audio out connectors on the DVT or DVD. Its all double dutch to me :-(
haha. I like the way your mind works. Can't believe i paid a wee bit extra to get a telly with a better name and its not got the one feature i use most!! I don't even use my surround sound. Hmph.
i think i get what you mean. An adapter that my single connector jack from my headphones plugs into to change it to have the red and white plugs. Not explaining myself very well. Not very technically minded i.m afraid lol. Will that mean unplugging my surround sound which i don't really mind.
The best thing is to give the model numbers of everything, the headphones, the TV and the surround sound system.
Here's a review of the TV with a picture of the back connections:
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/samsung-le32b450-le32b450c-20090625155.htm
The problem with a phono-to-headphone-socket adapter is that the TV remote control probably does not change the volume on the phono sockets.
The headphones will probably have a volume control on themselves though.
thats the telly. I found that site last night when looking for ideas what to do. The surround sound is a very basic goodmans ghc 35 with no headphone socket and the headphones panasonic rp we930t. They have a volume control on them. I googled them last night and found nothing.
Thats sound input only, exactly the opposite of what you want.
As said, the surround receiver/amp should have the headphone/component output you want...
course it might not, some of the cheap home theater in a box all in one recievers are pretty damn cut rate, so it might have the headphone out and more left out.
I can't find any proper details on them though.
The thing is that the volume from TV out [phono] sockets is less than you get from a normal headphone socket.
An adapter to change the [phono] socket to headphone socket will work, but the volume might be quite low on the headphones.
If that happens then maybe an old stereo system (with a headphone socket) could be plugged into the [phono] sockets on the TV, and then the headphone base unit plugged into the stereo system.
However!, it's possible that these headphones are designed to work with either the high volume from a headphone socket or the low volume from the [phono] socket. They might do it automatically or there might be a switch on the base unit.
That's likely actually.
A review of the probably identical RP-WF930-s says they come with an adapter to work with "aux" (that's phono) and the person says they work well.
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-RP-WF930-S-900-Wireless-Headphones/product-reviews/B0002ICGCK
Is the type needed. It will probably work fine.
The TV volume will need to be turned right down or muted (as long as mute does not put an icon on screen.)
I got caught out buying a Samsung TV last year and realising it didnt have a headphone socket... after i'd set the whole tv up !!
i promptly returned it to Comet in disgust lol.
what the hell are Samsung thinking not adding a headphone socket to a TV. they had them in the 60's for crying out loud.
i think most highstreet shops allow 28 days to return.
also if you bought online you have more rights under the distant selling regs. as your not present at point of sale you get so many days to return.
i think they like stuff returned in the original packaging ect.
It must depend on the model, I have a 26" 4 year old Samsung in the bedroom and a 2 year old 40" in the linvingroom and both have a headphone socket.
ah well see. Partner took the packing to his work last night to go in the skip. The cats, i have 6, went to play in the box so i left it in the lounge. They have shredded some of it today while i was out and to add insult to injury one of them went in it and was sick. :-(. Ba**ards.
i know. Its plain stupid. I.ve never had a telly without headphones for years!! I.m just gonna keep it and use my headphones in the livingroom telly.
Thats generally a good design to auto shut off the speakers when a headphone is plugged in. Its easier than going through tv menus. The scenario you are talking about is just too rare to really count.
The thing to do there is what the OP will have to end up doing, plug a wireless headphone base unit into the "phono" out sockets on the back of the TV and use the volume on the headphones.
The TV sound will be uneffected, but can be turned down if needed.
No, Samsung have just not thought this through properly leading people to have to look for the sort of workarounds already suggested on this thread. For example I have two audio feeds from my PVRs to my AV amp (which has its own front panel headphone socket). One which goes through the TV and one which bypasses the TV and goes straight to the amp. I also have a third audio feed from the PVRs to my hi-amp and speakers (better for music programmes). This gives me all the flexibility I need but possibly too complicated and confusing for the average user.