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Headphones for digital TV?
I wonder if anyone can help with a problem I've encountered.
I've recently bought my first digital TV and it has no standard headphone jack. My husband has been advised that it isn't possible to use headphones with a digital TV because it would require digital to analogue conversion......therefore no digital TV has a h/p jack. Does anyone know if this is true? And if so, is there a solution? |
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I wonder if anyone can help with a problem I've encountered.
I've recently bought my first digital TV and it has no standard headphone jack. My husband has been advised that it isn't possible to use headphones with a digital TV because it would require digital to analogue conversion......therefore no digital TV has a h/p jack. Does anyone know if this is true? And if so, is there a solution? Solution - connect TV audio out to amplifier audio in, turn audio down on TV, plug headphones into amplifier, turn speakers off and headphones up on amp. TVs without headphone sockets isn't a new phenomenon. I've currently got three TVs, oldest is a 28" 4:3 CRT from mid-nineties, and that hasn't got a headphone socket. And this came out a long time before "digital" television did. Neither has my 32" widescreen CRT. But my new 32" LCD digital TV does have headphones. |
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Thanks Broadz.
Sounds a bit long winded but is that's what we have to do, so be it! Just out of interest, what make is your 32" digital? |
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Are you sure its not hidden,behind a panel at the front or sides?
If you post the Make and model,maybe someone can help with the specifics. Even the earliest Integrated Digital Tv's have a headphone socket. |
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Are you sure its not hidden,behind a panel at the front or sides?
If you post the Make and model,maybe someone can help with the specifics. Even the earliest Integrated Digital Tv's have a headphone socket. They said "......you would have to find a connector to fit one end of your headphone to the digital audio out socket"....but offer no suggestions of where to get such a connecter! Its an LG LCD 37LY95 |
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My husband has been advised that it isn't possible to use headphones with a digital TV because it would require digital to analogue conversion.
BTW plugging headphones into a digital output won't work! You will need to take the L&R audio output of the TV (there might be a special socket for it or it might be available through a SCART socket) to an audio input of an amplifier and then use the headphones with the amplifier. If the TV has a digital audio output and your amp has a digital audio input then you can use that instead. However note that some audio sockets are dual purpose, i.e. they can be a normal analogue sockets but with an optical device in the middle. So it might be possible that you can get analogue audio out from a digital socket. You will have to check your TV manual to see what you can plug into it. |
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The Digital bit of a Digital TV refers to the fact that it can receive digital broadcasts via the aerial as well as analogue ones and the analogue and digital signals connected through its video sockets. It has nothing to do with a lack of headphone socket, the audio has to be converted from digital anyway for digital TV broadcasts in order to play from the loudspeakers, or perhaps this person thinks that Digital TVs have some sort of special digital loudspeaker in them.
BTW plugging headphones into a digital output won't work! You will need to take the L&R audio output of the TV (there might be a special socket for it or it might be available through a SCART socket) to an audio input of an amplifier and then use the headphones with the amplifier. If the TV has a digital audio output and your amp has a digital audio input then you can use that instead. However note that some audio sockets are dual purpose, i.e. they can be a normal analogue sockets but with an optical device in the middle. So it might be possible that you can get analogue audio out from a digital socket. You will have to check your TV manual to see what you can plug into it. |
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If your LG TV is anything like mine it will not have any form of Headphone connector on it.
It does however have a pair of phono sockets on the back labelled Variable Audio Out which you could feed to a HiFi amp and speakers. This output is controlled by the remote's volume control along with the speakers built into the TV. However buried in the menus of the TV is an option to turn off the speakers. Don't use the MUTE button on the remote as that also mutes this output! You can then plug a pair of headphones into the HiFi amp as and when you want a bit of private listening. The alternative if you don't have a HiFi and only need to use headphones occasionaly is to by a small headphone amplifier such as this... http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/level5/mo...cpc/251636.xml Trouble is you would have to dive into the TV menu to kill the speakers every time you wanted to use it. |
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Thanks for the suggestion. As someone who is hard-of hearing I'm sure this would be a useful post for many people.However isn't that item a tad pricey for what it is? You could probably get a half-decent amp on ebay or the local classifieds for not much more than that. |
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