[yellowtrees]

hi guyss
basically i have a tv in my room that i would like to get some speakers for,
but i don't know if my tv has a "sound output" thing on the back, i know it doesn't have space for an optical cable, anyway this is a picture of the back of my tv, is there anyway i can get sound to come out of speakers i would buy - (would be nice if i could also connect to my laptop when not using tv)


thanks

[mikeyd85]

If there's a headphone jack round the front, that'd work - nothing on the back there for sound output. A decent set of PC speakers should help you out for better sound.
I'd recommend HDMI if your laptop supports it as that carries sound as well as video. Else, the VGA port and a 3.5mm > 3.5mm from the headphone jack on the lappy to the Audio In on that pic would suffice. Unless, of course, you want to use the sound from the laptop.

[Aack]

I can see 3 audio inputs on that picture - the one at the bottom to the bottom left of AV1 is probably your best bet if using PC speakers. Try plugging some headphones into it and see what happens. You might need an adaptor of some sort though.

[mikeyd85]

(Original post by Aack)
I can see 3 audio inputs on that picture - the one at the bottom to the bottom left of AV1 is probably your best bet if using PC speakers. Try plugging some headphones into it and see what happens. You might need an adaptor of some sort though.

Dude. Read what you've just said! they're inputs, not outputs!

[yellowtrees]

(Original post by mikeyd85)
If there's a headphone jack round the front, that'd work - nothing on the back there for sound output. A decent set of PC speakers should help you out for better sound.
I'd recommend HDMI if your laptop supports it as that carries sound as well as video. Else, the VGA port and a 3.5mm > 3.5mm from the headphone jack on the lappy to the Audio In on that pic would suffice. Unless, of course, you want to use the sound from the laptop.

yeah thought there was no sound output, no headphone jack either, guess i'm going to buy speakers just for my laptop then
thanks anyway

[yellowtrees]

(Original post by Aack)
I can see 3 audio inputs on that picture - the one at the bottom to the bottom left of AV1 is probably your best bet if using PC speakers. Try plugging some headphones into it and see what happens. You might need an adaptor of some sort though.

yeah theyre all inputs unfortunately, i put headphones in and it made no difference no sound through headphones sound through tv as usual
thanks anyway though

[mfaxford]

(Original post by yellowtrees)
yeah thought there was no sound output, no headphone jack either, guess i'm going to buy speakers just for my laptop then
thanks anyway

No headphone jack anywhere seems a little odd. That's something TVs have had for ages. It maybe that a headphone jack is somewhere else on the TV.

It's also possible (although a bit unlikely) that there's an audio output on one of the scart sockets. Try reading thev manual or searching google for your tv model.

[AidanLunn]

(Original post by mfaxford)
It's also possible (although a bit unlikely) that there's an audio output on one of the scart sockets. Try reading thev manual or searching google for your tv model.

All SCART sockets I've seen on TVs have output as well as input (it's a primitive way of TV signal distribution and is part of the SCART specification).

SO the SCART, if installed and working properly, will output as well as input, both video and audio.

[H.C. Chinaski]

(Original post by mfaxford)

It's also possible (although a bit unlikely) that there's an audio output on one of the scart sockets. Try reading thev manual or searching google for your tv model.

eh???

I will guarantee that at least one (if not both) the scart sockets have audio out ...



with one of these



The op should be able to do as he wanted ..

[mfaxford]

I know im bringing up an old thread but I thought the results of some experimentation I've done might be of use for other people.

(Original post by AidanLunn)
All SCART sockets I've seen on TVs have output as well as input.

(Original post by H.C. Chinaski)
I will guarantee that at least one (if not both) the scart sockets have audio out ...

On my fairly new samsung tv (D5520) the scart socket does indeed have audio output on it

However it only appears to output fixed level audio from the TV tuner. Also when using a HDMI input the audio doesn't match the picture.

[AidanLunn]

(Original post by mfaxford)
I know im bringing up an old thread but I thought the results of some experimentation I've done might be of use for other people.






On my fairly new samsung tv (D5520) the scart socket does indeed have audio output on it

However it only appears to output fixed level audio from the TV tuner. So when using a HDMI input the audio doesn't match the picture.

That's because you're meant to run it through something else which has its own volume control. A HiFi deck perhaps?

[mfaxford]

(Original post by AidanLunn)
That's because you're meant to run it through something else which has its own volume control. A HiFi deck perhaps?

Not a problem for me I was running it into my mixer. I think I missed part of a word in my previous post and for the more critical part:

The audio out on scart is only audio from the freeview tuner so if you're using a HDMI input the audio coming out the scart socket doesn't match the audio that should be there. This is probably dating back to when this setup would have been used to feed audio/video to a VCR to record that (although I'm not sure if I had a composite video out for the freeview signal)

For me there are two fixes for that. Run seperate audio outs from PVR/ Bluray etc. to the mixer or use the headphone output from the TV instead of the scart.

[AidanLunn]

(Original post by mfaxford)
Not a problem for me I was running it into my mixer. I think I missed part of a word in my previous post and for the more critical part:

The audio out on scart is only audio from the freeview tuner so if you're using a HDMI input the audio coming out the scart socket doesn't match the audio that should be there. This is probably dating back to when this setup would have been used to feed audio/video to a VCR to record that (although I'm not sure if I had a composite video out for the freeview signal)

For me there are two fixes for that. Run seperate audio outs from PVR/ Bluray etc. to the mixer or use the headphone output from the TV instead of the scart.

*all* Freeview boxes have to output composite because comp video has been pretty much the standard in one form or another since TV began. However not all output component or RGB.