Howard Gibson via Talk said on Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:07:41 -0400
On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:27:19 -0400 Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Howard Gibson via Talk said on Sat, 28 Jun 2025 10:47:12 -0400
I have a computer plugged into my TV, and
I use the stereo as sound output for all. It works quite well.
Where the heck can you still find a TV with a headphone jack?
Steve,
My TV is about ten years old. Its internal speakers are crap. It needs a sound output device. There are few, if any Bluetooth devices that sound as good as my stereo. Are you sure your TV has no sound output jack?
Mine does. I bought a TV prior to this one, a Samsung. It had no headphone jack, but had one of those fiberoptic sound cables that needs a $40 adapter to plug into RCA input jacks, and even after I bought that, it didn't work anyway, because Samsung. My current TV is many years old, it's a piece of crap and I knew I was buying a piece of crap, but at least it has a headphone jack, and those were getting very rare back in those days. You know what salesmen told me? Get a modern receiver with fiber optic audio input. Yeah sure, but a brand new, several hundred dollar receiver, to take the place of my little amp that works just fine, just because the manufacturers removed a twenty five cent headphone jack. Umm, no. Seriously. Look around. Look at the list of inputs and outputs on TVs in a store. Almost none has a headphone jack output listed, because almost none has a headphone jack, because they want to obsolete you into a new receiver. Umm, no. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com