On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 03:39:02 -0400 Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
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.
Steve, I am doing something here that has to be fairly common. I bought a cheap desktop, and I installed it next to my TV and stereo. I watch YouTube and Netflix. I connected the computer's HDMI to my TV. I connected my TV audio to my receiver. I wish my TV were a bit bigger, but otherise, I have excellent sound. I have a now uncommon problem. I have about 600 LPs sitting around, and I am digitizing them for my car. That means plugging the auxiliary sound output to my computer. For some reason, my headphone jack does terrible sound. I have had the stereo for 45 years, and I have never owned headphones. Corrosion? -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson