Audio Outputs Will this TV be able to be hooked up to an old receiver with RCA cables (red & white)? If not, does anyone have a recommendation for a receiver that will work?
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Yes, that is how I have my TV set up. One end of the cable is 1/8" headphone male (TV end), and the other end are RCA male plugs (receiver end).
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Non digital tv- picture? If it has a female VGA port then it should work. The red and white is for a separate sound output. So like speakers. You can also get av to aux 3.5mm cord.
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only tv I have found it works with was an older model flat screen tv my room mate has. my advice would be to return it or sell it as used and buy a sound bar with optical out as an option. newer tvs no longer use the old red and white audio in option.
1003364
No receiver it uses RCA input on TV and the picture quality is very poor. I sent all mine back.
2063959
The cable is actually for sound and few TV's have the RCA jacks. You would need to check your TV. The RCA is the White and Red end. To use the RCA jack most go through a stereo receiver.
1900857
Thanks for your purchase! You can use the RCA outputs from your TV only if the volume for those outputs can be turned up and down (variable output). Otherwise you will need a preamplifier in between to control the volume.
867002
Yes, I have an older TV I recently connected. Works very well and the sound is great!
314401
Ok, there is another kind of digital cable connection you can use if your tv has that... Otherwise, the unit should come with a rca y connection where you connect a red and white to your tv and the other end is one black rca cable that goes into the back of the unit on the far left side. If you do not have a rca Y connector than try to connect either the red or the white wire only to the back of the unit where it says analog in.. That means the unit only has a mono rca connection on the far left side of the unit where it says analog in.
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No. The unit only has s-video and red white, audio and yellow video RCA output. You need a RF converter to put connect to your tv.
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No, it did not work for me. HDMI is diigital and component RCA is analog. They are incompatible. I was trying to connect my PC to a TV that does not have HDMI input. There is a small chance that if your HDMI source is a computer you may be able to change the computer HDMI output to analog but my understanding is that there are few computers that have the capability. My TV does have a DVI input so I bought a HDMI to DVI cable for the video. Then I use a separate cable from the PC headphone output to get the audio. That does work.
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does your t.v. have rca output for sound (red and white ports)? if so, you could get a 3.5mm male to RCA stereo cable and plug the T.V. directly to the speakers. And yes, your hypothetical set up should work (don't know about the good sound part), but you'd probably still need the cable that I mentioned (if a cable box is anything like my direcTV box or a Roku box, there won't be a 3.5mm output there either)
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Look for audio Left and Right channel outputs (red and white) on the back of the TV, if it has them. Some TVs only have inputs like this (not outputs - out will be clearly labelled if you have them), which won't help. If your TV has these outputs, you can connect them to any input on the back of your Sony receiver. However, even then it may not provide sound for sources connected to the TV (Sat, Cable, Disc) which are connected to your TV using HDMI cables. You could try using a headphone output on the TV plugged into the 3.5mm mini-jack on the back of the Sony, which would work with all sources connected to the TV. To try this just order a stereo connection cable with male 3.5mm plugs on each end. You'd have to turn the volume up some on both the TV and Sony receiver until you find the volume setting that gives you enough range to then control with the Sony remote. Another way would be to use RCA out jacks from the Source device itself, whether that is a cable/sat box or disc player. Then you have to switch audio separately from video on the TV, which can be confusing for some. The underlying issue here is that stereo receivers lack HDMI connections, which combine sound and picture with one cable.
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you could get a $10 ish converter box to take the optical to rca digital, I've had to do that for my audio receiver as it came with more rca digital, than optical, and HDMI was yet to include audio pass through at the time.
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You get audio out from the RCA (red-white plugs). That means you can plug in any HDMI source (like your Satellite or DVD player), and you can listen to ONLY the audio portion from the HDMI. Not sure what you mean by Channel-compatible? Red-white outputs are simply left channel right channel sound.
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The device converts the digital audio out of the tv, to regular RCA "red" and "white" connections. Whatever could normally be connected to regular RCA red and white connections, can be connected to the RCA read and white connections from the device.
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You need a spare "video out" from somewhere to make it work (the typical yellow, red and white rca plug combination). Either from the cable box, or maybe if you have a surround sound system it could have more than one output. I guess if your tv has a video out block that would work, though I don't think that's typical to have that.
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This unit only has HDMI out - not even SPDIF or optical. Regardless of what cable accessories are available at Radio Shack or anywhere else, you absolutely cannot connect it to anything but an HDMI TV or A/V receiver. Even a DVI/HDMI cable would be useless because you would have no audio. Sorry to say but as time goes on, you will find it very difficult to purchase components for older TVs anywhere except from second hand shops or garage sales.