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trying to get audio from my laptop to my tv
Sad but true -- my tv speakers are the best that I own. Just bought a
new set, and the sound is far superior to my portable stereo or my crappy little computer speakers. I've been playing cds through the tv speakers via my dvd player, and they sound pretty good. I was wondering if I could do the same via my laptop. I bought an adapter that connects the laptop's headphone jack to the audio jacks (RCA?) on the back of the tv. But I can't hear anything. Am I ignorant of some basic rule of getting sound from a tv? Thanks in advance for your help. Nelson |
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trying to get audio from my laptop to my tv
Nelson wrote:
Sad but true -- my tv speakers are the best that I own. Just bought a new set, and the sound is far superior to my portable stereo or my crappy little computer speakers. I've been playing cds through the tv speakers via my dvd player, and they sound pretty good. I was wondering if I could do the same via my laptop. I bought an adapter that connects the laptop's headphone jack to the audio jacks (RCA?) on the back of the tv. But I can't hear anything. Am I ignorant of some basic rule of getting sound from a tv? Thanks in advance for your help. Nelson Try playing around with your input settings, either in the menu, or with a button like tv/vcr and input. Have you attached your audio jacks to where the DVD player usually plugs in? Or a different set of inputs? Make sure you don't have them connected to an output. Also, what model of TV? It's hard to debug something with so little information Lot's of TV's have more than one input, so it might not be the first one, keep pressing the button and see if more appear. regards, distatica |
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trying to get audio from my laptop to my tv
Thanks distatica.
I did finally get it to work, although my solution might be ass-backwards. I disconnected the dvd player's audio and plugged the laptop into those jacks. Then I turned the dvd player on, without a disc. It works and it sounds pretty good! Only problem is if I want to use the dvd player for its actual purpose, I have to disconnect the audio from the laptop and plug in the dvd audio jacks. Oh well, it's a start... distatica wrote: Nelson wrote: Sad but true -- my tv speakers are the best that I own. Just bought a new set, and the sound is far superior to my portable stereo or my crappy little computer speakers. I've been playing cds through the tv speakers via my dvd player, and they sound pretty good. I was wondering if I could do the same via my laptop. I bought an adapter that connects the laptop's headphone jack to the audio jacks (RCA?) on the back of the tv. But I can't hear anything. Am I ignorant of some basic rule of getting sound from a tv? Thanks in advance for your help. Nelson Try playing around with your input settings, either in the menu, or with a button like tv/vcr and input. Have you attached your audio jacks to where the DVD player usually plugs in? Or a different set of inputs? Make sure you don't have them connected to an output. Also, what model of TV? It's hard to debug something with so little information Lot's of TV's have more than one input, so it might not be the first one, keep pressing the button and see if more appear. regards, distatica |
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