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Solutions for your electronics! Oh a new look! Ok so you’ve
probably already seen another one of my videos that shows you how to connect different types of
speaker to different types of television inputs. For an all around -much better experience!
And maybe you’re trying to get that better experience BUT
your tv has no RCA or AUX connections.
Even worse, it may not even include the modern optical or HDMI ARC ports.
Leaving you with ZERO ways to get audio out of your tv to external speakers.
And so what are we to do? Well another Channel
may tell you to open up your tv and do some re-wiring to this that and the other
Now much respect to them but that’s not what this channel is about.
Simple Cafe is about simplicity, even if it means having to tell you
that if your tv doesn’t have those audio OUT ports,
then you simply cannot connect external speakers to it.
But, if you happen to be using a separate media device,
Well, now we have some possibilities. if not, maybe this is the good excuse
you were looking for get yourself a new tv? Either way, this may be a good time to bring
out your old dvd player and re-watch some of your favorite movies - with awesome sound!
That’s actually the first solution we’re gonna go over.
How to connect your RCA devices, like a dvd player to both your speakers and TV.
Then we’ll see how to do so with HDMI devices, like video game consoles.
Ok so let’s begin with RCA devices, Such as a dvd players, cable boxes,
and certainly more. See all of these devices have
yellow, red and white ports. The yellow port is for video
The red and white are for left and right audio So there you have it!
What you can do is direct JUST the yellow cable for video over to your tv
And instead of the red and white cable following, you’ll split it over to your
sound system like this if it has RCA ports. Does your sound system only have Aux?
No problem, just use one of these RCA to Aux cables, or a splitter if you prefer!
And just like that you’re golden! At least for when you’re playing content
out of these other devices.
So now what about HDMI-connecting devices? Like a roku or modern game consoles.
How the heck are we supposed to split the video and audio if it’s all in a single HDMI cable?
Well since we don’t wanna tear the cable apart, we’ll need a special device
that will take video and audio signals and split them up for us,
and then let us plug a separate cables to it, one for video and the other for audio.
That special device is an HDMI Audio Extractor.
This is basically a digital to analog converter, of which you may find many, but the type you’re
going to need is unique - don’t worry, here’s a link to it in the description.
The crucial detail you need to look out for when getting one
is that on the OUTPUT side of the converter, You see an HDMI port, along with RCA (or aux).
The thing is most of these converters are designed to simply take a devices HDMI,
which is a digital signal, and convert it to RCA/AV - which is an analog signal.
Now that’s what part of what you want
so you can connect send audio to your speakers, but what about the video?
Here we have the yellow port for that and if your tv has that port, well you’re set.
However you’ll probably want to keep the definition of your video high
And that’s why you’ll wanna verify that your converter has an HDMI port on the
output side - so you can send that video signal over to your tv- in high def. - just like this.
And when it comes to your audio, you can direct it over to your sound system via an RCA to Aux cable.
If your sound system takes RCA, use an RCA to RCA cable.
And what if your sound system takes neither of those?! What if it’s Optical?!
Well! Some of these extractors have will you covered. Just see to it that the one you select
ALSO has the Optical port on the Output side. So there you have it, as seen in these examples,
you can connect your external speakers to a media player, which also connects to your tv!
The only way to get ALL tv’s sound to your external speakers
is having a TV which has audio OUT ports.
So don’t forget the next time you’re in the market for a new TV,
To not just focus on the size, but the ports too! If you can’t find them, you can ask a sales
associate, “which external audio ports does this tv have?”
Just see to it that it has the ports that your sound system has.
Whether that’s RCA or Aux for a straight forward connection.
Or if the tv you want only has Optical or HDMI ARC,
but your sound system DOESN’T, Then you’re gonna need a
Digital to Analog audio converter. Similar to the one we were looking at.
Speaking of which I have lots of videos that go over how to connect these,
so check out my channel to find your connection!
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