HDMI Audio Extractor with Optical Out.

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Does anyone know where I can buy one of these? Neither my aging plasma TV nor my Apple TV have optical out. I am currently using the headphone jack of my TV to send audio to my sound system, but that causes an annoying 50Hz buzz from the speakers.

Or maybe I should just get a new television...
 
Russell S said:
Does anyone know where I can buy one of these? Neither my aging plasma TV nor my Apple TV have optical out. I am currently using the headphone jack of my TV to send audio to my sound system, but that causes an annoying 50Hz buzz from the speakers.

Or maybe I should just get a new television...
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Try HDCabling.co.za

But the Apple TV does have Optical Out.

Or did you buy an Apple TV 4K without having a modern 4K TV?
 
I vote to get a new television. I struggled with this for a while and eventually just upgraded my TV to one with optical. Thing is even if you get the ATV4 to be the audio source it won't work if you use another HDMI source on the TV. E.g. playing games will use the TV's default speakers.

Russell S said:
No it doesn't
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It doesn't have optical out but the 3.5mm jack is actually coaxial which can run 5.1. You can use a coaxial to toslink cable to get 5.1 sound from your system via the ATV4. I actually have a spare one if you want it.
 
I'm thinking I might just spoil myself with an OLED TV in the new year. Although my Logik plasma has served me well with picture quality, it is very dated now...
 
cerebus said:
I vote to get a new television. I struggled with this for a while and eventually just upgraded my TV to one with optical. Thing is even if you get the ATV4 to be the audio source it won't work if you use another HDMI source on the TV. E.g. playing games will use the TV's default speakers.

It doesn't have optical out but the 3.5mm jack is actually coaxial which can run 5.1. You can use a coaxial to toslink cable to get 5.1 sound from your system via the ATV4. I actually have a spare one if you want it.
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Thanks cerebus, I am thinking just that. The main issue is the annoying 50hz buzz from the speakers when I use the headphone jack in the TV!
 
Russell S said:
Please help me understand this. How are you meant to get sound to the soundbar or sound system from the HDMI?
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Buy one that has HDMI in the first place?

Then use the ARC function.

But if you have a very old tv and a new sound part you are going to hit the technology over time division.
 
cerebus said:
I vote to get a new television. I struggled with this for a while and eventually just upgraded my TV to one with optical. Thing is even if you get the ATV4 to be the audio source it won't work if you use another HDMI source on the TV. E.g. playing games will use the TV's default speakers.
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Huh?

There is no need for optical with a modern tv and HDMI based sound system.

What do you mean with another source it won’t work?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Huh?

There is no need for optical with a modern tv and HDMI based sound system.

What do you mean with another source it won’t work?
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A lot of TVs don't have ARC HDMI, so if you have multiple devices plugged into different HDMI or other ports they will use the TV's own speakers. If you do have ARC it's not a problem. Having an optical or coaxial port on the TV allows you to route all sound to the speaker system.
 
cerebus said:
A lot of TVs don't have ARC HDMI, so if you have multiple devices plugged into different HDMI or other ports they will use the TV's own speakers. If you do have ARC it's not a problem. Having an optical or coaxial port on the TV allows you to route all sound to the speaker system.
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I don’t know of a single modern tv that doesn’t have ARC.

But I do know plenty of people who don’t know how it works and therefore skip it’s use.

And I would apply that to almost anything manufactured in the last three years.

Sure if you have older tech it’s a different story, but you did advocate buying a new TV which is why the comment didn’t make sense.

Also the optical output doesn’t support anything but stereo output so is generally a wasted effort anyway and it would be better to “go direct” to your sound system anyway.
 
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