Current setup is a Sony Bravia KD43XE8005 tv, and a Sky+ HD box. We currently don't have a soundbar but are open to buying one for general use, and I use an old laptop with an hdmi cable for projection to the tv.
I bought some Thomson wireless RF headphones for dad so he could listen to tv/music when not in the living room. These work great but the headphone jack is on the back of the tv and is not so easily accessed. If it was left in all the time, it would currently cut sound to the speaker.
Yesterday I connected my laptop and played a video through the tv, and attempted to connect the headphones base station through the headphone out on the laptop, but this attempted solution did not work. That may be because of something I did wrong.
An article on cnet explains that "If your sound bar is connected through either optical or digital outputs, you can leave the wireless headphones connected without interfering with normal audio playback." with the implication that a soundbar connected in the optical out would enable the headphones to be left in the tv 24/7, and that this would also enable me to watch in the room while dad was outside.
Is this correct? And is there an alternative solution that does not require purchasing the soundbar? It would be nice not to have to spend any more albeit the headphones I bought are so cheap that it wouldn't exactly feel like I'd made a mistake; shaking my fist at bad tv design aside.
Submitted April 28, 2018 at 02:49PM by NuclearHyrule https://ift.tt/2FmlJuB
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