Vodafone TV (Gen 2) to Home Theatre

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Kickinbac

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#270569 15-May-2020 11:40

I've just got a Vodafone TV and wanting to know how people have got on with connecting it to their home theatre systems as it only has HDMI for sound.

My home theatre amp does not have HDMI connections and I've been working around this issue for a while. I've used optical out on Apple TV (gen 3), MySky and Xbox to get my surround sound.

It would seem I am going to have to upgrade my receiver.

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#2484345 15-May-2020 11:45

How old is your TV? Some TVs will pass through audio from HDMI inputs to optical out. Not all will, but some will.

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#2484348 15-May-2020 11:52

The cheap solution to this is an HDMI audio extractor: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33050616116.html

The expensive option is to upgrade your receiver.

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Kickinbac

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#2484618 15-May-2020 18:55

Senecio:
How old is your TV? Some TVs will pass through audio from HDMI inputs to optical out. Not all will, but some will.

About 4 years old. Thanks, I will investigate.

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#2484625 15-May-2020 19:13

Andib:
The cheap solution to this is an HDMI audio extractor: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33050616116.html

The expensive option is to upgrade your receiver.

I haven’t seen this, I will try this if previous suggestion for TV pass through doesn’t work.

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#2484640 15-May-2020 19:50

Replace av receiver. How have you not upgraded yet? Hdmi been around for over 10 years now...

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Kickinbac

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#2485139 17-May-2020 10:59

Kickinbac:
Senecio:
How old is your TV? Some TVs will pass through audio from HDMI inputs to optical out. Not all will, but some will.

About 4 years old. Thanks, I will investigate.

Have been playing around with this on a quiet Sunday morning. This works but only getting a dolby prologic II signal but watching Top Gun on catchup.