Connecting a sound-bar to a TV

BYTEr

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Hi all,

The girlfriend has bought a sound-bar, a Panasonic SC-HTP8 and wants to connect it to our TV, a Bush Le-40gcl-a, however we can't get it working, it works fine using bluetooth however.

We've been to Maplin 3 times and tried 3 different cables, an optical cable which didn't have anywhere to connect to the TV, one where it went into the TV's coaxial jack and finally a 3.5mm Stereo jack to twin phono cable which we've connected to our TV's headphone jack which stops the sound coming from the TV however no sound comes from the sound-bar despite it being on TV, we've gone through the TV's settings and changed everything we can in sound but no luck.

Does anyone have any ideas? or recommend what cable we actually need.

Thanks in advance.
 
is the volume up on the soundbar? can you try an ipod/mp3 player connected through the 3.5m jack socket to hear sound?

Also some TVs have an independent volume control for headphones too.+
 
Thanks for the reply, yes we've checked the volume on the sound-bar, muted & un-muted and did the same with the TV volume too.

I couldn't see anything like an independent volume control in the settings, but I'll take another look.
 
BYTEr said:
Hi all,

The girlfriend has bought a sound-bar, a Panasonic SC-HTP8 and wants to connect it to our TV, a Bush Le-40gcl-a, however we can't get it working, it works fine using bluetooth however.

We've been to Maplin 3 times and tried 3 different cables, an optical cable which didn't have anywhere to connect to the TV, one where it went into the TV's coaxial jack and finally a 3.5mm Stereo jack to twin phono cable which we've connected to our TV's headphone jack which stops the sound coming from the TV however no sound comes from the sound-bar despite it being on TV, we've gone through the TV's settings and changed everything we can in sound but no luck.

Does anyone have any ideas? or recommend what cable we actually need.

Thanks in advance.
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To use Digital, I think you would need to get a coaxial to optical adapter; as for the TV headphone jack to phono, I think the TV IS outputting the sound to the soundbar, but you haven't set on the soundbar to "analogue in" as the source (you most likely have to set it manual I doubt it's automatic).
 
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