To work on tv

jayz395 · 24 Nov 2015 at 09:19

Hi all, I have not long built a new powerful system originally for editing photos, book work, I built it so I could also play games but turns out I don't like playing them on the monitor. I'd prefer to play them on my tv like my ps4, I can get picture working on my tv via long hdmi cable, if I bought a sound card and long optical lead to plug into my surround sound that should sort the sound in guessing?

Threepwood · 24 Nov 2015 at 11:07

Hdmi can deliver sound, have you tried changing the computers sound output to output to the tv?

Avenged7Fold · 24 Nov 2015 at 11:37

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As above, HDMI delivers audio and video.

Type in 'Sound' in the search bar and set the default device to HDMI. Make a shortcut on the desktop if you end up switching sounds a lot.

jayz395 · 24 Nov 2015 at 12:05

Will the sound run thu the hdmi cable from my graphics card then? Will it be 5.1?

Avenged7Fold · 24 Nov 2015 at 12:23

HDMI 1.3 was released June 22, 2006 and increased the single-link bandwidth to 340 MHz (10.2 Gbit/s). It optionally allows deep color, with 30-bit, 36-bit and 48-bit xvYCC, sRGB, or YCbCr, compared to 24-bit sRGB or YCbCr in previous HDMI versions. It also optionally allows output of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio streams for external decoding by AV receivers.

jayz395 · 24 Nov 2015 at 13:16

I'll try that when I get home thanks, was abit hastey this morning buying a sound card