Digital stereo audio to 'old analog stereo'?

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Is there an adapter one can purchase so one can use older stereo equipment
with a new flat screen digital TV? My new TV only has 'digital audio out',
a single plug that I imagine is a 3 conductor type, but I'm guessing.
.. . . .any enlightenmet on this I would sure appreciate. . ..thanks chas.
 
In article <hjRZr.412$u87.74@newsfe02.iad>,
"chas" <footboarder@bresnan.net> wrote:

Is there an adapter one can purchase so one can use older stereo equipment
with a new flat screen digital TV? My new TV only has 'digital audio out',
a single plug that I imagine is a 3 conductor type, but I'm guessing.
. . . .any enlightenmet on this I would sure appreciate. . ..thanks chas.
Click to expand...
Has it got a headphone output jack as well? Most do. If so for that
there is a simple adapter. (1/8" mini stereo plug to 2x RCA plug - $2-6
or higher if you want to be ripped off - there's always someone willing
to rip you off in the audio market.)

The digital out is (IIRC) just two conductors carrying a datastream. The
"adapter' for it would be something that reads the datastream and has
digital to audio converters. Which is halfway to a new receiver, so I
doubt there's anything cost effective in an adapter, due to volume (many
more receivers made than adapters, economies of scale, etc.)

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In article
<MyNameForward-D653EF.19153724082012@news.eternal-september.org>,
Ecnerwal <MyNameForward@ReplaceWithMyVices.Com.invalid> wrote:

In article <hjRZr.412$u87.74@newsfe02.iad>,
"chas" <footboarder@bresnan.net> wrote:

Is there an adapter one can purchase so one can use older stereo equipment
with a new flat screen digital TV? My new TV only has 'digital audio out',
a single plug that I imagine is a 3 conductor type, but I'm guessing.
. . . .any enlightenmet on this I would sure appreciate. . ..thanks chas.

Has it got a headphone output jack as well? Most do. If so for that
there is a simple adapter. (1/8" mini stereo plug to 2x RCA plug - $2-6
or higher if you want to be ripped off - there's always someone willing
to rip you off in the audio market.)

The digital out is (IIRC) just two conductors carrying a datastream. The
"adapter' for it would be something that reads the datastream and has
digital to audio converters. Which is halfway to a new receiver, so I
doubt there's anything cost effective in an adapter, due to volume (many
more receivers made than adapters, economies of scale, etc.)
Click to expand...
Or, some of them have optical digital out - ie, it's (cheap plastic)
fiber optic datastream...

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Ecnerwal wrote:
In article <hjRZr.412$u87.74@newsfe02.iad>,
"chas" <footboarder@bresnan.net> wrote:

Is there an adapter one can purchase so one can use older stereo equipment
with a new flat screen digital TV? My new TV only has 'digital audio out',
a single plug that I imagine is a 3 conductor type, but I'm guessing.
. . . .any enlightenmet on this I would sure appreciate. . ..thanks chas.

Has it got a headphone output jack as well? Most do. If so for that
there is a simple adapter. (1/8" mini stereo plug to 2x RCA plug - $2-6
or higher if you want to be ripped off - there's always someone willing
to rip you off in the audio market.)

The digital out is (IIRC) just two conductors carrying a datastream. The
"adapter' for it would be something that reads the datastream and has
digital to audio converters. Which is halfway to a new receiver, so I
doubt there's anything cost effective in an adapter, due to volume (many
more receivers made than adapters, economies of scale, etc.)
Click to expand...

How about digital computer speakers?
 
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:17:15 -0600, "chas" <footboarder@bresnan.net>
wrote:

Is there an adapter one can purchase so one can use older stereo equipment
with a new flat screen digital TV? My new TV only has 'digital audio out',
a single plug that I imagine is a 3 conductor type, but I'm guessing.
. . . .any enlightenmet on this I would sure appreciate. . ..thanks chas.
Click to expand...
I'm in that boat myself. It's cheaper just to buy a new system.

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On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:49:31 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:17:15 -0600, "chas" <footboarder@bresnan.net
wrote:

Is there an adapter one can purchase so one can use older stereo equipment
with a new flat screen digital TV? My new TV only has 'digital audio out',
a single plug that I imagine is a 3 conductor type, but I'm guessing.
. . . .any enlightenmet on this I would sure appreciate. . ..thanks chas.


I'm in that boat myself. It's cheaper just to buy a new system.
Click to expand...
No, it's cheaper to buy a TV that meets your needs.
 
eBay #160855547898
.. . . .take a look at the above auction site number. Looks to good to be
true. $15.00 +/-.
.. . . .chas
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"chas" <footboarder@bresnan.net> wrote in message
news:hjRZr.412$u87.74@newsfe02.iad...
Is there an adapter one can purchase so one can use older stereo equipment
with a new flat screen digital TV? My new TV only has 'digital audio
out', a single plug that I imagine is a 3 conductor type, but I'm
guessing.
. . . .any enlightenmet on this I would sure appreciate. . ..thanks chas.
Click to expand...
 
"chas"
eBay #160855547898
. . . .take a look at the above auction site number. Looks to good to be
true. $15.00 +/-.
Click to expand...

** Does your TV set output 2 ch LPCM ( linear pulse code modulation) ?

Not many do and that is the only kind of digital signal the above unit it
works with.

Most TVs will output a compressed digital signal containing up to 5.1 audio
channels.

This is what a "digital receiver" expects to see arriving at the optical or
co-axial input.



.... Phil
 
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