trying to get audio from my laptop to my tv

[Nelson]

Sad but true -- my tv speakers are the best that I own. Just bought a
new set, and the sound is far superior to my portable stereo or my
crappy little computer speakers. I've been playing cds through the tv
speakers via my dvd player, and they sound pretty good. I was
wondering if I could do the same via my laptop. I bought an adapter
that connects the laptop's headphone jack to the audio jacks (RCA?) on
the back of the tv. But I can't hear anything. Am I ignorant of some
basic rule of getting sound from a tv?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Nelson

 

[distatica]

Nelson wrote:

Sad but true -- my tv speakers are the best that I own. Just bought a
new set, and the sound is far superior to my portable stereo or my
crappy little computer speakers. I've been playing cds through the tv
speakers via my dvd player, and they sound pretty good. I was
wondering if I could do the same via my laptop. I bought an adapter
that connects the laptop's headphone jack to the audio jacks (RCA?) on
the back of the tv. But I can't hear anything. Am I ignorant of some
basic rule of getting sound from a tv?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Nelson

Try playing around with your input settings, either in the menu, or with
a button like tv/vcr and input. Have you attached your audio jacks to
where the DVD player usually plugs in? Or a different set of inputs?
Make sure you don't have them connected to an output. Also, what model
of TV? It's hard to debug something with so little information

Lot's of TV's have more than one input, so it might not be the first
one, keep pressing the button and see if more appear.

regards, distatica

 

[Nelson]

Thanks distatica.
I did finally get it to work, although my solution might be
ass-backwards. I disconnected the dvd player's audio and plugged the
laptop into those jacks. Then I turned the dvd player on, without a
disc. It works and it sounds pretty good! Only problem is if I want
to use the dvd player for its actual purpose, I have to disconnect the
audio from the laptop and plug in the dvd audio jacks.
Oh well, it's a start...


distatica wrote:

Nelson wrote:
Sad but true -- my tv speakers are the best that I own. Just bought a
new set, and the sound is far superior to my portable stereo or my
crappy little computer speakers. I've been playing cds through the tv
speakers via my dvd player, and they sound pretty good. I was
wondering if I could do the same via my laptop. I bought an adapter
that connects the laptop's headphone jack to the audio jacks (RCA?) on
the back of the tv. But I can't hear anything. Am I ignorant of some
basic rule of getting sound from a tv?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Nelson


Try playing around with your input settings, either in the menu, or with
a button like tv/vcr and input. Have you attached your audio jacks to
where the DVD player usually plugs in? Or a different set of inputs?
Make sure you don't have them connected to an output. Also, what model
of TV? It's hard to debug something with so little information

Lot's of TV's have more than one input, so it might not be the first
one, keep pressing the button and see if more appear.

regards, distatica