I was 4 years old, listening to a record on headphones connected to this rig. Leaned too far back, and caught the 1/4 inch input jack on the headphones right in my fucking eyeball.
I was 4 years old, listening to a record on headphones connected to this rig. Leaned too far back, and caught the 1/4 inch input jack on the headphones right in my fucking eyeball.
TVs do have HDMI audio output. It’s the ARC/eARC port, and you connect that to your AVR or soundbar.
…Thanks for the clarification. Oh cool, all I got in my instructions was “here’s our crappy set-top box, you should plug it in the ‘ARC’ thing if you have one.” Does this set-top box have output options? Well it’s a crappy set-top box, what do you think. *sigh* One more reason I’m canceling that service the moment the contract allows.
Yeah, I’m not sure why they’d tell you to plug a set top box into that.
It works as an input too, but if you run something like Netflix from the TV app, that’s where the audio output from it goes.
Personally I run it all into the AVR, and from there to the TV, because I’ve got an older ARC set. ARC was limited to older DVD-era audio formats like stereo PCM, DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 (with the limited Atmos support). More modern sets have eARC which supports all the fancier Blu-ray-era formats, DTS-MA, Dolby TrueHD & Atmos, and 7.1 PCM. All the major streaming services use the older formats though, so most people won’t notice any difference.
I plug everything up to my AVR besides my Xbox and PlayStation. I use eArc for them, since HDMI 2.1 sometimes can be finicky on my AVR even though it has it.
Yeah, I remember them finding all sorts of issues around the launch of the new consoles, since they were the first proper test for the HDMI 2.1 AVRs.
My AVR is only a 2.0, but I found it could actually pass 120Hz at 1080p because that’s what my 2017 TV supports.