[Kayne]

hi, i currently have my HDTV hooked up as a second monitor and i was wondering if there was a way to make the sound come from my tv speakers instead(or along with) my computer speakers. because when i wanna watch or play something on my HDTV its weird because the sound only comes from my right...

i was wondering if i could use some kind of driver so the sound will come from my tv speakers.

if i cant do something like that, could someone please tell me what i will need to make this work... cables? adapters? a soundcard maybe... (as little $$ as possible) my tv is about 20 ft from my computer

the manual has a pic of the connection panel... and my computer has 6 3.5mm jacks.. black, green, pink, orange, gray. and blue.

the manual can be found HERE... the pages of interest are probably 8 and 10

[buffoon]

It's a question of getting your PC's audio into the TV by cable, you don't need a driver. It depends on what outputs your PC has.

What kind of cable did you use to hook the PC to TV to get image and which output socket of your PC are used?

[arknorth]

If your HDTV is anything like my Toshiba, there should be a simple audio IN jack, just like what you would have for a normal LCD monitor with speakers built in. If you're wishing to keep the sound coming from both sets of speakers, a standard stereo y-jack splitter can be used to feed a line from the single SPEAKER OUT jack of the computer to both systems.

A-N

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by arknorth

If your HDTV is anything like my Toshiba, there should be a simple audio IN jack, just like what you would have for a normal LCD monitor with speakers built in. If you're wishing to keep the sound coming from both sets of speakers, a standard stereo y-jack splitter can be used to feed a line from the single SPEAKER OUT jack of the computer to both systems.
A-N

Indeed. But Kayne's user manual link for a Sanyo TV shows that the TV has 3 HDMI inputs as well as a number of composite RCA inputs (yellow for image and the other two for audio L/R).

If Kayne gets image to the TV by HDMI the audio should also come thru that, unless a DVI (PC side) to HDMI cable is used, which won't support audio. In which case, as you correctly state, a separate audio cable is needed to transport sound.

But the HDMI sockets on the TV, show no separate audio RCA inputs assigned to them, as far as I can see.

That's why I asked as to the nature of his connection (image).

[arknorth]

I can't see those pics - blocked system here.

My system has a dedicated computer attached to it - I use a video card with a DVI jack to an HDMI input to the television. My audio is simply that normal stereo speaker jack to a normal speaker jack - the trick is, if my computer was to be feeding sound out of it, it would come through with the HDMI video AND the VGA video (if I was using that).

There is a way though - and Tiger says - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...685&CatId=3669

A-N

[Kayne]

well thanks for the helpful replies...

the way i have my tv hooked up is a DVI to HDMI cable. so that doesnt carry sound? so do i need a 3.5mm jack to RCA cables to reach my tv?

and i dont have an HDMI on my video card and i dont want to buy another

im not completely surewhat all the 3.5mm jacks on my computer do i figured the color codes would help with that. they have pics but my computer is in an awkward position so i dont wanna have to unhook it and pull it out to check

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by Kayne

well thanks for the helpful replies...

the way i have my tv hooked up is a DVI to HDMI cable. so that doesnt carry sound?

No unfortunately. It's the DVI end. Image only.

so do i need a 3.5mm jack to RCA cables to reach my tv?

Yes. Provided your TV has RCA L/R sockets dedicated to the same AV position as your HDMI-AVs (1,2 or 3 or whatever). From what I could see in the manual you linked to, however, it doesn't.

and i dont have an HDMI on my video card and i dont want to buy another

understandably.

im not completely surewhat all the 3.5mm jacks on my computer do i figured the color codes would help with that. they have pics but my computer is in an awkward position so i dont wanna have to unhook it and pull it out to check

green would be audio out, black could be the same and/or headphones(it depends how your configuration is, i.e. use of external speakers, use of headphones), pink is normally mic, orange is usually digital out and grey and blue I'm not sure.

FYI I have a similar hook up of PC-DVI/HDMI-TV but my TV has dedicated L/R audio sockets dedicated to the corresponding HDMI socket. So I HAVE run the sound in analogue separately.

I also had trouble unloading the manual completely so I couldn't check whether it held any suggestions.

[flyingcrane]

i have a vizio and hp pavilion with wifi how can i get netflex to worl on my tv whast cables do i need

[Kayne]

from what it loks like,only my hdmi 1 port has designated audio ports, maybe hdmi 2 also...

so do they make 3.5mm to rca cables?

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by Kayne

from what it loks like,only my hdmi 1 port has designated audio ports, maybe hdmi 2 also...

so do they make 3.5mm to rca cables?

Ah, that's good. Yes, 3.5 mm single audio jack to 2 RCA (L/R red/white) are not a problem and don't cost much.

If only your HDMI 1 has dedicated RCAs audio IN then you can use that easily. If HDMI 2 doesn't you can switch whatever was in HDMI 1 to HDMI 2, since it must have HDMI at both ends, otherwise it wouldn't be working. That'll leave you with HDMI 1 free for your PC.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by arknorth

I can't see those pics - blocked system here.

My system has a dedicated computer attached to it - I use a video card with a DVI jack to an HDMI input to the television. My audio is simply that normal stereo speaker jack to a normal speaker jack - the trick is, if my computer was to be feeding sound out of it, it would come through with the HDMI video AND the VGA video (if I was using that).

There is a way though - and Tiger says - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...685&CatId=3669

A-N

Yup. On the HDMI socket of the card both audio and video would be transported. But it says nothing about either DVI or VGA transporting sound as well. And that would indeed be unusual.

[arknorth]

Aye, though if you look at the picture, all the show on the business end of the card is a pair of DVI jacks and an S-Video clunker - so they must be able to feed it somehow.

A-N

[Kayne]

i switched my HDMI ports up so the first one is the DVI cable since it has arrows pointing to 2 jacks and "audio(DVI)" on the arrow(page 6 of the manual)

so i got the cable in the mail, plus a splitter, now it still isnt working, i have my computer speakers and the cable going to my tv hooked up to the splitter, and the splitter hooked up to my computer 3.5mm jack(green). the computer only puts sound through 1 speaker and nothing works for the tv... i tried hooking my speakers straight up and i tried the one from my tv on all the other 3.5mm jacks and none of them worked. i also tried restarting the computer with the jack in the black and green 3.5mm socket, since it had the same picture next to it as the green one.

and another quick question, is sound going to come from both computer and tv when both are powered on? or is it whatever screen the audio is coming from will produce the sound