Tv Headphones - Unable To Connect

[tiggerblue10]

I recently bought a new Samsung Smart TV but there doesn't appear to be an outlet to connect my headphones. There are USB and HDMI ports but no sockets.

How do I connect my headphones or will I need to get new ones which are bluetooth?

[TheChair]

Samsung make loads of different models. Which model do you have?
Most of them seem to have an audio-out mini jack on the back which would probably be adequate to drive a set of headphones.

[hc4361]

You can buy an adapter for the audio output sockets that should be somewhere on the tv. It should only cost a few pounds.

[tiggerblue10]

It's a UHD 7 series, TheChair. I can't see an audio-out mini jack at the back.

I've got a HDMI adaptor as I needed 4 ports and most TVs come with 3.

[Buenchico]

Only one model within the UHD 7 series has a headphone socket. Others don't. (See the table in the link below).

Otherwise (quote) "Some Samsung LED TVs are not fitted with mini headphone port, rather they have a digital optical audio out for Home theatre connection, if you wish to listen to the TV through headphones, it will require the TV to be plugged into any audio amplifier that has both a digital line-in, and a mini jack headphone out"

[hc4361]

This sort of adapter will do the job

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[Buenchico]

^^^ Tigger hasn't mentioned the set having an RCA audio output, Hc4361. Very few sets manufactured within the past couple of decades have them.

[hc4361]

:( I absolutely have to have a tv with a headphone socket and was somewhat dismayed at the amount of tvs that don't have one when I bought my new tv a few months ago.

Buenchico, I have seen hdmi to audio jack adapters available - would that work okay? I didn't go down that route as I need all the hdmi ports I can get.

[tiggerblue10]

The only sockets it has are HDMI, USB and Optical.

[tiggerblue10]

I've ordered an optical audio cable on Amazon.

[Buenchico]

Hc4361:
I've been checking out the multitude of optical digital-to-analogue audio converters available on Amazon. All of them seem to state that they're only compatible with the 2.1 audio standard, rather than the 5.1 audio output provided by Samsung UHD 7 series TV sets.

However, as you suggest, HDMI-to-analogue would seem to be a possibility:
https://www.clearvisionsystems.co.uk/hdmi-to-analogue-audio-converter

[Buenchico]

>>> I've ordered an optical audio cable on Amazon

What are going to plug it into?

[rockyracoon]

I've got a Samsunf TV. The headphone socket is on the back panel, not on the side with the HDMI sockets.

That's if the telly is of a similar design

[tiggerblue10]

In the optical port, Chris. Or is this not what it's for?

I can't find a port that fits my headphones cable, Rocky.

[Buenchico]

I was more bothered about what you were planning to connect the other end of the cable to, Tigger.

[tiggerblue10]

I've cancelled the order and I'm ordering wireless bluetooth headphones specifically for TV.

[rockyracoon]

Does the TV have Bluetooth? I use wireless headphones with my TV and had to get a Bluetooth adaptor that I plug into the headphone socket.

[Khandro]

My advice to anyone buying a TV should make sure that connecting headphones doesn't automatically switch off the sound from TV speakers, this enables one person to listen via headphones while others can continue hear as normal in the room.

[dunnitall]

We always have to have a tv with headphone socket as other half hard of hearing. Our Panasonic is brill as you can have headphones only on or headphones and external speakers at different levels of volume. I hope we don't have to buy a new one as this one is quite old now...as I don't think many come with same facilities.

[hc4361]

Dunnitall, my new Sony TV has that facility, thankfully