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barney:
Here's the problem.
I have an LG 55" LED/LCD.  It has four (4) HDMI inputs, one (1) mini-plug output and one (1) fibre-optic output.  The fibre-optic output ties to a Samsung sound bar with sub-woofer that I bought.  The mini-plug is for headphones and derails all other audio output.

I want to incorporate wireless speakers for the patio - cable is not an option.  Bought a pair of wireless speakers, with a broadcast unit that plugs into the mini-plug output.  That won't work, since it disables all other audio.

Question is, what is my best recourse, short of replacing the TV, for allowing some kind of wireless speaker to work?  Don't want to disable the sound bar because folk may be indoors watching while I am outdoors, watching through the patio windows, and listening via the wireless speaker(s).  Sound bar has no recourse for attaching extraneous speakers.  (I could have sworn I used to have a plug that would work for this, but if so, haven't been able to find it.)

My current thinking is to put a wireless receiver close to the sound bar which will then grab the audio and transmit it to the patio speakers.  But I've no idea what system would be good for that sort of thing.  Or even whether there might be a better approach.  (Max distance will be roughly fifty (50) to seventy (70) feet, so that shouldn't be a problem, I thimk.)

Football (the US version) season is rapidly approaching.  I have a cigar-smoking friend.  We wanna see the game, hear the game, still be able to smoke and drink appropriately.  Sound quality is not a major issue - hey, we'll be drinking, smoking, talking  :P - as long as it is reasonably audible and more-or-less static free.

Any ideas?

mouser:
The fibre-optic output ties to a Samsung sound bar with sub-woofer that I bought.
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I'm not sure what your "sound bar" is, but a good solution would be to buy a proper Receiver, which would have outputs for your speakers and outputs you could connect to the wireless broadcaster.

Your sound bar will either have inputs that will allow it to be used as a center speaker for the receiver, or else you would need to buy a new center speaker and return the sound bar.

4wd:
One option would be a wireless video/audio/remote transmitter that accepts TOSLINK input and then just use a TOSLINK splitter to get signal to it, eg. TOSLINK Splitter

Then just plug powered speakers into the receiver.

Stoic Joker:
Um...
The mini-plug is for headphones and derails all other audio output.-barney (August 12, 2012, 02:46 PM)
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I want to incorporate wireless speakers for the patio - cable is not an option.  Bought a pair of wireless speakers, with a broadcast unit that plugs into the mini-plug output.  That won't work, since it disables all other audio.-barney (August 12, 2012, 02:46 PM)
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Problem seems to be by design (can the behavior be disabled?).

IIRC we have the same TV, isn't there a set of 3 RCA jacks (white/yellow/red) on the back of it? It shouldn't be to hard to get an adapter cable to get audio from that.

barney:
Problem seems to be by design (can the behavior be disabled?).

IIRC we have the same TV, isn't there a set of 3 RCA jacks (white/yellow/red) on the back of it? It shouldn't be to hard to get an adapter cable to get audio from that.
-Stoic Joker (August 13, 2012, 11:41 AM)
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Yea, verily, they do exist ... for input  >:(.  There are RCA jacks for component video, RCA jacks for AV, and an RS-232 port, all input.  (That was in one (1) of my lost posts just after I got the thing.  I was trying then to connect a laptop for remote viewing.)

Methinks 4wd has the right of it, although I was trying to avoid that route.  Guess I'll just have to put up with the cable clutter.  I had expected the sound bar system to have an auxiliary output, but not there.  (When I bought it, the sales guy I questioned was pretty sure it had one  :P :down: :wallbash:.)  But I can get a TOSLINK splitter and an adapter that's male TOSLINK to female 3.5 mm jack that my sending unit will fit.  At least, that way, I don't have to replace the remote speaker system  :-\.

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