Connecting tv to pc speakers

[canis]

I have a Sharp LCD tv that has a nice picture but very poor built-in speakers (the volume turned all the way up is way too low). I would like to connect the tv to some extra pc speakers that I have.

Here's the problem. The tv does not have a regular audio out that would let me do a direct connect to the speakers. It has a Digital Audio Output that connects, via an optical fiber cable (commercially available), to an optical digital input of an external audio device. That's what my Sharp tv manual says.

My pc speakers do not have an optical digital input... just an input for a standard 3.5 mm pc speaker cable.

Is there any way I can make this work?

Btw, the tv does have inputs with regular audio for connecting dvd's, vcr, game consoles, etc...... but that's input and I need output.

[Ravens2006]

Are you using a cable box of some sort for the feed to your TV? If so, check the setup options on the cable box. I know with at least some Comcast boxes, depending on the audio output settings in the cable box, there can be a pretty wide variance in how loud the audio coming from the TV speakers sounds. In short, with the TV audio volume constant, the sound coming out can go from "fairly quiet" to "pretty loud" just by changing some settings in the audio menus on the cable box.

Otherwise, I'd say just search for some adapters to go from the optical audio plug type to what you need. I have no idea if that's a $5 solution or a $50 solution. I wouldn't think it to be too expensive. Anyway, as the cost of that increases... I'd start leaning towards just buying a small, cheap "theater system".

[canis]

Thanks Ravens2006. I'll check out the options for the box. I have one of the small boxes for digital that COMCAST just sent me. The low volume issue on the tv was the same on the other box that I had before this new one.

I did have some good luck this morning when I found my tv has an output for earphones. I plugged the pc speakers into that output and it's working. The audio is now coming through the pc speakers, and since the speakers amplify, I can set the volume as loud as I want.

[canis]

That small box for digital from Comcast is 3.5"L X 2.5" W X 3/4" H.

It's called a Digital Transport Adapter and does not give you On-Demand (Ch 1)..... just the basic channels. You also get a basic remote with it.... nothing like the gray Comcast remote. So if you want full channel programming on your tv, this is not the way to go.

[Ravens2006]

Yeah, the little digital adapters are almost pointless. You're not getting any frills or a great picture with those. But they're "free", or at least the first two are free, so...

[Underseige]

I have a Sharp LCD tv that has a nice picture but very poor built-in speakers (the volume turned all the way up is way too low). I would like to connect the tv to some extra pc speakers that I have.

Here's the problem. The tv does not have a regular audio out that would let me do a direct connect to the speakers. It has a Digital Audio Output that connects, via an optical fiber cable (commercially available), to an optical digital input of an external audio device. That's what my Sharp tv manual says.

My pc speakers do not have an optical digital input... just an input for a standard 3.5 mm pc speaker cable.

Is there any way I can make this work?

Btw, the tv does have inputs with regular audio for connecting dvd's, vcr, game consoles, etc...... but that's input and I need output.

try the analog way, if this doesn't work I'm afraid you need to buy speakers but if you have direct tv I think you can program directly to the speakers for sound

[canis]

try the analog way, if this doesn't work I'm afraid you need to buy speakers but if you have direct tv I think you can program directly to the speakers for sound

I connected the pc-speakers (amplified) to headphone jack. It works, except I am not getting stereo, only mono out of one speaker.