tv sound

[judasdeth]

I have a vizio hdtv and i have hooked up the video with a hdmi cable adapted to the mini display port and that is working fine but i can not send sound through it or idk how to. So i bought a optical toslink to mini toslink cable to send audio form the laptop to the tv but the audio still doesn't work. The laptop says that it automatically recognizes it as a digital output. Yea i really dont know how to fix this can anyone help me out?

 

[cokeb]

Your TV probably only have analog stereo input, the toslink is almost certainly for digital OUT.

 

[judasdeth]

If the tv only accepts analog inputs then why would they put a digital input like toslink on it?

 

[cokeb]

If your TV has a built in DVB-T or DVB-C reveiver that toslink connector is almost certainly a digital OUTPUT for sending surround sound to a home theater receiver or similar.

Most TVs only have crappy stereo speakers anyway, so a digital sound input would be almost useless.

 

[judasdeth]

oh ok i gotcha thx for the help