How To Get Optical Sound?

[JTIZZLEVILLE]

Hey all you audio savvy people. I have a little delima and I need some help to figure it out.

I have a 10 year old Philips stereo system. About a year ago I got tired of my TVs speakers so I just plugged, and I hope I have the name right, RCA to 3.5mm cable in. Just put the Red and White cables into the Aux. Out of the stereo and then plugged the 3.5mm into the head phone jack. Worked perfectly.

I got a new HD TV today and it only uses Optical Output. I'm not wanting new speakers. Is there a cable or anyway I can still use my stereo speakers on my new TV?

 

[Malice]

Hey all you audio savvy people. I have a little delima and I need some help to figure it out.

I have a 10 year old Philips stereo system. About a year ago I got tired of my TVs speakers so I just plugged, and I hope I have the name right, RCA to 3.5mm cable in. Just put the Red and White cables into the Aux. Out of the stereo and then plugged the 3.5mm into the head phone jack. Worked perfectly.

I got a new HD TV today and it only uses Optical Output. I'm not wanting new speakers. Is there a cable or anyway I can still use my stereo speakers on my new TV?

Optical output is basically fiber optic...using light as the signal...
The old audio outs use copper...honestly, not sure if there is a way.

But I imagine, there might be a device that you can get, to put on the end of the optical cable, that outputs to copper audio out, to then connect to your stereo

NOTE...I am not an audio guy, but a connector is a connector, if you can bridge the two with a device that translates it, it should work

 

[Malice]

Take a look here....
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Honestly, not sure if this is what you are looking for.