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Help connecting computer speakers to flat screen TV
Hi, so I recently bought a Samsung flat screen TV to replace my old computer monitor as I mostly use my old desktop for watching movies. The problem is that I can't connect my computer speakers to my new *monitor* since it has no 3.5mm headphone jack. It does however have a optical out as well as an RCA (red and white) out. The guy at RadioShack talked me into purchasing a 2-RCA male X 1-male 3.5mm along with a 3.5mm female coupler, but for some reason that didn't work for me.
I have watched a few videos where people are taking an rca cable with male ends on both ends (PS3?) and connecting it to a 2 RCA female to 3.5mm male splitter and adding a 3.5 mm coupler to the end so they can plug in their headphones and supposedly this works. I just can't understand why that works but the way I tried it doesn't.
I've considered just buying a couple of bluetooth receiver/transmitters and going that route, but that could get expensive.
Would a viable solution be to use a digital to analog converter and a toslink cable with two male ends?
I'm still not sure why the RadioShack guys setup didn't work for me. Not unless there is some particular setting I am meant to adjust in order to switch the sound from *TV SPEAKERS* to *COMPUTER SPEAKERS* ?????