I am considering the Signia Streamline TV appliance if I keep my trial pair of 312 nx aids. My one question is, is it possible for me to listen to the TV through the Streamline while my wife listens through the TV speakers? My suspicion is probably not, but I was curious if anyone has accomplished this.
Yes, you can. If you have a surround sound system then ideally you would come out of the audio out jack, into the Streamline.
If there is no audio out then coming from the source, split the signal to the surround sound and the Streamline.
You may have to be creative with splitting signals and converting to the right connection type, but it can work.
Thanks for the reply. I think that is above my meager abilities, but I will look into it. All I have is the speakers built into the TV. I know it has a digital audio out, not sure about RCA jacks.
I love my signia streamline tv! I’ve had it about a year. It’s like I am not hard of hearing when I have it on. The only problem is when I watch a tv/movie with my husband. He wants to talk to me during it, but hard to because I have stop the tv so I can hear him. He can hear the tv normally when I have my streamline on.
I think it should work in a straightforward manner with most TVs. However, I’ve learned to never say never, as some TVs may be set up in a way to make it challenging. Only way to know for sure is to try it, but it’s likely it will work.
I think my concern is that where I would plug it into on my TV would make the TV want to send all the sound through the streaming device and not out through the speakers. It certainly is not the fault of the Streamline TV box. I believe that my TV has a digital audio out port, but I believe that disables the internal speakers if you use it, which is what I would be plugging the Streamline into…unless I am mistaken there.
Your milage may vary. I’ve tried to plug stream streaming devices into 3 TVs. Two worked like a charm–a Panasonic 37 incher from about 5 years ago and my current Vizio 40 incher. The third was a LG 26 incher from quite a few years back and after numerous calls to tech support ended up giving up. I’d just give it a try, but if you want to try doing some research, try calling your TV tech support and explain what you want to do and see what they say. Unfortunately this stuff isn’t standardized. There’s also the possibility that there are settings (or even hidden settings) on the TV that can make it work.
Audio out on the TV should not cut out the speakers and that would be the preferred method. Sometimes audio out is an optical connection and sometimes it is RCA jacks (red and white).
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