can I mute the tv and still hear it on the headphones
1328085
There is no absolute answer for this. In most cases, when you plug a headphone into the headphone jack on your equipment, the sound to the external speakers is muted, automatically. In fact, that's one of the slightly annoying things about this device because the transmitter plugs into the headphone jack and must be unplugged any time you want to have the external speakers on. If your TV has RCA plugs out you can use an adapter;2 x RCA Male, 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Female, Y-Cable 6-Inchto connect your headphone transmitter to those plugs. Then you can just use your TV onscreen menu to select the audio output you connect the adapter to. I hope this helps. There is no absolute answer for this. In most cases, when you plug a headphone into the headphone jack on your equipment, the sound to the external speakers is muted, automatically. In fact, that's one of the slightly annoying things about this device because the transmitter plugs into the headphone jack and must be unplugged any time you want to have the external speakers on. If your TV has RCA plugs out you can use an adapter;2 x RCA Male, 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Female, Y-Cable 6-Inchto connect your headphone transmitter to... » Read More There is no absolute answer for this. In most cases, when you plug a headphone into the headphone jack on your equipment, the sound to the external speakers is muted, automatically. In fact, that's one of the slightly annoying things about this device because the transmitter plugs into the headphone jack and must be unplugged any time you want to have the external speakers on. If your TV has RCA plugs out you can use an adapter;2 x RCA Male, 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Female, Y-Cable 6-Inchto connect your headphone transmitter to those plugs. Then you can just use your TV onscreen menu to select the audio output you connect the adapter to. I hope this helps. « Show Less
1328086
Yes. Nice feature. You can mute the TV and not bother anyone else, or have your own volume.
1328087
That's a function of the TV and how you connect to it. If the TV mutes the audio out in lockstep with the speakers, then the headphones will mute with the TV.
301720
Typically no - most headset jacks are wired to turn the speakers off as soon as something is plugged in. This depends more on your TV than the headsets themselves
301718
Not unless your TV has a bypass option for the headphone jack. Most TVs cut the speaker sound automatically when a headphone jack is plugged in.
1206947
There is a 3.5 mm. stereo audio jack on the rear. You may select from "TV Speaker" or "External Speaker". In the TV Speaker mode, both the TV speakers and the external speaker are on. When in the External Speaker mode, the TV speaker is turned off and the volume and mute buttons do not operate. Using headphones would require a small amp or some sort of volume control to be practical.
397958
Yes. I have it hooked to my TV. Lower the TV volume and the output is lower. Your headphones may also have a volume control and then you can use either one or both to increase or decrease the volume.
289215
Of course, yes. It has the volumn control so you can adjust the volume independently from TV volume.Let's say you set TV volume to 20 but it doesn't affect your headphone. If your wife doesn't want listen to TV, set it to 0 and increase the volume on your headphone so you can enjoy TV show and TV will be mute.
1557584
They should have no problem. I can mute the TV completely and still I have sound and can adjust it. I hooked my headphones into the earphone jack on the TV and it worked great without having to use audio jacks.
289209
Yes, even when ur using the headphones u can still control the tv volume. This headphone allows you to have idependent volumes controls.
2269828
Yes. I have a sound bar so my TV speakers are off anyway. I ended up plugging the headphones into the Optical jack on my DirecTV receiver but I had it plugged into my TV first.
2236806
It depends on the TV, if your TV has a line out that fits this size jack then no, but if you are using the headphone jack on the TV then yes, you would need to unplug the cable from the TV to listen to the TV.
728460
Yes you can, but I usually use the mute feature on my phone. The device comes with a instruction book that tells you how to mute it.
955862
Probably yes, but it depends upon how your source (TV or receiver) that is feeding your speaker handles the output. I have two TV Ears (the headphone type) and both my TVs are able to handle output to the TV Ears (with a constant volume that can be adjusted by the TV Ears) as well as sound from the source that can be muted or turned all the way down. All relatively modern TVs should be able to do this, but it is entirely a function of the sound source and not the TV Ears devices.
1407882
Yes, you can even mute the tv and adjust the volume on your headset. Be sure to hit the reset button, then the scan button to find the tv signal
787151
Yes. With my tv, with audio out jacks for the transmitter, the headphone volume is independent of the tv speaker volume.
2103275
Yes, Second person can listen to TV in normal TV speakers with his desired volume. He can mute or unmute which will not impact this head phones. The volume control on this headphone work independently from the tv volume.
2253474
If the TV has an audio out connection (usually a red and white set of RCA jacks) the answer is yes. You can still have the TV volume set for other listeners. If you want to silence the TV but still use the earphones, it is necessary to turn the TV volume down zero.
2283112
The only way I can answer is to say that I mute the tv often and just listen to the tv ears. both with an earphone and without.