Does this work the other way? I have an old school Red/Wht wire Bose Surround Sound player, but my TV only has an optical input?
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I believe this device is only intended to convert output to analog stereo output so that the audio can be delivered to 2 channel systems. The only thing that I have seen on the consumer market that would take 2 channel analog input to digital PCM has been some computer sound cards from Creative Labs, but I don't think they make them anymore.
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Yes, but one quick note that might help you: I switched from and older receiver that had many inputs and outputs but no HDMI to a newer one with HDMI support. At first when setting up the sound bar I freaked out when I realized the newer receiver didn't have optical out but it didn't stop me; I ended up running the optical out from the TV to the sound bar. If you have to do this you might need to go into your receiver's settings and enable sound through the TV HDMI signal (it was disabled in mine).
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J, I have it behind an AppleTv box via the HDMI output. It extracts the audio via the RCA outputs (the audio is still sent through the HDMI cable). It is not hardware dependent, it will work behind a DVD player (tried it and it worked) and will work with Roku box via the HDMI output. The Bose system has to have RCA audio in and it should be no problem. Dave
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Are you sure this is the signal flow HDMI to RCA in my case it was RCA to HDMI signal Flow the opposite way because a bose system has a rca plug then you need a RCA to HDMI signal into the TV
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This will take the sound from digital coax and digital toslink (optical) to the standard RCA (red/white) output. You will have to buy the cables to go with it (Optical cable and RCA cable) but yes it will work for you.
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That's because your optical cable is running from the receiver to the television, not to the PS3. Anything playing on your television will play through all your surround speakers. You would have to run the optical cable directly from the receiver to the PS3 to get the sound strictly from the PS3.My setup is the same as yours.
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You must convert the output signal from your TV audio, which is a digital signal over a coaxial cable type to an optical signal with a Toslink cable. The input into the sound bar will only receive an optical signal using the type of cable fitting dedicated for optical signals. I used this exact same converter on my TV and it worked perfectly. It's been installed for nearly a year and has performed flawlessly.
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The red and white cables aren't digital. That's the analog rca cables. Switch the soundbar to the "aux input" on the remote. If you wanted to use the digital input you would have to connect the tv to the sound at with a digital optical(toslink) cable. Hope this helps!
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I'm not sure about the inputs to the Bose system but with my Vizio soundbar system, I run my inputs to the soundbar and then output to the TV. Make sure it is connected to the ARC HDMI input (HDMI 2, I think) on the TV. This disables the TV speakers so the audio will always be through the Bose system. The video is simply passed through your sound system to the TV and the audio is returned to the Bose system via the audio return channel (ARC). Hope this helps.
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you could get a $10 ish converter box to take the optical to rca digital, I've had to do that for my audio receiver as it came with more rca digital, than optical, and HDMI was yet to include audio pass through at the time.
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This is true. I tried setting up my home theatre every way possible, but efter speaking to Sharp, they said you cannot use the audio optical out for HDMI. This is a shame. You must go directlyu from the audio source to the receiver via optical cable when using HDMI to the TV. No big deal, the TV is still awesome!
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Yes, it should. This will convert the analog red/white AV output from your TV to the Digital optical signal. In my case I have a small Bluetooth audio receiver with analog output connected to the AV input side and the digital output is connected to the optical connection on my stereo. It works great.
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pworam is right. You have to go to input mode on the TV. You will see the listing on the bottom and a picture of speakers. Select that you want the speakers to go to external. Using your digital optical audio to Home Theatre system will work(maybe even an ARC HDMI). Of course you have to set you speaker system to play AUX or Digital in.
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It does not appear that any of the Bose Wave systems have an optical in. The AUX in appears to be analog only expecting a 3.5mm mini, not an optical (light) input. If you are trying to play audio from cable/sat, dvd/bluray, etc on the Wave system I'd look at audio outs on the cable/sat box or media player (dvd/blueray/streaming) to see what analog sources they have that could connect to the AUX on the Bose. Most of the time unless your cable is connected directly to the TV you don't want to take audio from the TV to an external source, but instead send the source audio to something other than the TV. Hope that helps. It does not appear that any of the Bose Wave systems have an optical in. The AUX in appears to be analog only expecting a 3.5mm mini, not an optical (light) input. If you are trying to play audio from cable/sat, dvd/bluray, etc on the Wave system I'd look at audio outs on the cable/sat box or media player (dvd/blueray/streaming) to see what analog sources they have that could connect to the AUX on the Bose. Most of the time unless your cable is connected directly to the TV you don't want to take audio from the TV to an external source, but instead send the source audio to something other... » Read More It does not appear that any of the Bose Wave systems have an optical in. The AUX in appears to be analog only expecting a 3.5mm mini, not an optical (light) input. If you are trying to play audio from cable/sat, dvd/bluray, etc on the Wave system I'd look at audio outs on the cable/sat box or media player (dvd/blueray/streaming) to see what analog sources they have that could connect to the AUX on the Bose. Most of the time unless your cable is connected directly to the TV you don't want to take audio from the TV to an external source, but instead send the source audio to something other than the TV. Hope that helps. « Show Less
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As long as your receiver has a digital optical out if not I'm sure your receiver has auxillary outs in which case the sound bar also has av in on it ( the red and white plugs)
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Yes, The optical output to my Receiver works great! I had the same worries before I hooked it up. The HDMI cable went to my HDMI TV and the optical cable I had went to the receiver for my room soundaround speaker system. The TV speakers work also if you don't want to play the receiver, a earlier mention in another post said, he could not get his TV to play sound out the speakers.... NOT true the sound still travels thru the HDMI cable to the HD TV even with the Optical cable plugged in and ran to the receiver. The sound does not designate one or the other and comes out both. I just keep the volume on my HD TV to 0.
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Without knowing more about you setup (type of TV, etc.) I cannot answer with certainty. If you have the receiver and the TV connection via HDMI from the receivers HDMI out you might be able to use TV audio return channel. Otherwise connecting the optical cable should work, just make sure you have the correct mode selected on the receiver. I believe it is TV but it could be different. Check the manual.