How to connect a soundbar to a TV: Optical vs. HDMI cables

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Connecting a soundbar to a TV can take only one or two cables, but have you asking many questions. Here are the answers.

The Sennheiser AMBEO soundbar's underbelly hides its ports panel, including ones for HDMI and optical.While the picture quality of the best TVs seems to improve year over year, the internal speakers of these increasingly slim, stunning panels don’t really do those vivid images justice. Because of this, it’s no surprise that soundbars, which can supplement those tinny tones with almost movie theater-level audio, seem to grow in popularity every year as well.

Once you take a little time to learn how to connect a soundbar to a TV for max effect, you’ll see that it’s really quite easy despite some technological details. And when you hear the results, whether it’s just enhanced stereo or fully futuristic spatial audio, you’ll be glad you did.transmit both audio and video. However, from roughly 2003-2009, HDMI cables only shuttled A/V data in one direction.

However, not just any HDMI cable will do. To connect eARC TVs to eARC soundbars, you’ll need to look for cables with designations HDMI with Ethernet, High-Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet, or the next-generation Ultra High-Speed HDMI Cable . If you purchase a new eARC soundbar, in all likelihood it will include a capable HDMI cable to connect to your TV, but that’s what to look for if you need to check.

2. Connect the TV’s HDMI eARC port to the soundbar’s eARC port using an Ultra-High-Speed HDMI cable. In the rare case that your TV does not have an HDMI port labeled eARC or ARC, connect the HDMI cable from the soundbar’s HDMI TV port to any HDMI port on the TV. That connection will handle the video . In addition, you will need to connect an optical digital audio cable to both devices to handle the sound. Connect an optical audio cable from the TV’s Optical Out to the soundbar’s Optical In .

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