deejah Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 in regards to the Samsung A2 Nicam Stereo TV in my thai room i tired many times and in many ways to hook up a simple CD player but can not get the sound to work i know the cable and the CD player are OK tested many times however i can not for the life of me get the audio to come through on the TV hook everything up press the video button on the TV remote just get a blank screen even tried to put the audio cable into to video input and can see there is a signal on the screen then tried to hook up the RCA cables in the back of the TV then tried it on other TV sets in the building nothing so far works any ideas please help this is driving me batty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reimar Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 in regards to the Samsung A2 Nicam Stereo TV in my thai roomi tired many times and in many ways to hook up a simple CD player but can not get the sound to work i know the cable and the CD player are OK tested many times however i can not for the life of me get the audio to come through on the TV hook everything up press the video button on the TV remote just get a blank screen even tried to put the audio cable into to video input and can see there is a signal on the screen then tried to hook up the RCA cables in the back of the TV then tried it on other TV sets in the building nothing so far works any ideas please help this is driving me batty Could you please produce some photos from the connector side of both devices? and the Model No. and brand of the CD-Player as well. On the photos we should be able to see the description of the connectors. Thanks and cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deejah Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 sorry i can not supply pics however this is very straight forward stuff they are 3 RCA input females on the side one for video 2 for audio there are 6 in the back 3 of the same and 3 for output the CD player is a portable Phillips It works fine tested out on a large screen TV system directly connecting in the back never had any problems before with other tv sets since i tried this on 4 TVs of the same model at the apartment complex i suspect there is some setting i need to change or even worse the RCA audio inputs in both the front and back of this model TV are not hooked up inside the TV, factory issue could that really be the case? would i have to open the TV to see/know? this one has got me puzzled big time guess i need to test the TVs with a DVD or vcd player but currently don't have one thanks much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCCP Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 If you are confident you have connected everyhting correctly. Check your DVD audio settings. It may be set to optical output or similar for dolby digital. Make sure you set to stereo or LC RC. This should be found in audio settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deejah Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 thanks yes i checked the connections many times this is a very straightforward hook up its a CD player there are no DVD settings i am hooking up the CD to a TV there is no 'stereo' therefore no lc or rc settings for the TV, i checked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deejah Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 this is still driving me crazy moderator could you please move this to the general section? perhaps i will have better luck there thanks kindly cheers all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrin Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Many Samsung TV's have a feature that requires a live feed into a jack before it becomes active. The RCA jacks are a combo of video and audio in jacks. If the TV does not detect a live feed into the video portion of the three RCA jacks then all three remain dorment. Try connecting a live video feed to the video RCA jack(from a DVD player maybe) and then plug your CD player into the audio jacks. This will light up the inputs and you will get active options on your on-screen display. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrin Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 A couple more things. If you are using a portable CD player are you getting the audio from a line out jack or are you using the headphone mini jack. If mini jack remember you are sending an amplified signal and you can damage your TV this way. Also another option is to buy a low end speaker/subwoffer set(less then 1000B) and use this instead of your TV speakers. You may find yourself using the external speakers for watching TV as well. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrin Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 One last idea. On the remote for the TV there is a source button that toggles through all of the input options. It is usually marked TV/AV or TV/Video. Turn on the TV and it usually defaults to the coax input. Push the button and the on screen display will show which jacks are active with each push of the button. Toggle through until the RCA jacks with the live feed are active. I still recommend seperate external speakers though. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deejah Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 thanks folks there is some really good stuff posted here i think the issue is probably about not having a live video feed the whole idea is to play my CD player without having to buy a DVD player or speakers but i may have no choice unless i can trick it to work somehow in regards to the remote there are very little options just a video button that only changes from TV mode to video input there are no other options and to get out of video mode there is a TV button very strange indeed!!! i have never encountered this before on a TV set perhaps it is cheaper and easier to design 2 devoted buttons then one toggle button i should mention i have checked out about 4 of these TV models in my building and they are pure crap the audio volume fluctuates by itself and kind of cuts out with a 'pop' and there are red and green burn marks on the CRT they can be seen in a white or sky scene i thought samsung made good quality perhaps these are knock offs they really are lacking fyi thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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