re: Need Help Connecting a New Plasma TV to an Older Surround Sound Device

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So, as I stated when you look at that model it doesn't have analog audio outputs. It only has an optical digital output for audio. Those RCA audio jacks are inputs, not outputs. Clear as day on the manual.

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Just stop. You didn't know what the model was until just now, and it was only in your second message, your first reply to me, that you revealed you didn't find one with analog outs, and even then, the model number was still a mystery. If you were trying to suggest that in your first message, I found and still find no way to interpret it as such; indeed, you said, "Unless you're hooked up to the RCA R/L audio inputs those RCA outputs are useless," which implies that like me, you accepted the OP's (mistaken) statement that his set has RCA outputs.

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Unless the manual and the spec sheet for the tv are incorrect what the OP would like to do via RCA audio outputs is not possible as there are none.

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Which is what I told him after looking at the actual manual, after he identified the actual set. As I told him, he mistook an input for an output. I wish I had thought of that instead of focusing on possible causes assuming that he was right.

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Apologies accepted.

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Re-read your original post and my reply to it, which was not a personal attack no matter what your thin skin is telling you. You said, "You aren't getting sound out of the RCA cables because the TV is going to be analog in/analog out or digital in/digital out," implying TVs don't convert digital audio to analog, which is wrong; and "Unless you're hooked up to the RCA R/L audio inputs those RCA outputs are useless," as if it were possible to do otherwise; and finally, "If you do hook it up that way another problem is going to manifest and that is lip sync issues because you'll be watching a digital signal and listening to an analog signal," which is more misleading nonsense that I addressed. You should have thanked me for the corrections and elaboration instead of getting indignant and bitching about it for several messages. That's not a personal attack, either; it's just me being blunt, and that's all I will have to say about it.