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For anyone else with the same problem, I solved it by buying a Sony DAV S300 VCR/amplifer. It has a volume control and an earphone jack. I ran the optical digital cable to it from the T.V. and it is working fine. However, my hearing loss is in the higher frequencies so the current crop of...

How do I know that will work before I buy it? I have purchased three Toslink to RCA/headphone units (two recommended by experts on this site), and one headphone amplifier/converter (also recommended by one of the experts on this site) that did not work. In short, more money down a rat hole...

Being hard of hearing and the blaring TV bothering my wife, I have been searching for a way to connect headphones to my Panasonic Viera TV with only optical audio output (with no success so far...see my other posts). It is my intention to buy a cheap sound bar with optical autdio input and Blue...

I have a Panasonic Viera flat screen TV with only (of course), optical audio output (PMC optical signals), Dolby Surround Sound, to which I want to connect headphones (I am very hard of hearing...my wife is not). None of the proposed solutions on how to attach headphones to my tv have worked...

Unfortunately, after connecting the Toslink optical cable to my just-arrived headphone amplifier, I still get that same pulsing static on my headphones. Note that when I connect the optical cable to the home theater system, the sound works fine. What am I doing wrong here? Why no sound to the...

Addendum: Still waiting for the new converter. However, reading the TV's manual I came across this: "When an ATSC channel is selected, the output from the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT jack will be Dolby Digital. When and NTSC channel is selected, the output will be PCM." The article states that in...

This is the type I have. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Optical-Toslink-Coaxial-to-Analog-L-R-RCA-Audio-Converter-with-Charger-/261578374686?hash=item3ce7493e1e

I might if I knew what that meant. I do not know what you mean by "link to the toslink adapter...".

I have a Panasonic Viera flat screen TV with only (of course), optical audio output (PMC optical signals) to which I want to connect headphones (I am very hard of hearing...my wife is not). I have connected my TV to a converter that takes a Toslink cable and converts it to RCA audio. To that...