Can you connect a soundbar and an audio receiver (with surround sound speakers) to a tv with an optical audio cable splitter and have them both work simultaneously. My grandpa has both these things and after he got a new tv he had me set it up but I can get one or the other to work but not both at the same time. I tried to tell him that it might not be possible but he won’t accept that. He is stubborn and knows nothing about electronics so when I try to explain to him it might not be possible he won’t accept that. My logic is based on first of all that a soundbar serves no purpose if you have surround sound because a soundbar is just a cheap version of surround sound that gives the illusion of surround sound. Since i had to get a splitter for it and it wont do both simultaneously but only one or the other, the tv might not be able to encode/decode the decoding/encoding of both the receiver and soundbar simultaneously. And therefore coding a tv to do both simultaneously would serve no purpose making it actually impossible. I dont know a lot about how audio receivers, speaker systems, and tvs process each others information so my logic could be pretty flawed so that’s why I’m asking. I would appreciate if someone could help. Thanks.
Just to add a bit more info: i have the cable, dvd player, and roku plugged into the hdmis of the back of the audio receiver. Another thing that made no sense to me is that before I ordered the splitter I could get it all to work through the soundbar when i plugged the optical cable directly to the soundbar. The thing that made no sense was that no optical audio cable was plugged into the receiver, the receiver was off, but the roku, cable, etc were all plugged into the hdmis of the audio receiver but it still worked through the soundbar? How the hell is that possible? I must really not understand how it works
To bbe morecleae both the picture and audio worked this way somehow for all 3 of the devices
Just to add a bit more info: i have the cable, dvd player, and roku plugged into the hdmis of the back of the audio receiver. Another thing that made no sense to me is that before I ordered the splitter I could get it all to work through the soundbar when i plugged the optical cable directly to the soundbar. The thing that made no sense was that no optical audio cable was plugged into the receiver, the receiver was off, but the roku, cable, etc were all plugged into the hdmis of the audio receiver but it still worked through the soundbar? How the hell is that possible? I must really not understand how it works
To bbe morecleae both the picture and audio worked this way somehow for all 3 of the devices
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