TV Home theatre help!

[hazeyo]

Hi all.
Unfortunately my dog ran into my prior sound system hooked up to my LG tv, completely snapping the aux port. There is no sound out of my tv now due to the fact it thinks there is an auxiliary cable still inserted but I was wondering, if I connected a digital optical cable from my TV to my current home cinema system, would audio still play out of the system or would the broken headphone connection block the output to the digital optical cable? May be a stupid question, just thought I'd consult someone with a bit more techsmart. Cheers

 

[ssddx]

the problem is that on many devices connecting a headphone automatically defaults the device to using the jack as the output. you might be able to manually disable the headphone jack and manually enable the optical jack however you will need to check if you are able to do this or not.

if the 3.5mm plug snapped off inside the port (if there is still a piece inside) there are videos on youtube with some potential remedies to pull it out which you should try if there is a piece stuck inside.

 

[hazeyo]

@ssddx I have no clue how to use this site. When I said the aux input is snapped I meant actually on the tv rather than the aux cable it's self

 

[madmatt30]

Normally optical out is an 'always on' output irregardless of the headphone socket.
Id be 99.999% certain it will still work.

 

[madmatt30]

Also on every lg set I've owned there is an option to switch the 3.5mm jack between headphone & straight audio out - switching to audio out should also enable the TV speakers.

 

[hazeyo]

@madmatt30 I believe it should work too but I thought I'd get second opinions. I have looked through audio settings but there are no clear settings to switch outputs and half of the sound settings aren't selectable due to the fact its 'connected to a headset'. Thanks for the answer man