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playbar and new tv

  • December 15, 2025
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Hi 

I have a playbar with an optic output but my new Samsung TV only has an HDMI output and no optical. I tried connecting the playbar with an original Sonos Optical Audio Adapter with a male optical cord to the playbar and HDMI to hdmi input in the other end for the arc entrance on the TV - but it does not work. Sonos support can not help as they do not have a cord the works between the optical in Sonos and the hdmi in the TV. They say I might need a female optical to connect to the original optical/optical cord - with a HDMI input the other end (playbar male optical to female optical to hdmi to tv) but they do not know it it will work. Any suggestions? 

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jgatie
  • December 15, 2025

The Sonos adapter is optical to HDMI, not the other way.  You need a generic HDMI to optical converter, like this:

avedio links HDMI ARC Audio Extractor Converter 4K@60Hz, HDMI to Optical Toslink SPDIF


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  • Contributor I
  • December 15, 2025

The Sonos adapter is optical to HDMI, not the other way.  You need a generic HDMI to optical converter, like this:

avedio links HDMI ARC Audio Extractor Converter 4K@60Hz, HDMI to Optical Toslink SPDIF


thanks - I’ll try that. Is it a suggestion or do you know if I actually works? 


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  • Contributor I
  • December 15, 2025

thanks - I’ll try that. Is it a suggestion or do you know if I actually works? 


jgatie
  • December 15, 2025

thanks - I’ll try that. Is it a suggestion or do you know if I actually works? 

 

I have no personal experience, but according to the product description, it should work.


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  • Contributor I
  • December 15, 2025

Thank you very much. I’ll try 


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  • Collaborator II
  • December 15, 2025

@RikkeBrocks I have no experience of that particular converter but I used a very similar one to split out the optical from HDMI for many years on my PlayBar and it worked a treat 👍


106rallye
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  • December 16, 2025

For future readers; the Playbar has an optical input, not an output.


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  • Contributor I
  • December 16, 2025

Thanks guys - i found these two to ship here in Denmark - are they the same/the right ones (output/input-wise)? 
https://www.av-cables.dk/billedkabler/hdmi-kabel/hdmi-extractor/delock-hdmi-lyd-extractor-4k-60hz


https://www.av-cables.dk/billedkabler/hdmi-kabel/hdmi-extractor/hdmi-ekstraktor

 

Quite a big difference in price and size and I need to hide it behind the tv  


Thanks in advance - and sorry if it is obvious - I’m just not so much into tech….


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  • Collaborator II
  • December 16, 2025

@RikkeBrocks They look OK, for reference, but no longer available, this was the one I used (from 2015 to a couple of months ago):

LINDY HDMI 4K Audio Extractor…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SAYO8Y2?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share