How to connect headphones to the Samsung UE40J5000AU TV?
Good afternoon, complete frustration and sadness…. year ago gave my mother a TV Samsung UE40J5000AU, everything is great, but there is a need to connect headphones (wakes up the neighbors at night) and there is a problem, because it hangs on the wall, the ability to plug the wire every time exactly no (there is a socket), the TV does not switch to an external source, bluetooth built-in no….. ready to do anything (I do not understand what) that there was a possibility of wireless headphones…. do not sell the same TV.
Help please. Official Samsung waves away.
Answer
Good day. There are not many options. Since the TV Samsung UE40J5000AU has no Smart TV, you can’t connect even a branded, external Bluetooth adapter to it. Well, and Bluetooth headphones, respectively, too.
Although, there are 3.5mm Bluetooth adapters. Which are plugged into the headphone jack, and to the adapter already connect any wireless headphones via Bluetooth. They look something like this:
But in your case it will not work either, as it will always be plugged into the headphone jack and the sound will not be heard through the speakers. Just like in the case of regular wired headphones.
I think in your case the easiest thing to do is to buy a 3.5mm extension cord. Connect it to the TV, and connect headphones to it if necessary, or the same 3.5 mm Bluetooth adapter.
But I just do not know if the sound on the speakers will not be lost when you connect the extension cord to the TV without headphones. I can’t check, I don’t have such an extension cord. I would need to check this with support.
And you didn’t ask Samsung support, didn’t look at the settings yourself, there is definitely no possibility to output sound to external speakers when headphones are connected?
In general, it seems to me that when you plug even an adapter into the TV socket, it mechanically mutes the sound on the speakers. And there is nothing you can do about it.
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Ramón