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Posted by tlea (A) on January 10, 2014 at 18:44:28

Hello, I have been an AA member for a decade but this is my first post in the Video forum. Unfortunately it is going to be a bit of a rant.

I am in the process of downsizing and moving to a new place. I got a new Panasonic LED TV for Christmas to replace my ancient Sony and decided to connect it to my main stereo system to eliminate a separate HT system to help with the consolidation. What I discovered is that the audio outputs from the TV, both digital (Toslink) and analog (RCA), are fixed volume, not controlled by the TV volume control. So if one wants to adjust the volume it can't be done with the TV remote if the audio is connected to an external system. (My stereo system has no remote capability.) I did some online searching and found that this is normal in the television world, even in 2014.

My question is: why would the designers choose to disconnect the audio output from the TV volume control? Seems logical to me that you would link the volume control to the outputs so that external powered speakers could be connected. The sound quality of the TV itself is so awful that I assume it was intended to be nominal.

What am I missing here?



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