{"id":1188,"date":"2016-06-04T06:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T10:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2016-06-04T06:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T10:28:03","slug":"use-a-projector-with-sonos-play-bar-and-surround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Use a projector with Sonos Play bar and Surround"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I first learned about the Sonos Playbar and its ability to connect with other speakers to create a surround sound system I was pretty excited. \u00a0I discovered however that the only means of input for sound to the Playbar was via an optical cable. \u00a0That means that the Playbar can only be connected to a more modern TV, not older TV’s and Projectors that typically don’t have this type of output. \u00a0Or does it…?<\/p>\n

I did a little research, forum reading and called Sonos support and found out that others were having luck with HDMI switches. \u00a0This is how it works and you may need to glance up at the diagram as I explain. \u00a0Since the projector I have doesn’t have optical out, I would need a device that could supply a video signal to the projector and audio signal to the Playbar (optical) and the signals need to travel on separate wires. \u00a0So the J-Tech switch has just that ability. \u00a0It allows up to 5 HDMI sources to be connected which was more than enough for my needs. \u00a0From there it takes the incoming signal and pulls the audio off and sends it back out with the optical output. \u00a0 You can choose “pass-thru”, “stereo” or “5.1” mode with the optical output. \u00a0Additionally the original HDMI input gets channeled to the HDMI out (with audio) to the projector. \u00a0Now you have satisfied the Playbar’s needs and supplied video to the projector.<\/p>\n

Possible issues could come up from this arrangement. \u00a0Some switches might impose a little “lag” or delay in audio which could be distracting while watching video. \u00a0Luckily my model did not cause any issues.<\/p>\n

Good luck with your setup and feel free to comment or ask questions.<\/p>\n

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When I first learned about the Sonos Playbar and its ability to connect with other speakers to create a surround sound system I was pretty excited. \u00a0I discovered however that the only means of input for sound to the Playbar was via an optical cable. \u00a0That means that the Playbar can only be connected to a more modern TV, not older TV’s and Projectors that typically don’t have this type of output. \u00a0Or does it…? I did a little research, forum reading and called Sonos support and found out that others were having luck with HDMI switches. \u00a0This is how it works and you may need to glance up at the diagram as I explain. \u00a0Since the projector I have doesn’t have optical out, I would need a device that could supply a video signal to the projector and audio signal to the Playbar (optical) and the signals need to travel on separate wires. \u00a0So the J-Tech switch has just that ability. \u00a0It allows up to 5 HDMI sources to be connected which was more than enough for my needs. \u00a0From there it takes the incoming signal and pulls the audio off and sends it back out with the optical \u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,187,183,171,124,186,184],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yourtypicalguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sonos-5.1-Projector.001.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RysV-ja","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}