I recently bought a 50 quid JVC sound bar. Initialy used a 3.5 mm Jack from headphone socket, but then bought an optical cable, I started to notice when watching American Dad and Family guy the mouths would animate open but no words would broadcast and the sentence often didn't quite make sense. Today I watched a recorded episode of Family Guy and God asked Peter a question and Peters mouth opened and nowt was heard..."sod this" I thought. Set TV back to internal speakers (oh the tinnyness of it...bleh) and Peter said "pass".....set TV to headphone output to soundbar...and Peter still said "pass"....set TV to optical cable to soundbar and peter said "....." mouth moved no sounds...what the hell? Is this an Optical cable thing or a TV setting thing? Anyone else get this?
General / Off-Topic why is my optical cable censoring family guy/american dad?
- Thread starter Leper Messiah
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I think it has to do with the channels, it's either 5.1 or 7.1 Dolby and when you plug optical it separates the channels. Your setup might just not be suited for that.
Try to set the channels to 2.0 Stereo, should work then.
Many thanks both....heh I noticed it on some adverts as well...here I was thinking the lst 3 letters of "pass" was the problem!
Havn't tried yet, will delve into TV settings later tonight.
Cool let us know if it works!
Tried last night but darn TV, all but 2 settings are greyed out when connected to soundbar via optical cable so limited adjusting available and what I could adjust did nowt. Will have a gander at the manual later today. It's a cheapo Sound bar, could that be the issue?
And if you adjust the settings on the output device?
Can't say whether it'S the soundbar, i have too little info on that.
Try setting your BD Player or the media to 2.0 first.
No player just cable from TV to Sound bar....will have a look at the sound bar settings as well later. thanks once again.
bah...sod it, can't find a way to adjust output from my damn TV and the sound bar has no real options. I'll just output Via headphone socket as that work ok and I can mute/adjust volume from the TV remote as a bonus!
second time modern tech as bit me on the butt.
second time modern tech as bit me on the butt.
Why not contact the customer service to explain the situation and ask for answers ? Maybe they have the solution ?
Sorry to hear that :/
