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... Had that issue. The answer is that there is no headphone jack on the TV for a standard 3.5 mil plug. There are instead two analog audio outputs (left and right channel RCA) like the kind you would use with a component system, so what used to be and often still is a white and red plug combination that would typically go from the tv to a standard amplifier input. And there is an optical cable out, which is the standard optical cable for audio. So this is an adapter issue if you are trying to connect to a sound system that will accept a 3.5 mil "headphone jack" cable, or if you want to plug in actual headphones. I wanted both... I use a powered speaker unit that has a headphone jack connector for audio in, like most bluetooth speaker units have for when bluetooth is unsuccessful/unnecessary, and I want to switch to headphones sometimes. I used an adapter which has the two analog audio plugs on one end for the tv (red and white for left/right stereo) and the 3.5 mil headphone plug on the other for the sound device. I can use a splitter and put headphones on it by turning the other sound device off. The TV has figured out how to use that and the sound has been good. You can get an optical adapter also, but since I didn't go that route, I don't know about splitting it the way I did. There are price and availability issues with either. It was an issue for me when buying the tv because this stuff can get pricey, like it started making me look at next price points on other tvs so that I could keep using my headphone jack dependent sound device. If you are using an older non bluetooth device like I am, with a headphone jack audio in, this part of getting the tv is a pain. I am still thinking it was worth it, but I happened to have the adapter cable already.
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