[Mr.Mister]

I have a Samsung HTD5330 home theater speaker system and a Acer Aspire 5250-BZ479 laptop. This laptop has two USB 2.0 slots and no HDMI ports. I just want music on YouTube or whatever website I'm on to play through those speakers and NOT the laptop speakers. I don't want this connected to a TV. I would like to find a proper adapater before my birthday party this weekend. I've been to a few computer shops and nobody has a f*ckin clue

Anyone wanna point me in the right direction?

[Ryan]

USB to HDMI converters are expensive, and there's no other way you'll be able to play music from the USB ports. Assuming your laptop has a headphone jack, the simplest solution to me sounds like just getting a 3.5mm audio cable and going from your laptop's headphone output to the stereo systems input.

[Otter]

Yes. By far, the simplest solution. Kind of disappointed that nobody in store offered you that solution.

Another route you could go, were you feeling adventurous and have the cash to spare, is to buy the apple TV. Wireless, and your friends can play music from their iphones if you wanna let them. Really only works if your music is managed through iTunes, though.

And I'm sure there's another solution along the same lines. I just find the ATV's size (4 inches square!), price (100!), and convenience (airplay!) to be a winning combo. Plus, renting movies on iTunes is cheaper and higher quality than Rogers, Bell, Telus or Shaw.

...but go with the 1/4" adapter. 5$ for a massive cable if you've got a local NCIX.

[Slamman]

I don't know all the Aspire's personally, but I shopped around for various upgrades, I use an Acer 4710 I picked up used, the board is made by Wistron, and Acer uses mobos made by several of the notable OEMs like Quanta, I say this because the design is varied but shared among some diverse models all made by the same Asian company making mainboards. If your laptop says DOLBY DIGITAL, it can decode it already, I believe, mine is Dolby Digital Live, designed for gaming, in fact, and the best option is actually the shared digital and analog headphone jack near the mic and Aux jacks, I believe Acer has AUX and MIC inputs supported. Rather then move from S-video DIN to HDMI, the upper models, a few years back had DVI ports for HD video output, realize however, you don't get audio via that method, but the TOSLINK optical out SHOULD be there, look for a SPDIF spec on your notebooks' assets

[Wolf68k]

QUOTE (Slamman @ Monday, May 28 2012, 15:40)

I don't know all the Aspire's personally, but I shopped around for various upgrades, I use an Acer 4710 I picked up used, the board is made by Wistron, and Acer uses mobos made by several of the notable OEMs like Quanta, I say this because the design is varied but shared among some diverse models all made by the same Asian company making mainboards. If your laptop says DOLBY DIGITAL, it can decode it already, I believe, mine is Dolby Digital Live, designed for gaming, in fact, and the best option is actually the shared digital and analog headphone jack near the mic and Aux jacks, I believe Acer has AUX and MIC inputs supported. Rather then move from S-video DIN to HDMI, the upper models, a few years back had DVI ports for HD video output, realize however, you don't get audio via that method, but the TOSLINK optical out SHOULD be there, look for a SPDIF spec on your notebooks' assets

Why would his laptop have digital audio out like TOSLINK or SPDIF when it doesn't have digital video out (HDMI)?
It took 5 seconds on Google to get the specs and know that those ports on the laptop. You read so much computer PC but you can't take 5 seconds to look specs for a laptop when the make and model are given to you?
I won't even begin on the first 90% of your post and how it has nothing to do with anything related to the topic.



@Mr.Mister
I'm sorry to have to do that. If you understood and like what he had to say then I'll stay out of your topics and let Slamman do whatever he pleases in them.
As it is, that is to say on topic; I agree with Ryan. You should be able to easily find a 3.5mm stereo to stereo RCA cable. Look on the back for AUX IN.
I couldn't find a HTD5330 on Samsung's website. There is a HT-D5300 and HT-D550.

[DeeperRed]

Like I otter I am surprised not a single person in the store said to just use the headphone socket though if I am thinking correctly this only outputs stereo sound. So while the music will be played through all speakers it won't be proper 5.1 surround sound (Not that Youtube offers that anyway)

[Slamman]

Found this link, how old is this I'd ask off hand, your stereo and it's jack pack for example, a good thing to help link peeps to here

http://www.computerliquidators.ca/acer-asp...efurbished.html
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On eBay, not much help with their feature sticker, again, I said my Acer is a 4 series, it's at that time, 15.4 or 14.1 I believe, the 15.6 inch widescreens came later, and of course DDR3 supporting boards, but my Acer isn't the only one using Dolby Digital surround sound encoding and believe me, the miniature speakers on the laptop aren't going to deliver the surround, you need Toslink digital to get it to a proper surround system, you simply tether your laptop in that manner, nearby, it can then pipe the HD Radeon video out via VGA port, the display is being prompted as HD compliant.
Note the English silkscreen text, a tip off of origins. See on the upper left two phone jacks, one mic, one for headphone I suspect, and no AUX. Seems this is a more able GPU version of a Netbook, the Intel side being Atom, which I think has expanded to dual cores now, but it doesn't appear a bad compromise for the price.

I'd try gaming on it, Shader Model 5 supported, Direct X 11?!? Sounds pretty good on paper
As for HD audio though, I was recalling that term is bandied about far too often to take as serious audio, HD audio can refer to 2 channels only!

This post has been edited by Wolf68k on Tuesday, May 29 2012, 16:01

[Wolf68k]

QUOTE (DeeperRed @ Monday, May 28 2012, 16:24)

Like I otter I am surprised not a single person in the store said to just use the headphone socket though if I am thinking correctly this only outputs stereo sound. So while the music will be played through all speakers it won't be proper 5.1 surround sound (Not that Youtube offers that anyway)

True that the surround system will naturally only do stereo sound from stereo audio, however if that HTS is anything like mine (which is also Samsung there is a Music mode which will use all of the speakers, as well as a Matrix mode which also uses all of the speakers but in a different way.

And yes I laughed so hard once when I searched YT for something about 5.1 and see the huge number of people claiming to have a 5.1 test when YT doesn't support 5.1. What makes me weep is the number of people commenting that say it works for them on their systems.