Aviators Headset Question

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by cirelaw

Debby just bought a 55' at Walmart for $255 on sale!
https://www.walmart.com/browse/elect...489948_3168047

Originally Posted by sheepherder

My nephew bought a 65" and told me he'd bring his 3-yr old 55" down to me when next he comes. I did see a 55" Sceptre on Wal-Mart site for $364 and I thought that was a deal.

Well, after using the big-screen LED TV my nephew dropped off some 6-8 weeks ago and loving it, this morning it failed to launch. I did what little trouble shooting I could and found that it was getting power to the input jack but then...nothing...

I had last watched a movie last night ("A Quiet Place") and shut it down afterward. No hint of a problem. It's an Olevia and the company is no longer in business and parts are, I'm sure, problematic, even if there was a repair shop around here. The last one closed up in Spring 2020.

I had just ordered that piggyback music adapter for my helicopter headphones.

So, undeterred, I took my ignorance in hand and headed to the Internet! To Wal-Mart Online, specifically. I decided to take Eric & Debbie's suggestion/hint and ordered a 55" Sceptre LED TV. (If you can't believe a lawyer, who can you believe???) The same $364 one I priced when Eric posted. It's not the 'smart' model, just the base 4K UHD LED TV. Should be here next week.

I have a Scepter 35" LED TV and like it. The picture is much sharper than my RCA LED 35" w/DVD player, and the sound is much better too. I have a DVI-to-HDMI adapter cable for my port replicator to TV connection, so I can play DVD movies on my laptop and watch the movies on my TV. Works great, although the audio leaves much to be desired (hard to fit BOSE quality in a laptop).

So now I'm waiting for the 55"er and watching the 35"er. I had "The Racers" (1955, Kirk Douglas, a classic) ready to watch but I'll wait for the 55" to arrive. Much more enjoyable on the big screen, I'm sure!

Thanks for the tip, Eric!

[sheepherder]

I got the adapter in the mail and FedEx delivered my new 55" TV, so I've been experimenting with various setups and have everything running nicely!

Right now I have a laptop hooked up to the TV via a DVI-to-HDMI cable (no HDMI on my Dell D630 laptops) and the helicopter headset connected to the laptop via the adapter cable. In the pic below I'm playing a short movie on the laptop and watching it on the big TV. Glorious!

A big Thanks! to spangy/Greg! The headset cable is a bit ungainly (no pun intended) but I can live with it. I don't expect to ever fly a UH1-E but I like to leave things intact so I'll refrain from clipping off the 'copter jack.

Eventually I'll move the laptop setup to the computer room so I can send images/movies right from the Internet to the 55" TV. Or DVD movies. Or YouTube. Or UConn Womens Basketball, streamed live.

Edit: For most TV series, sports, news, I'll run the 3.5mm TV headphone jack to a pair of PC speakers next to my couch. This TV has rearward-facing internal speakers which to me distorts the sound. The Avevia had forward-facing internal speakers which added to the overall width but sounded great.