It’s pretty ironic to have problems with audio not recognizing headphones… on WINDOWS.

Multi-trillion (10^12) dollar company, btw.

(Both laptops are reasonably new.)

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I would make fun of you for using toslink but eARC is such a scam that I don’t know why they didn’t just bother to upgrade toslink anyway.

    I think they’re lying when they say it can’t handle the bandwidth. It’s a fricken fiber optic cable, just bump the transmitter.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      So… what do you use for audio output on a desktop? Because I feed my monitor with the DisplayPort output from my graphics card, and I’m definitely not running a separate HDMI just for the audio signal. Even with 5.1 channel outputs, the 3.5mm audio on the motherboard is not up to the quality of the optical audio output, and besides that’s 5 copper cables to run instead of one fiber. My soundbar has an optical input. The optical output is the only thing that makes sense.

    • ShankShill@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 day ago

      I had a Samsung TV and Samsung home theater in a box as my first 4k setup. The last update to the TV broke eARC.

      Just wanted to throw out at every opportunity why I will not buy a Samsung anything.