When I am using the SONY wireless stereo headphone system (WH-RF400) to watch TV, can someone else watch and hear the TV with me? In other words, is it possible to have the sound come both through the headset and TV? null

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Catmama · Accepted Answer

Absolutely. We bought them so my husband can hear the tv without having to have the volume up so loud and we can both hear at a comfortable range.

spartan1 · Answer

YES, you can hear the sound in the headphone and outside TV sound unless you turn the tv down , then you just hear it in the headphone.

OldEars · Answer

Probably depends on the TV. I have a new Samsung NU8000 TV that only supports one sound output at a time. Hook up any AUX output or optical output and the TV's internal speakers go dead. I confirmed this behavior with Samsung as what is intended. Still looking for an answer.

Answered by OldEars 7 years ago

betteranswer · Answer

If you have a cable box with RCA jack output, just plug the headphone base RCA cables into the RCA jacks on the back of the cable box and it works perfectly without having to worry about the TV output jack settings or volume.

Answered by betteranswer 6 years ago

Purrl · Answer

Yes, and the television volume can be turned up or down without changing the sound in the headphones

Transylvanian · Answer

with most TVs, computer monitors or combination TV/computer monitors, if you plug the supplied 3.5 mm mini-pin chord into the headphone port the sound is sent entirely through that port and the TV's speakers are disabled.

Answered by Transylvanian 7 years ago

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SamT · Answer

I am asking a similar question but dont know where else to ask it. 
can the volumnes be changed indepentantly from each other, headphones and stereo system symotaneously?
My older sony tv had headphone jack in the back that I used a Aluratek - Bluetooth Wireless Audio Transmitter and Receive to be able to split the sound control, buy my new sony 85" does not come with the headphone jack and Sony said this would be because it is optical instead of bluetooth.
if anyone is using this setup like I am, please tell me if it works before I buy it. 
I am a little hard of hearing and my wife is not, this was the answer for our separate listening issues watching the same movie. 
thank you for your input.

Simonie · Answer

Yes, TV can even be on mute and the person using the headphones can still hear the TV.

Funsize · Answer

Yes - one can wear the headphones and another can hear same program without them

Mark · Answer

It depends on how old your computer, TV, phone, radio, etc. is. The newer ones pretty much all only allow one output, so if you plug this into the jack then the speakers will go dead. The older ones may also do this, and you may need to get wires to fit the TV's audio output that also merge into this headset's input. But on occasion an older one may allow both. 

If it so happens that you cannot listen to both at the same time, then the cure for this is to look on the internet to order a "signal splitter or switcher" that has as it's "signal input" a hole that fit's this unit's "output" hole, and that also has then going out of it, "downstream" as it were, two or more output jacks: a hole or "jack" that fits this headphone's input hole and then one other lead to match another, external speaker (which means you also need an external speaker to plug it into). It's a little messier but we do it with our computer and also our Samsung TV (messy with the TV because the TV output is an "optical audio" cable and it is a mess getting it transformed into a traditional audio signal) because you can only get a single "optical audio" signal coming out of the TV for sound. Messy, but it works. She doesn't hear well and I do, so she does the headphones and I use the regular speakers.

wolfman · Answer

Yes.

“When I am using the SONY wireless stereo headphone system (WH-RF400) to watch TV, can someone else watch and hear the TV with me? In other words, is it possible to have the sound come both through the headset and TV?”

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