So I buy the 5 year extended warranties, and look at it like a 5 year rental. I have learned the new TV panels and backlights fail way too often. I am either using the Cox Contour remote, or the Amazion Fire TV remote, so never touch the Samsung remote unless forced into settings. I am not really interested in the TV being "smart", other than I want it to keep up with it's updates with wifi. Other than the extra $, I actually like this solution. The simultaneious soundbar, two BT headsets functionality was more important to me. so not sure what that means, just know the new soundbar sounds good and beats the TV speakers. Note: looks like I lost some audio setting options you get with HDMI arc (Dolby ?), and am locked into PCM. Still have the one 10 ft HDMI clc cable in the wall to connect TV to Cox DVR. after a week of research, removing the HDMI (arc) and RCA extension from the wall and wall mounting kit, and replacing with 10 ft optical cable (CLC). Samsung TV and soundbar turn off and on together. I actually prefer the lightweight RF headset for the times I just need to bypass regular channels (news), so I hooked the RF base to the Cox DVR. We tend to only use the headsets when we are binging on series, so I just leave the BT Transmitter off and flip it on when we need it. It is working perfectly for two headsets (actually my new BT headset and wife earbuds), and both in aptx low latency (no lag). I bought the same splitter that you did, but am using this BT Transmitter ( ). Then googling, videos, and finally saw your post. Samsung terrible user manual, several calls, finally figured out how the "multi speaker" setting worked. The 7100 TV has a RCA out white/red port. I ran 10 ft HDMI and 10 ft RCA through the wall, assuming it all would work like the TV before. Vizio (on legs, no soundbar just TV speakers) backlight died, so bought new Samsung TV (UN55RU7100FXZA) and Samsung Soundbar 2.1 HW-R450, and prepared wall mounting. The headsets also worked connected to the Cox DVR for HDMI 1, but obviously were not available on Fire TV HDMI 2, so kept it connected to TV. We were good to go before with the Vizio that just died with RF headsets with a base/charger unit connected with RCA (white/red) to the TV. sometimes we both want to use a headset, sometimes just one (so they need the TV or soundbar volume), sometimes just the TV/Soundbar. I just wanted to say thanks for posting about the optical splitting solution for the soundbar and headsets.
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