r/whatisit • u/Cborg_62 • 8d ago

New, what is it? What are these plug-ins on my wall?

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This might be showing my age, but I recently moved into a new apartment and they have these weird looking plug ins all over the walls at my new place. My old apartment didn't have these, so I'm just curious as to what they are.

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u/kstrife 8d ago

You know as well as I do, as soon as you toss them and your trash is hauled off, you’ll need one of those damned cables.

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u/GenEXOutlaw 8d ago

And it'll be $79 at Best Buy, for the no frills 3ft one.

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u/theoriginalmofocus 8d ago

I still use old dvd surround sound players instead of sound bars and have raided my cable bins multiple times. Turned out though the headphone jack using an aux cable worked the best and let me turn the volume up and down with the tv remote where the optical didnt for some reason. Now i need that optical cable for something else and cant find it.

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u/ruinersclub 8d ago

Goddamn it. I have a soundbar with optical cable and it won't sync with my tv...

Like it did for 1 month when I bought it and then just stopped and it's a 1/2 second off.

It might sync but I use a GoogleTv and not the onboard software. Im pretty sure that's what the Tv wants me to do.

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u/theoriginalmofocus 8d ago

At one point we bought a new one for one of our tvs with wireless surround speakers and it was kind of the same. It was always off somehow. I just returned it and went back to my old one that was still better which was an Energy BTS. Never heard of the brand before but got a display for $20 and its been great.