My mom will be 100 in less than a month. Her old TV upstairs has a long stereo cable out the back, connected to a pair of headphones with an audio control. It works. But not on anything with Roku connected— not the sound bar, the Ultra or the stick. I was desperately hoping that when she watches TV with me downstairs, she could have a headset with no wires. ROKU, we are ALL counting on you to make our lives easier…and, mostly, you have done it. PLEASE consider the hard of hearing! Dementia makes it impossible to fiddle with an iphone controller. THANK YOU for your almost fantastic product.
Does anyone know if Roku is listening to these complaints? Simultaneously listening would be wonderful for me and my family. Please Roku make this happen.
The better adaptation is probably not Roku.
If the TV has an audio out (RCA or similar, or optical) then that can be connected to:
A/ permanently installed T-loop system for hearing aids (specialist supplier). There are also systems that use a microphone placed close to TV
B/ amplifier and wireless hi fi type headphones
It may also be possible to find boxes which take audio in and then connect to Bluetooth headphones.
This would work for anything on the TV and would be simpler for people with impairments to use.
I appreciate your response but the idea is to have the Roku so that I can use their DVR type system with expanded programming instead of the cable DVR as I am presently using. I already have the system you describe and have no problems using my current cable service.
If you already have sound coming out of TV to amp/assistive devices then the sound from the Roku plugged into TV should also be audible from the audio equipment connected to TV?
Your solution doesn't work with the Roku Streambar on our Samsung tv. I have headphones attached to the audio out from the tv but when playing video from the Roku Streambar no sound. Is there a way to fix this? Our TV is older (2012) so is it to do with the type of HDMI it has?
