What is an audio input for?

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hak

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Ok I have the Acer H243H and I hooked up my headphones to the audio input and got no sound. I know its a pretty dumb question but what is it used for? Thanks.
 
Hook it up with an HDMI cable to a console and you will get sound. If you are just hooked up to a PC via DVI you would have to use a 3.5mm sound cable i believe, or your card needs to suppourt HDMI sound output. You also need to turn up the volume but you probably thought of that.
 
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Hook it up with an HDMI cable to a console and you will get sound. If you are just hooked up to a PC via DVI you would have to use a 3.5mm sound cable i believe, or your card needs to suppourt HDMI sound output. You also need to turn up the volume but you probably thought of that.
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I too prefer this suggestion.
 
I have my 360 hooked up HDMI and I put my Audio technica AD700s in the audio in jack on the back of the monitor with the volume all the way up and theres still no sound. I dunno what im doing wrong.???
 
Audio in is for sending audio into the monitor not for headphones.
 
hak said:
I have my 360 hooked up HDMI and I put my Audio technica AD700s in the audio in jack on the back of the monitor with the volume all the way up and theres still no sound. I dunno what im doing wrong.???
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Doesn't the Acer have 2 headphone jacks 1 on the front/side 1 on the back? Use the one on the front/side that is audio out it should work with your headphones sense you are using the 360 via HDMI. Maybe there is some weird OSD setting where you have to enable it
 
Nope theres only 1 audio port and thats the audio in on the back.

If i cant use headphones what the hell can i hook up to the audio in?

sorry for the stupid questions but i really dont know what its for lol.
 
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Mabey for something like the xbox360 vga cables and you plug left/right sound into the audio jack.
 
The monitor looks to have built in speakers. Audio in would be for running from inputs that don't provide sound like VGA and DVI.
 
Okay, you seem to be a little confused...

For any and all audio component / device "Audio-In" means a connection that is setup to receive audio signals to be outputted via speakers / headphones. "Audio-Out" means the device sends out an audio signal via that connection. Therefore, hooking up a set of headphones to an "Audio-In" jack results in no audio at all.

The "Audio-In" on the Acer H243H is strictly for the integrated speakers. If you want to listen to audio with your headphones then you need to connect them directly to your sound card, unless the Acer H243H has an "Audio-Out" jack; which it does not.
 
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