I see no link to the product manual so I'm left to guess you need one of those optical to stereo convertors. Some folk are upset the new set uses a mini-jack rather headphones so a small convertor is used for that.
Bob
I bought a Viera Smart TV TX-L42WT50B and want to put the audio output through my Sony TA-FA3ES Integrated Stereo Amplifier. I managed this perfectly well with my previous Viera TV which had audio outputs but the 50B does not have these outputs.
Can anyone help?

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