TurnThePage wrote:
If you're serious about it, buy a replacement head unit.
It's been a few years, before much of the cool new tech was available, but the JVC stereo I installed in the RV had a rear input audio jack. I routed the digital toslink from the TV, to a converter, then to that rear input. I have to turn up the volume a little, but it works nicely and is out of view.
We actually use it that way a lot. Blueray/DVD/whatever to TV to Stereo. Many pleasant evenings.
D-->A convertor will be here Tuesday.
WRT head unit... Available technology is so last century :( My music and video collection to completely digitized. I'd love to put in a nice surround sound system... but think that's going to wait for now.
At least for now, the digitized playback will come from an 8TB hard drive connected directly to the TV USB. Optical output through D-->A to the POS radio to feed the built in speakers... which I'm going to have to rewire. Outdoor speakers are wired to the same output as the bed speakers. Not sure that was thought through.