I have spoken with two Dell support reps on the phone about this but I am still uneasy about the responses. Didn't feel confident enough to go ahead and buy the monitor. I'm looking at the U2415. I want to connect my TV box to one of the HDMI ports on the monitor, and then I want to pull the audio signal from the monitors "Audio Line Out" and send that to my home audio system. However, after reading the specs on Dell's website and also downloading and reading the monitor's manual, I found discrepancies. The specs say you can connect your own speakers to the audio line out. However, the manual says "headphones are not compatible with the audio line out". And, there is also an indication that the audio line out may only work with Dell's Sound Bar. If one can connect any normal speakers to the line out, why wouldn't headphones work? This concerns me. So the real question is, does the U2415 decode the HDMI audio coming in and then route an analog audio signal to the audio line out, or not. Is the signal coming out of the audio line out on the monitor an analog signal or a digital signal. Any help greatly appreciated and thanks a bunch in advance.
- Noel