Apple TV and Samsung TV with no Bluetooth

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Apple TV and Samsung TV with no Bluetooth

Main Question: Does Apple TV act as a bluetooth transmitter and does the TV have to have bluetooth?

My question is my friend has a Samsung TV that does NOT have bluetooth. I'm trying to figure out which is the best Bluetooth Transmitter to get. They all have some very bad reviews . She does have a brand new pair of 3rd Gen Airpods but we cannot pair with her TV. I've gone into the secret/service menu and could not enable it because it just doesn't have the capability. I checked with Samsung.

I have an Apple TV4k box love it. I also have a Samsung smart tv and older one. I had to go into the service menu on the tv to enable the bluetooth. My AirPods 2 work great and I can control the volume via the Apple TV remote.

Apple TV 4K, tvOS 15

Posted on Jan 18, 2022 12:23 PM

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GreeniusGenius

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Jan 18, 2022 12:26 PM in response to Big Strings

Apple TV can deal with the AirPods like any other Apple device, nice and seamlessly. Yes, it has bluetooth. No, of course the TV doesn’t need to have bluetooth to play audio via the Apple TV box.

You can’t output anything not being played on the Apple TV box to the AirPods using this method (as in, using the smart TV, you won’t be able to use your AirPods, but now you have the Apple TV anyways.)

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Apple TV and Samsung TV with no Bluetooth

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