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so you like to watch TV at night while others are trying to sleep or maybe you prefer to block out the noise of your surroundings while you watch your favorite show connecting wireless headphones to your television doesn't have to be difficult and there's a number of ways you can pull it off regardless of what television you have here are four of the easiest ways one of the most straightforward ways is purchasing a pair of dedicated headphones that are built for televisions these typically come with a base station and connect to your television using a 3.5 millimeter jack RCA cable or optical and they work over radio frequency instead of Bluetooth which comes with one major benefit range radio frequency headphones typically have a range of about 300 feet when they're unobstructed you can find these radio frequency wireless headphones for your television for anywhere from twenty to three hundred dollars and the audio quality will vary greatly having a dedicated pair of wireless headphones for your television might have its own advantages but if you've already got a pair of bluetooth headphones you can actually connect those to your TV and it might cost you a lot less most televisions don't come with Bluetooth built in but all you really need is a Bluetooth transmitter which you can find online or at a local retailer for as little as fifteen dollars basically this takes the analog or optical audio signal from your television and transmits it using bluetooth so all you need to do is connect this to your television pair some Bluetooth headphones and begin watching Apple TV fire TV fire TV stick and some Android TV streamers allow you to connect bluetooth headphones for private listening however some Android TV boxes only support bluetooth for keyboard and mouse input and depending on which model of Roku and Roku remote you have you can either use private listening through the Roku app or plug wired headphones into the headphone jack in the remote the Roku 3 roku premier plus roku 4 and roku ultra all feature this in their remotes and finally if you have a gaming console plugged into your television you may also be able to use that for wireless audio unfortunately bluetooth support for PlayStation 4 is limited to specific headsets and Xbox one doesn't support bluetooth at all your best bet with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one is simply plugging wired headphones into the 3.5 millimeter jack and the controllers some Xbox one controllers have a 3.5 millimeter jack built-in while others may require an adapter for more tips and tricks and other how to's be sure to check out CNN /how to