Hi everyone,

I recently bought a Samsung smart TV and have currently 3 connections to it. 1 is my PlayStation 4 1 android box and 1 cable TV. So these three are connected to the TV via HDMI cables. 

On the audio side, I have an sb26 soundbar which was initially connected via an optical cable to the TV which really helped simplify my sound. 

Unfortunately, about a month or two ago, the soundbar randomly stopped working via the optical cable (for some reason). The cables looked good (I tried a second optical cable incase the first was damaged but it also did not have any audio). 

To bypass this, I connected the TV to the soundbar via Bluetooth connection to the soundbar. This worked fine for awhile until a few days ago when I started noticing a cut in the audio in between people talking (the background noise would just go until someone started talking).

This is as you can imagine quite annoying... I am not sure what the problem is which is why I am hoping you lovely people can help me out. 

Do you think it is a soundbar issue or a TV issue? Any way you know how I can get the optical connection working again?  Any help would be immensely appreciated! Thanks for your support in advance! 

P.S. Does anyone know what to do if the sb26 remote is lost?