Although it often refers to the optical TOSLINK cable, there are four cable types supported by the S/PDIF specification. See S/PDIF. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

Anoy hoy!<P>I just bought an AR optical cable so I could make use of the digital output on my Audigy card (for digital recording on my MZ-R37 Minidisc). <P>Up to this point, I was able to use the ...

The best-known ways to transmit a digital audio signal (S/PDIF) are to use a standard 75Ω coaxial cable or Toslink optical modules with matching optical cable. Naturally, it can happen that for ...

I did some research a number of years ago about getting discrete 5.1 or 7.1 audio from either an onboard or dedicated sound card when using a digital connection such as SPDIF/Optical to a capable ...

There's still some value in the tech, although its days may be numbered.