The Monoprice S/PDIF Digital Optical Audio Cable is an excellent budget-friendly option. The 6-foot length is suitable for most people's needs, and it features full-size TOSLINK connectors on both ...

When hooking up an audio system or sound bar, you generally have to choose an HDMI or optical digital audio connection. Find out which one is better and why.

Thanks to the optical cable and its unique connector — known as a TosLink (a shortening of Toshiba Link) connector — we could send a digital audio signal between two components for the first time.

This once cool cable is dying a very slow death. Here's how it happened. Tech of the past . The official term for optical audio cable is "Toslink," short for Toshiba Link.Developed in the early ...

An optical digital connection uses the medium of light to transmit data through a cable’s optical fibres (which can be made from plastic, glass or silica). An optical cable doesn’t allow noise to pass ...

Starting in 2006, Apple incorporated support for S/PDIF, an optical digital connection standard that uses a fiber-optic cable with a Toslink connector or through Mini Toslink, which is compatible ...

Right now, the system can only output DTS Digital Surround, or uncompressed stereo, 5.1 or 7.1 audio, over HDMI; if you’re using an optical cable, the console currently supports uncompressed ...

In our experience, we generally find coaxial connections sound better than optical ones. Despite coaxial cables carrying ground-level noise (something optical cables do not), they have greater ...