Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 513 from 2003/2/25
From: France
Quote:
KennyR wrote:
Unfortunately TOSLINK is a very old standard now and has almost been abandoned by the world, so getting it to spit out anything can be a challenge, and anything but basic stereo no better than analogue a problem even for modern gaming PCs. Everyone's moved onto HDMI for digital sound.
Hu. Can't agree with that. Any serious audio gear have optical in/out. TOSLINK is just a mechanical port standard nowadays. Most devices spit S/PDIF digital stream over the fiber.
There is indeed a shift to HDMI in computer products probably related to cost saving (removing a port? less expensive to manufacture and also less cable mess for the user...).
There is even products that extract the audio signal from HDMI to optical SPDIF. Most TV have optical out too...
Even a cheap as 'f' (sub 30€ USB audio card) UCA222 from Behringer features a TOSLINK optical out port.
TOSLINK ain't dead at all! :)
