What are the TOSLINK cables

[G.randhir]

While searching for Digital Audio cables i found this Digital Audio Cable post here on this forum. Well, it has nice info but i confused with optical audio cable and Toslink. I can understand what is Optical cable but what is TOSLINK ? Please help.

[deoWo]

Toslink and Optical Cable are same and they are standardized optical fiber connection system.The TOSLINK standard was first developed by Toshiba to provide connections in its CS players.It was soon adopted by manufacturers of most CD players. The early systems used TOSLINK raw PCM data from the CD player, the standard S / PDIF is now become universal for audio streams . It transmits digital quality sound from Set-Top-Box, DVD Player, to HDTV.The important feature of fiber optic cables is that they sound signals into light pulses in contrast to convert electrical signals. TOSLINK cables usually their signals as red LED lights on.

[T.J.]

Toslink cables are used to connect your high quality audio and video components using their digital optical ouput. These cables are usually restricted to being 5m long.The maximum possible length for a TOSLINK cable without a signal booster found is to be around 10m, depending on its application, the TOSLINK cables 1mm thick plastic fiber optic cables use low or the material of excellent quality, the multi - sea fiber optic cables use high quality. If you have a light on one side of a roll of cable TOSLINK shines, you can on the other side. This is because the fiber optic cables of light guiding material compiled and hence transmit the light from one end to another.It can often be found on DVD players and some game consoles to connect the digital audio stream to Dolby Digital/DTS decoders.

[Killen]

Toslink optical cables are most often seen in the professional music/audio industry. If you need, you can try XtremeHD Toslink digital optical audio cable that connects multi-channel audio from sources such as Apple TV, DVD players, satellite receivers, cable boxes and digital video recorders to your A/V receiver or television.