[DailyRingtone]

Do you mean an optical S/PDIF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDIF , where you presumably got that image from?) connection?

You would need ... an optical s/pdif cable. I don't think you can 'convert' between optical and anything else, but you may be confused and it may well be the same port (as I've never heard of a different type of optical connection than S/PDIF).

[gfkasjhfg]

Ohhhhhh. You probably need this:
http://www.amazon.com/TOSLINK-TO-OPT.../dp/B0002MQGRM

or something like that.

[Thomas12400]

Thanks.

[Bondjrno]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Optical sound is wonderful, by the way The sound from my current setup is 10x better than my previous arrangement... admittedly having 5.1 instead of 2.0 is probably part of the difference But still... Optical is obsolete...HDMI 1.3a for the win.

Lossy sound.

[GoveMoony]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Optical is lossy? Didn't know that. It depends on the format.

It can do 2-channel PCM lossless (but 16-bit only).

All 5.1 (Dolby Digital, DTS) are lossy.

Optical lacks the bandwidth to have 5.1 lossless.

[Mimsykzr]

That's what I have now, except w/o bluray (just an upconverting DVD player).

[Rememavotscam]

Originally posted by Sir Og


Do you output HDMI with multichannel lossless audio from your PC?

I haven't checked recently but 6 months ago there were very few solutions to output 5.1 or 7.1 lossless from a PC and they were too expensive. No, only from my PS3 right now (Bluray and streamed audio/video from the PC).

I'm not sure there's much of a point in lossless audio using PC speakers, unless you have a HTPC.