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Optical portPosted by Nick Baer
The telecommunications industry has known for decades that using glass fiber optical cable to transmit data is more efficient than using wire, when large quanities of data are needed to be moved from one point to another simultaneously.
The Optical port is not passing physical sound or picture, it is passing 1s and 0s of data. Light can be broken down into more channels than electricitical radio frequancy waves can, so you can get more types and kind of data down a fiber each millisecond than a wire, with less interference between the channels, and less distortion over the length of the cable. My question has to do with what to do with my $15 cable? What can I plug it in to, to have a good time? Part of the issue with 5.1 and now 7.1 sound is whether Tiger can pass 5, 6, 7, or more seperate tracks of audio data simultaneously on the USB bus to an external sound card device, or if I have to get my hands bloody and implant an internal card.... Or if I could use an external Optical sound device. Independent photographer, film maker and Producer. In the wonderful UK.
>My question has to do with what to do with my $15 cable? What can I plug it in to, to have a good time?<
Unless you have some sort of amplifier device with an optical audio input port then you are S.O.L. Although you can plug your $15 cable into the G5 output port and look at the pretty little red light it emits. Have a good time with it!
You know, ever since that day in March, 1985 when I bought my first Mac (and went on the publish the first newspaper done on Mac desktop publishing in Minneapolis/St. Paul), I've always felt I've been a bit ahead of the curve.
Today, I'm $15 ahead of the curve. Independent photographer, film maker and Producer. In the wonderful UK.
I think you have a $15 party necklace like no other-- provided you get a laser light pump attached. That will probably cost 15K.
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