Posted by DH on 10/30/06 22:02

Andrew wrote:
> need an audio cable for my amp/tv.
> can anyone tell me is a optical cable and a toslink cable the same thing?.
> they look the same on the images.
> tia
>
>

Toslink is optical, but only one form of optical.

IIRC its a small square plug with one corner chopped off.

The other common type resembles a mini jack plug.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/audio_toslink_cables.html#mini

DH

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