Straight Wire is a no-nonsense cable manufacturer. Not too long ago the Florida-based manufacturer added to its selection of digital audio cables. The Southeast company's newest product is the SWTS ...

Velocity S-Video/TOSLINK combination cables from Impact Acoustics offer high quality digital sound and video for today's audio and home theater applications. Transporting audio and video signals via ...

Going to help a buddy connect a Fortissimo II optical out to his stereo reciever, which is a ways away from the computer. Did a bit of searching, and from what I can tell, 10 meters seems to be the ...

What just happened? Two hackers have successfully extended the range of Toslink optical audio cables, enabling data transmission over unprecedented distances. While the practical applications may be ...

Marketing hype aside, there’s nothing magic about cables: they transfer electricity and sometimes light from one place to another, and so long as their pins and insulation are reasonably well-designed ...

If you've ever came across that trapezoidal port on the back of your DVD player or TV and thought, what the heck is that, you're probably not alone. Though once a popular way to transmit digital sound ...

Simple question: What are the benefits of using an optical audio cable over standard RCA composite cables for audio OR HDMI? Background: My XBox 360 is one of the older ones with component hookups. I ...

I'm not particular about cables, so I mostly use cheap ones. That said, when I've bought Chinese cables with loose connectors ...

At the recent 38C3 conference in Germany, someone gave a talk about sending TOSLINK digital audio over fiber optic networks rather than the very low-end short distance fibre you’ll find behind your CD ...