The optical cable will be fibre, and hence more expensive. If its just a matter of convenience, then hook tbe linux box onto a regular line-in. It'll be just as good, given that the sound card is in an RF rich case anyway...
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:19 a.m. To: CLUG Subject: OT Digital audio cables I want to connect my linux [1] media box to my amplifier via the coax digital audio out, and a dvd player via the optical digital audio out (the amp has two digital audio inputs, one coax the other optical). The cables seem rather expensive. digital coax 0.9 m, DSE item C1394 $29.00 digital optical 0.9m DSE item C1392 $50.00 Anyone know of any more acceptably priced alternatives? (I have searched a number of local electronics websites, but maybe my search techniques are all wrong) [1] see not really OT -- Nick Rout
