Optical Out

I set up my power mac g5 with an optical out cable to a surround sound receiver but no noise at all is coming out. The receiver is set up right, I changed the settings to optical out and nothing is happening. Anything this could be? Thanks

Hi,
Actually, they do make optical cables like that.
Many of the old mini-disk players from the mid-to-late 90's used them for recording. For those who may not know or remember (of have purposefully forgotten) mini-disk was supposed to be the next big thing in a small portable "walkman-style" cd player/recorder. This was obviously before MP3 players took over and became so huge.
They used this mini-jack digital cable that had an optical mini-jack connector on one end and a regular optical connector on the other. With this cable you could record a digital signal from a standard CD player to the mini-disk player.
You should be able to find the cable at any Circuit City or Best Buy-type store.
Best regards.
RJ
20-inch iMac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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