I appreciate toslink because it's an entire industry standard created purely because optical fiber is cool
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it seriously has no advantage over just using regular old wire and indeed the signal sent over toslink out of a device that supports it is *exactly* the same as that sent over that orange RCA jack labelled "digital out" that's next to it

but optical fibre is Cool™

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