@Felthry@awoo.space Even though I have never actually used a toslink connection I still kind of want it to hang around for just that reason.
@LilFluff agreed. it's not anything special for its capabilities, but it's kind of a symbol of an era where manufacturers were trying to stick every fancy new idea into their technologies.
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@LilFluff not that it's a good optical standard. It uses LEDs instead of laser diodes, which limits the speed immensely--cat5e beats it in bandwidth, i believe--and it's made of thick plastic, which, while it does make it more flexible than most optical fiber cable, also limits its maximum length quite severely.
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@LilFluff I believe our PS2 has a toslink connector on the back of it, and i'm pretty sure our TV does too, so we could actually use it if we wanted, I suppose.
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@Felthry@awoo.space I seem to recall the Technology Connections Guy's summary was, "It has no real advantage over its non-optical competitors and design decisions that limit its optical abilities, but it's optical and therefor it's cool."
I think I had a portable CD player with it, which could have been nice during the short period when I was using minidisc only I think I'd misplaced it by then. ponders Hmm, I wonder if the minidisc player came with a cable, maybe I did have a toslink cable.