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Old 01-06-2011, 04:28 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Great68 View Post
The connection interface means nothing, 5.1 signals can be transmitted over Coax RCA cable as well. In the beginning TOSLINK (the name for the optical interface we use today) was only designed to stream stereo PCM from CD players.

You need to look at the speaker/amp specs and look for "Decodes Dolby Digital/DTS digital" which is pretty much all home theaters in a box systems these days.
yes that is true. I just said optical only because OP mentioned it was for his PS3. there is no coax connection on a ps3.
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