{"video_id":"_mHXxtXKJoo","title":"Why IS This COOL Cable Dying? - TOSLINK Optical Audio","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":349,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":6.48,"text":"of all the technologies we have right now that suggest we really are living in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.08,"end_s":11.519,"text":"the future perhaps nothing sounds more futuristic than the fact that we can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.4,"end_s":13.84,"text":"transmit data with laser light indeed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.519,"end_s":18.16,"text":"many of the highest capacity cables that form the backbone of the internet use","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.0,"end_s":21.92,"text":"fiber optics and fiber to the home connections that deliver very high","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.84,"end_s":26.48,"text":"speeds have become more popular in recent years but did you know 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perhaps nothing sounds more futuristic than the fact that we can transmit data with laser light indeed many of the highest capacity cables that form the backbone of the internet use fiber optics and fiber to the home connections that deliver very high speeds have become more popular in recent years but did you know that one optical technology that used to be pretty commonplace in home audio is now getting replaced by good old-fashioned copper i'm not talking about cds which you can learn more about up here i'm actually referring to the toshiba link or toslink connector if you're not sure what that is there's actually a good chance you have one on the back of your desktop pc it's a square-ish looking connector that's lit up with red light they were also extremely common not so long ago when dvd players ruled the world you see although toslink was originally developed in the 1980s to connect cd players to other audio equipment it made its way into dvd players and computers as an easy way to deliver digital audio over just one cable so if you had a 5.1 surround setup for example you could use a single toslink cable to send a digital signal to a receiver that would then decode it rather than one rca cable for every channel which would suck and it did and another cool thing about toslink was that because it used light it wouldn't suffer from interference from other nearby electronics so what we had was a convenient clean futuristic pathway for high resolution audio so why is it going away well one reason is that it's actually not very good at carrying signals over any kind of significant distance which is counterintuitive because those fiber optic cables on the ocean floor use light to transmit data and they work for huge amounts of information being sent thousands of miles away so what gives the answer is in how the cables are physically constructed unlike higher spec high bandwidth fiber optic cables optical toslink cables are often built with how you say cheap plastic as a transmission medium inside contributing to the light attenuating or losing its strength as it travels down the pipe this means that not only do toslink cables have a maximum length of around 10 meters or 33 feet but also that they're bandwidth limited compared to other solutions the latest version of toslink has data rates up to 125 megabits per second which is certainly fast enough for high-res audio and even theoretically for high def video at the same time but the release of HDMI in the early 2000s created a very sticky situation for toslink not only did HDMI offer a relatively easy one cable solution for both audio and video even the very earliest versions of HDMI were a lot faster than toslink meaning they were not only good for consumer applications but also professional settings where users needed to work with uncompressed video on audio despite the fact that HDMI just uses copper cables without any fancy optical data transfer their construction meant that they could carry faster signals over longer distances and tossling cables also had a bad habit of breaking if you bent them too much due to their more rigid cores something that HDMI cables could withstand a lot more easily so as time went on the industry concentrated on expanding the HDMI spec to support more and more audio standards such as lossless dts master audio dolby true hd and the newer dtsx and dolby atmos which you can learn a lot more about up here toslink on the other hand was more or less left to languish although it certainly would have been possible to update the spec and make it compatible with newer fancier formats no one ever really got around to it because HDMI largely made it irrelevant but that doesn't mean that toslink is totally useless today it still works well as a simple hookup for compressed digital audio like bog standard dolby digital or dts 5.1 and you'll still find it on many sound bars out there as an easy way to connect to a display even if there's no HDMI out available even some small devices use mini toslink which can be combined with a standard 3.5 millimeter jack in order to save space and if you're using a vintage audio receiver maybe that doesn't have HDMI so you got to get to your tv somehow so it's not quite dead yet okay just don't tell those corners from monty python in the holy grail a reference from before you were born probably speaking of death today's video is brought to you by vikings war of clans a strategy rpg game that is free to play and allows you to team up with your friends to build and battle together you can do pvp or pve follow your character progression or play the economy and expand your city all while enjoying high quality visuals and a custom soundtrack we play the [ __ ] out of it here i got 120 hours sunk in in two days we played here at Linus media group and i can tell you that a good choice would be to plan every battle strategically but we'd like to go in with giant armies no coordination and just see how the battle plays out because why not we're dumb download it for free now through the link below and get a bonus of 200 gold coins and a protective shield which is great for new players so you have time to catch up without worrying about being attacked the devs have also prepared a surprise for you so do the test and find out what kind of viking you are and don't forget to join our vikings clan under the name techwiki yes we have a clan and yes it's called techwiki so thanks for watching guys if you like this video give us a thumbs up give us a subscribe and be sure to hit us up in the comments section with your suggestion for topics that we should cover in the future"}