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From: sgm@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Methley)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: TOSLINK digital audio standard
Message-ID: <1770023@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:12:23 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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pavelr@sco.COM (Pavel Rozalski) asks in <8210@scolex.sco.COM> :

> I am interested in the TOSLINK digital audio standard. I have access to
> a Sony tuner/amp with a digital input. Where can I find cables? How do
> I make something that can talk to this?

from Toshiba:
cable		TOCP172
transmitter	TOTX172
receiver	TORX172
other companies do these too, eg Mitsubishi, but I have no part numbers.

The standard is described in ref:
"Fibre optic link for digital audio interface", IEEE Trans Cons. Elect._34_(3)
August 1988.

Sony and Philips make decoding chips.

Cheers,
Steve.