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Seriously are you missing optical?
by martinvol 6y ago
Seriously are you missing optical?
- geerlingguy 6y agoI can count on one hand the number of times I've had to use an optical drive in the past 5 years. I'm guessing most of us are in a similar situation. For those instances, I pull out an old external USB blu-ray player.
- corey_moncure 6y agoOptical audio I/O. Many people might not know this, but you could actually plug in an optical S/PDIF cable into your Macbook Pro, on both the "microphone" input and "headphones" output line, to get digital audio in and out.
- interestica 6y agoI had that on an 09 Pro/Unibody. It was kinda brilliant (ha). Imagine such dual type port on a phone...
- vel0city 6y agoThe top level commenter was not talking about an optical drive like CDs or DVDs, they were talking about having optical audio connectivity through a TOSLINK mini plug.
- geerlingguy 6y agoAh. I used to plug my old original Core 2 Duo MBP into a 5.1 system using a mini TOSlink cable, but since HDMI started doing surround audio I haven't had a need for optical audio connections. It was cool seeing a LED inside the audio jack, however.
- interestica 6y agoWhat's the alternative? Laser beams and fibre optics are still potentially better than conductive wire. I suspect we will see a resurgence.