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No but a lot of people seem to think they removed it, they didn’t
by simonbarker87 5y ago
No but a lot of people seem to think they removed it, they didn’t
- masklinn 5y agoThey did remove the input jack with G3 (2012-2015), and S/PDIF (digital line out) with G4 (touchbar) though.
- schrijver 5y agoThere’s optical digital line out up until the 2015 Macbook Pro, sending light out of the headphone jack. You need to add a little plastic adapter compared to standard TOSLINK cables, which I presume were getting too big.
- masklinn 5y ago> There’s optical digital line out up until the 2015 Macbook Pro, sending light out of the headphone jack. Yes, that's what I wrote was dropped in G4.
- petercooper 5y agoIt's interesting how silently they dropped the optical line out, I never saw it mentioned. I needed it for something on my iMac Pro the other week and was boggled that it didn't support it. The argument I read about it was the DAC is so high quality now, digital out is simply not needed.
- kefabean 5y agoI’m still slightly bemused as to why they dropped optical out from the Apple TV too. It’s not like it’s supposed to be a media hub at the centre of your house or they run a music streaming service or anything!
- reubenmorais 5y agoI assume because modern HDMI supersedes it. Sucks if you have an old receiver/amp tho.
- onecommentman 5y agoOptical out was a real blessing back when electrical connections (iMacs to amps) were noticeably noisy. To go from optical back to electrical just seemed wrong from a tech evolution standpoint. Not hearing a lot of call to rip out multimode fiber in backbone networks and replace it with a shinier coax. But HDMI seems to be meeting the need, and there is always the aftermarket for fully annealed 99.999% oxygen-free HDMI cables to consider.
- bombcar 5y agoI specifically got a device to split audio out of the HDMI stream (technically it just copies it out) to RCA so I can pipe it back into the stereo in zone 2. Annoyingly complex but it works.
- relaxing 5y agoAll the home audio stuff supports audio over hdmi now. One less fragile cable to worry about, it’s great. For legacy equipment you can get a box that takes hdmi in and spits out spdif.
- astrange 5y agoSPDIF has less bandwidth than HDMI and doesn't support formats like lossless surround or Atmos.