Expensive fiber-optic HDMI cable maintains its full bandwidth over much longer distances.

Already in its second generation, the Thunderbolt I/O protocol has been around for three years, but only recently did manufacturers begin production of optical cables to deliver the tentpole feature ...

It was once the most high-tech and futuristic feature you could find: Transmit sound -- with light! Lasers! A cable not of copper, but glass! Except, it was almost never glass, and was usually ...

Corning's USB 3.Optical cable replaces copper with fiber optic filament for faster sustained data transfer over much longer distances than standard USB 3.0 cables, but that speed comes with a few ...

Q What is the purpose of the optical digital audio out port on my TV? Can that be used instead of my HDMI port for sound from my receiver? Is HDMI as good or better than optical digital? BRIAN JOHNSON ...

The product is an active optical cable (AOC) for HDMI. Instead of relying solely on copper, it carries most of its signal over fiber-optic strands. Inside ...

Here is the situation. I have some Gigabyte motherboard in my HTPC with integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics chip in it. It supports HDMI output for audio and video and also have a optical output as ...

I/m playing my XBox360 on a LG 32LF11. As far as I can see, the only audio out it has is an optical output. I need to be able to plug in my headphones so that my gaming doesn't wake up mu ...