Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70937/ 2008-10-10T20:24:22-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70937/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-03-06T22:41:42-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70937/?l=1#530895 Thats too expensive. I was just wondering if it was possible.<br /> <br /> And I didn't know there was a difference between the yellow cable and the red and white cables... oops.<br /> <br /> Thanks you. text/html 2008-03-06T21:46:43-05:00 john albrich http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70937/?l=1#530891 Your coaxial output is digital, and the Red/White connectors typically mean analog Left and Right channel stereo inputs or outputs.<br /> <br /> You will have to locate a digital to analog converter to input from the coax output to analog stereo input. Such a converter may already exist in some other piece of audio equipment you own such as a Home Theatre amplifier.<br /> <br /> The problem you may run into, is there is no telling exactly what information is being transferred over the digital link. It could be simplle 2-channel stereo, or it could be Dolby, etc. which requires more processing to convert into 2-channel audio.<br /> <br /> Here's an example US$80 converter:<br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.svideo.com/digitalanalog.html" target="_blank">http://www.svideo.com/digitalanalog.html</a><br /> <br /> You might search on [spdif to analog stereo converter] on google and be able to find some more adapters.<br /> <br /> It almost looks like it would be better to buy an inexpensive (sub-$100) Home Theatre system and make your own &quot;converter&quot;. It would give you more flexibility and be able to decode Dolby, etc.<br /> <br /> <br /> edit to add--<br /> Here's the Wikipedia link on S/PDIF which may help explain the content vs. protocol issue better.<br /> In addition, note that S/PDIF cable impedance is 75ohm. That is NOT the impedance of normal audio cable, and if a long cable-run is required the wrong impedance could cause problems. 75ohms is the impedance of a standard cable-tv cable, or video cable (usually the Yellow connector on a 3-&quot;wire&quot; audio/video cable). However, some manufacturers use the same wrong-impedance audio cable to make their Yellow &quot;video&quot; cable on the cheaper 3-&quot;wire&quot; A/V cables. text/html 2008-03-06T19:23:32-05:00 Nathan Daniels http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70937/?l=1#0 My tv has an brownish RCA plug labeled coaxial which I am fairly certain is a S/PDIF output. The only problem is my stereo only has two read/white input plugs (what are they called?) I have looked all over but I cannot find a way to convert the S/PDIF signal into the red/white signals. Is it possible?