{"id":467,"date":"2012-06-22T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:56:57","slug":"you-dont-know-jack-about-optical-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t know jack about optical audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/gadgets\/audio-music\/optical-audio.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fiber optic cable\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/85\/Fiber_optic_illuminated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Hustvedt, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If the back of your entertainment system looks like a cross between mission control and a 1960s Manhattan switchboard, you could probably use a little help separating your composite from your component video. In this article, I\u2019ll explain the oxymoronic mystery that is optical audio, with stops along the way to explore the evolution of inputs, outputs, standards and jacks that led to it. I\u2019ll also tell you how this fiberoptic system stacks up against HDMI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/gadgets\/audio-music\/optical-audio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">What is Optical Audio?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the back of your entertainment system looks like a cross between mission control and a 1960s Manhattan switchboard, you could probably use a little help separating your composite from your component video. In this article, I\u2019ll explain the oxymoronic mystery that is optical audio, with stops along the way to explore the evolution of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You don\u2019t know jack about optical audio<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,12,54,94,4,31,20,74,3,13],"tags":[326,338,336,335,339,337,330,329,334,331,325,328,332,333,327],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-engineering","category-history","category-how-to","category-internet","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-coaxial","tag-component-video","tag-composite-video","tag-fiber-optics","tag-hdmi","tag-jacks","tag-ports","tag-rca","tag-standards","tag-stereo","tag-thelonious-monk","tag-triple-contact-plug","tag-trs-connector","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}