Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
I couldn't find them in Serramonte Target either. I will check the Saratoga Target this weekend. Chris - Original Message - From: "Dan Frakes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MDList" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 9:09 PM Subject: Re: MD: cheaper optical cables A few weeks ago someone mentioned that they saw convertible TosLink/Miniplug digital cables at Target. I offered to pick a few up the next time I went to Target and a couple people responded that they would like one. The bad news is that I went to the "super" Target in San Francisco today and the cables were nowhere to be seen. Sorry to disappoint. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
"Chris Eddington" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find them in Serramonte Target either. I will check the Saratoga Target this weekend. Chris: That's actually the one I was at -- but I figured since this is an international list no one would know what I was talking about if I said "Serramonte" ;-) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
A few weeks ago someone mentioned that they saw convertible TosLink/Miniplug digital cables at Target. I offered to pick a few up the next time I went to Target and a couple people responded that they would like one. The bad news is that I went to the "super" Target in San Francisco today and the cables were nowhere to be seen. Sorry to disappoint. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
Hi Dan. I got a set at Sears for $13.99. I had to do some looking. I found a whole bunch of audio cables that were Recoton, but no dice. I was about to give up when I saw an other display (the Sears where I live is such a mess that if it was broken into no one could even tell). Then there they were. So I suggest that anyone interested check out Sears. I can't believe the disorder of most of the stores in my area. What do they think, if the store looks like sh!t then it must have low prices? I visited a Target 2 weeks ago. It's about an hour from me. I couldn't believe how clean it was. Wide isles. Everything in it's place. The prices varied. Some were very good; others equal to Wal*Mart and some things were high. They had I-Jam portable MP3 players, but no I-Jam portable CD players. I thought that was odd. Except or the internet I have never seen I-Jam for "real". Larry Dan Frakes wrote: A few weeks ago someone mentioned that they saw convertible TosLink/Miniplug digital cables at Target. I offered to pick a few up the next time I went to Target and a couple people responded that they would like one. The bad news is that I went to the "super" Target in San Francisco today and the cables were nowhere to be seen. Sorry to disappoint. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: cheaper optical cables
Can these adapters be used to connect the non-optical digital out from sound-cards like sound blaster live to the digital in on a portable? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David W. Tamkin Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 3:13 PM To: Eric Woudenberg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: cheaper optical cables Rick wrote, | Thanks for the note. This is the first I've heard of TOSLink optical | cables with miniplug adapters. I'm forwarding your note to the MD | mailing list, I think others will find it interesting. Best Buy has carried a Recoton model -- actually, several, as I think they're available in various lengths -- for some time. It's a TOSlink-to-TOSlink cable with two TOSlink-to-miniplug adaptors, so that it can be used for any optical connection. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: cheaper optical cables
You must convert the Coax digital signal to optical first. Nathan White [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yaniv S. Eyny Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MD: cheaper optical cables Can these adapters be used to connect the non-optical digital out from sound-cards like sound blaster live to the digital in on a portable? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David W. Tamkin Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 3:13 PM To: Eric Woudenberg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: cheaper optical cables Rick wrote, | Thanks for the note. This is the first I've heard of TOSLink optical | cables with miniplug adapters. I'm forwarding your note to the MD | mailing list, I think others will find it interesting. Best Buy has carried a Recoton model -- actually, several, as I think they're available in various lengths -- for some time. It's a TOSlink-to-TOSlink cable with two TOSlink-to-miniplug adaptors, so that it can be used for any optical connection. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
Yaniv Eyny asked, | Can these adapters be used to connect the non-optical digital out from | sound-cards like sound blaster live to the digital in on a portable? No. All they are is dark plastic pieces with the hole at one end shaped like a TOSlink jack and the other end shaped like an optical miniplug so that, if you put a TOSlink cable into the TOSlink end of the adaptor and the miniplug end into an optical minijack, it will make light-tight connections on both ends. All it adapts is the shape of the optical connector. If your soundcard's output is coaxial digital, then Nathan summed it up: you'd need something else to convert the coaxial signal to an optical one. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
I bought some Recoton TOSlink cables at Best Buy a few months ago. They are very flexable and work great. The only thing that might be a problem is that the TOSlink connectors are rather large; they just barely fit the side-by-side jacks on the DIO2448... - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
Rick wrote, | Thanks for the note. This is the first I've heard of TOSLink optical | cables with miniplug adapters. I'm forwarding your note to the MD | mailing list, I think others will find it interesting. Best Buy has carried a Recoton model -- actually, several, as I think they're available in various lengths -- for some time. It's a TOSlink-to-TOSlink cable with two TOSlink-to-miniplug adaptors, so that it can be used for any optical connection. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
Hi James, Thanks for the note. This is the first I've heard of TOSLink optical cables with miniplug adapters. I'm forwarding your note to the MD mailing list, I think others will find it interesting. Rick "James G. Owen" writes: I found at Target (big mall retailer) "Recoton" brand "dvd" "Digital Optical 6 ft. Stereo Audio Cable" for a mere $15 (!!) or so. On the back of the card it says "DVD901". It did take me half an hour of looking at every single thing in their video/audio section. But not only are these cables considerably cheaper than the $40 offerings elsewhere, they are "universal" in that they come with "miniplug" adapters for both ends. That is, out of the bubble-pack they have the square post style optical connectors which I gather you can plug into some CD players; however there are supplied two little plastic gadgets which you can snap over the square posts to convert them into the Sony-style 3.5 mm stereo/optical miniplug connectors. One of these has worked here at least twice for digital copying minidisk to minidisk from a Sony MZ-1 to a Sharp MD-MT15 and I look forward to using it to connect to my VS840ex, which has a square post style output. Much thanx for minidisc.org; the info has been priceless. You're welcome! - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: cheaper optical cables
"James G. Owen" writes: I found at Target (big mall retailer) "Recoton" brand "dvd" "Digital Optical 6 ft. Stereo Audio Cable" for a mere $15 (!!) or so. On the back of the card it says "DVD901". they are "universal" in that they come with "miniplug" adapters for both ends. That is, out of the bubble-pack they have the square post style optical connectors which I gather you can plug into some CD players; however there are supplied two little plastic gadgets which you can snap over the square posts to convert them into the Sony-style 3.5 mm stereo/optical miniplug connectors. This is the first time that I have ever heard of standard Toslink to Toslink cables with mini plug adapters. This is a great and brilliant idea as long as it works. This would totally eliminate the need for 3 different cables for different situations. Currently if you own a portable CD player with a dig. optical out, it will be a mini plug. So will a portable MD recorder. So for that you need a mini to mini cable. Then if you own a stereo system (almost all of Aiwa's in expensive mini systems-not mini disc-come with a digital out) or DVD player with an optical dig out it will be TOSlink. If you have a deck it will also be TOSlink. If you have a deck you need a TOSlink to TOSlink cable. Finally if you have a DVD player or something like the Aiwa and a portable recorder you will need a mono on one end and a TOSlink on the other. So you have to buy 3 different cables. Unless you are very careful about were you keep things, chances are you will never be able to find the right cable when you need it. Too bad there are on Targets near me. That's a goo deal. If CC carries them, they will probably cost $40. I don't CC would even want to carry them because it might interfere with the sale of the $100 monster cables. Regards, Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too bad there are on Targets near me. That's a goo deal. If CC carries them, they will probably cost $40. I don't CC would even want to carry them because it might interfere with the sale of the $100 monster cables. Next time I go to Target, I'll check up on these. Maybe I'll pick up a few and if people want them I can send them at the purchase price. I know how frustrating it is to look everywhere for a cable and never find one for less than $40. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
