[mythtv-users] optical vs coax (was My Ultimate Mythtv?)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 02:12 US/Pacific, Per Åge Sørvik wrote:

> Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>
>> I have to admit I started down this road based solely on the comments 
>> of an audiophile friend whom I trust (mostly), and he swears coax is 
>> better. To me, the difference between the two is indistinguishable. 
>> My friend is also the same person that used to do ogg encodings of 
>> all his music at something like 512, but stopped and switched to 
>> flac, because he was still concerned about loss...
>
> It's a typical audiophile argument, but usually not coming from people 
> with an electronics background. Thats why I have to disagree with it 
> ;). It's a bit funny really, because I was a little bit into the 
> audiophile thing for a while myself, but after some years of education 
> within electronics and computer technology, I found most of the claims 
> where opposing my education...

Heh. Every day is a new learning experience for me w/MythTV... :)

>>>>> and the fact that toslink probably is multimode fiber, not 
>>>>> singlemode.
>>>> Not sure.
>>> Well, I'm pretty sure, but I'm to lazy to check it out :)
>> I did a cursory search for info (5 second googler) and didn't find 
>> much of anything on the topic.
>
> Guess you'll have to trust me, then :). Singlemode is usually used for 
> long distance connections, like 50kms or so, without repeaters.

Oh, I know plenty about fiber optics when it comes to networking...  
Duplex multi-mode 62.5/125 with SC on one end and ST on the other to 
tie a LightPointe FlightSpectrum 155/2000 FSO link head into a Cisco 
Catalyst 2924M-XL switch (100Mbps through thin air spanning over a mile 
with almost zero latency is REALLY cool)... But I digress (and I'm 
heading WAAAY off-topic)...

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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