Digital optical cable????????

Malissa Porth: "I have a surround system but it plugs in with regular jacks."(sigh)You spent all of about $300? It has a skinny receiver/DVD player combo unit? (one to two posts per day around here about these.)The low price is because these crappy units are not 'systems', but glorified DVD players with speakers attached. They do not have the forest of spare connections a real AV Receiver gives you so you can hook up TV, PS3, BluRay, Cable, Sat box's to give you 5.1 surround sound.You MIGHT have left/right analog outputs on your cable box or Sat receiver (the source of your HD content). You can just hook up left/right RCA plugs to your 'system' to get stereo.But to get real HD sound / home theater you need a real AV Receiver....Show more

Rickey Vrieze: If your surround system has a digital input (s/pdif), but it is coax, you can by an optical to coax s/pdif converter.If it has NO digital input, it is not a true surround system worth spending any more money with c! onverters and there is nothing you can do except get a new AV receiver with a digital input.