It s like holding a flashlight up to a tube.
Optical cable red light both ends.
Go into the sound or speakers menu of the tv and select external speakers or audio system.
Anyways your cable is fine.
Also known generically as optical audio its most common use is in consumer audio equipment via a digital optical socket where it carries a digital audio stream from components such as cd and dvd players dat recorders computers and modern video game consoles to an av receiver that can decode two channels of.
Toslink cables support several types of media formats.
It uses fiber optic through light pulses not electricity to transmit digital audio signals.
Will the light still be there if you take away the flashlight.
However the receiver s optical in port has no light.
Toslink from toshiba link is a standardized optical fiber connector system.
Fiber optical cable eliminates electromagnetic interference emi and radio frequency interference rfi supports uncompressed pcm audio or compressed 5 1 and 7 1 surround sound including dolby digital plus and dts hd see more product details.
The optical cable works properly if you see a red light on both ends.
The red light is the light coming from whatever you have the optical cable plugged into.
360 degree grip treads on the fiber optic audio cable help easy plugging and unplugging.
Unlike other cabling standards the optical audio system uses fiber optic cables and laser light to transmit digital audio signals between devices.
An optical audio cable should have a red light at each of the connectors when it s in place and working correctly.
If you don t see the light at either of the ends the cable isn t connected properly is broken or you might just have a faulty cable.
Optical out definitely has a light i can t remember if optical in is supposed to.
Then i noticed it says turn on the power of the connected device i checked the optical cable and there is red light from it.
The optical digital cable is made either of plastic or glass.
I checked the ps4 audio settings and it s set to output to digital out optical.