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S/PDIF

TOSLINK connector (JIS F05)

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)[1][2] is a type of digital audio interface used in consumer audio equipment to output audio over relatively short distances. The signal is transmitted over either a coaxial cable using RCA or BNC connectors, or a fiber-optic cable using TOSLINK connectors. S/PDIF interconnects components in home theaters and other digital high-fidelity systems.

S/PDIF is based on the AES3 interconnect standard.[3] S/PDIF can carry two channels of uncompressed PCM audio or compressed 5.1 surround sound (such as DTS audio codec or Dolby Digital codec); it cannot support lossless surround formats that require greater bandwidth.[4]

S/PDIF is a data link layer protocol as well as a set of physical layer specifications for carrying digital audio signals over either optical or electrical cable. The name stands for Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format but is also known as Sony/Philips Digital Interface. Sony and Philips were the primary designers of S/PDIF. S/PDIF is standardized in IEC 60958 as IEC 60958 type II (IEC 958 before 1998).[5]

  1. ^ "S/PDIF Information". Intel. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  2. ^ "S/PDIF". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  3. ^ "SoundSystem SixPack 5.1+ True 6 Channel + Digital In & out – Stuff Worth Knowing" (PDF). TerraTec. 5 July 2001. p. 43. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  4. ^ Mark Johnson; Charles Crawford; Chris Armbrust (2007). High-Definition DVD Handbook : Producing for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc: Producing for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. McGraw Hill Professional. pp. 4–10. ISBN 9780071485852. ...connections such as S/PDIF do not have the bandwidth necessary to deliver uncompressed surround sound...
  5. ^ "Sound card". kioskea.net. Kioskea Network. Retrieved 4 August 2010. The components of a sound card are: [...] An SPDIF digital output (Sony Philips Digital Interface, also known as S/PDIF or S-PDIF or IEC 958 or IEC 60958 since 1998). This is an output line that sends digitised audio data to a digital amplifier using a coaxial cable with RCA connectors at the ends.