And now, with just the addition of a highfalutin LED and some software, the Teensy can output digital audio over optical fiber. S/PDIF ... right into the optical cable. The end result?
A useful standard that hasn’t really bothered most of us is S/PDIF, standing for Sony/Phillips Digital Interface. It’s a useful way to pump digital audio around over copper cables or optic fiber.
there are four cable types supported by the S/PDIF specification. See S/PDIF. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.
That digital signal is known as SPDIF (Sony/Philips Digital ... in the addition of ARC/eARC is that the same cable can be used to send digital audio back to the same component from the TV.