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shikamaru317 said:
WebMasterFlex said:
What's the point of optical ports ?

Some people have home theater systems that use optical audio. Without an optical audio port, those people can't use PS4 Slim. I'm one of those people, I have an optical audio home theater system, the computer monitor I hook my consoles up to has no speakers of it's own that can pull audio over HDMI, so I would only be able to use headsets for audio with PS4 Slim.

There are tons of splitters available like this one https://www.amazon.com/Tendak-Optical-Extractor-Converter-Splitter/dp/B00Y0920B4
They also have them to split one hdmi output into 2. That might be useful for my hdmi 1.4 amp, one for audi, one for video. However I have no clue if that will work with hdcp 2.2 Probably not.

I wish they had kept audio seperate and upgraded toslink instead to handle all the new sound formats. Now I need to upgrade my amplifier to be able to pass through a video signal. Retarded.