Where can I get a male rca s/pdif to standard male rca cord?

Question

I have an s/pdif female audio out on my tv. I need a cable to plug into that and run out to a standard 2 prong (Red/white) male rca so i can plug that into my surround sound system. Little help, please? I can't find it anywhere

Answer 1

Try bundles.com

They have everything.

Answer 2

Radio Shack or you can try Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry's Electronics. All are nation wide.

Answer 3

As stated by others you can't connect SPDIF to RCA analog without going through a digital to analog converter.  Devices do exist (See link below for one example) but are not inexpensive. Furthermore you would lose surround sound.

But you can buy an adapter to go from digital coax to digital optical (Still not cheap, but reasonable)

Here's a UK supplier

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcabl...

And a US one

http://www.smarthome.com/77709.html

The input will accept a single digital coax line (essentially any 75 ohm coaxial cable with RCA tips), and the output will accept a Toslink optical cable (with the male plug that fits the square black jack on your receiver).

The result will be surround sound.

Answer 4

Radio Shack

Answer 5

you can't connect s/pdif to stereo rca (red/white)

you would have to buy an expensive digital to analog converter

your surround sound system should have an s/pdif input

maybe you just aren't explaining your question well (add some more details)

Answer 6

Hate to say it, but everyone's answers are WRONG.  Your TV has what's called a Digital Coax out, otherwise known as a SPDIF output.  This would hook up to your AV receiver as a Digital input.  

Digital Coax is alot different than stereo RCA cables, although they share the same connection type.  Digital coax is capable of Dolby Digital/DTS, so it sounds like your TV has a built-in HDTV tuner for HD channels.  You can pickup on certain stations 5.1 surround sound and send it to your speakers, provided you have a Dolby Digital system :)  

You can go to any AV Store, and ask for a "Digital Coaxial" cable.  You can get by for now with one RCA cable (You can take one of your stereo red or white cable ends) but Digital Coax uses much higher bandwidth so it is affected by cheapie cables.

Try to find the same equivalent on your AV reciever, these Digital Coax plugs are usually an RCA plug with orange or purple inside.  Once doing so you'll get alot better sound results!