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How does optical audio outlet work?

Asked by Sandydog (1265points) May 17th, 2010 from iPhone

My satellite receiver has a socket for optical audio, and Im not sure how this works?
Ive always used auxiliary outputs, so how does optical differ? Is it better quality?
Its called SPDIF whatever that stands for?
Thanks for any info

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