PHJF:
No, digital does not equal optical.
You could have said TOSLINK, or you could have said Optical.

For instance, digital video means DVI, or HDMI. No optical there, but its still digital. I'm not aware of an common optical format for video. Similarly, the HDMI 1.3 spec includes a DIGITAL audio option in the HDMI cable, again, its NOT optical.
It shouldn't matter in a sound system wheather you are using optical digital, or wired digital. Digital is digital. Theoretically, ideally, there should be no differance between them.
I personally use optical, just in case there might exist a differance, and because I've never had an optical system before now.
I'm fairly certain there are far more digital wired audio systems in existance than digital optical systems. So I don't have a problem beliving that most people, when they say digital, do not nessasarily mean optical digital.

I even wrote my reply in such a way that if you HAD meant optical (rather than the digital you said), I covered that as well, and agreed with you on the point of optical sound.

Also, I wrote my reply so that if you had meant DD LIVE, I covered that as well.

Note that I agree with you that creative sux, I'm just disagreeing with your semantics I'm that kinda person

This comment was edited on Mar 25, 18:10.