Monoprice 102946 3X1 Optical Audio TosLink Bi-Directional Manual Switch

so I made a video about a year ago on reason why you should use the HDMI a RC port versus the optical when you're hooking up your soundbar to your TV now I've gotten a lot of views on that video and I want to thank everybody for watching it and I also got a lot of comments so I want to thank you also for commenting but in some of those comments everybody has their own opinion and I welcome those opinion but I just want to clarify some things on the reason why I told you to use the HDMI arsc port versus the optical okay so let's break down the reason why I told you to go with the HDMI AR Severson your optical cable if it's available on your soundbar now first off both the HDMI AARC and optical transmit digital signal the optical cable was the best way to transmit audio back in the day when you had to choose from the regular RCA versus the optical but then when the HDMI cable came on the