The best of those was this site, which when translated says it's an audio DSP card that has a fiber optic digital audio I/O, similar I would guess to the one used on the NuMedia Nubus DSP card. What I'm wondering mostly is what applications it might work with. The Numedia card works with DigiTrax and Deck II, so maybe this card will too, but who knows.

Since it's a local seller and the bid is low, I'll probably grab it just to find out. The only audio equipment I have that has a fiber-optic audio out is my Aiwa 5-disk CD-changer, but at least it would be fun to play with.

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SONY / DTL-H700
„ÉÅ„Éß„ÉÉ„Éî„É™ unusual card.
It is the sound source card for game music production of
the „Éó„ɨ„Ç*„ÉÜ.
Originally because for business of the game software
company, the person who knows you know.
How, there is an optical fiber terminal,
From there to drop the data into DAT something, it is
possible
Very, the オマヌケ the card.

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Did you find this one? Looks to be an I/O card, not a coprocessor card, but very cool nonetheless . . . NAB IT!

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http://www.cn-opticfiber.com/english/cp-5.htm

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Optical fiber terminal box is the interface of optical communication between outdoor and indoor . . .

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Yo! Marchie! Is "Optical Fiber Terminal" a networking standard for CATV or something along those lines? Could this thing just be a NIC of some kind for doing media work? Very interesting!

Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 04 Oct 2002 18:05:44

one of the most basic/common cable types in Optics is 24 strand... ie 12 end points, since you need 2 strands per device (Transmit and REceive)

That NuBus card in the Auction is a bit of a mystery to me... It looks to me to have ONE Fiber interface, NOT two, which would suggest that it's either input only, or output only...

It's NOT a NIC with only one stand of fiber.

I'm not all that familiar with Optics in Audio, or even networking for that matter... Most of myt experiance involves someone useing a flashlight at one end as I figure out which strands need to be plugged in... nearly burned out my retena! But in all Nics, you'll always have a Xmit and RCV.

The one other thing I can think of, is that the card will send OR receive, blindly... that would seem absurd to me, but stranger things are known.

Anyway, the auction ended and I forgot to bid, but since no one else did either, I'm going to email the seller to see if he'll let me have it or at least put it back up for bid seperately.

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I'm guessing that it's either input only, and used to transfer digital audio from a DAT, CD player or other digital audio device with a fiber optic output to a specific program that can translate it, like Deck II or DigiTrax. Or, yes, it could be an output...to dump pure digital audio to a DAT. But, I'm leaning toward the former theory.

Anyway, the auction ended and I forgot to bid, but since no one else did either, I'm going to email the seller to see if he'll let me have it or at least put it back up for bid seperately.

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jt ™.
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Good luck, 'mo! btw: the txt on the .jp site leans toward it being an output to DAT if I'm reading the gobbledegook correctly.

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