[recursive]

I love the concept, but for my case, I'd need more granular filters. In particular, I only buy TVs that have analog audio outputs so I can hook them up to any speakers. That's a minority of TVs these days, but there are still a few around. Finding the good ones would be useful to me.

[no_wizard]

I assume that converters have negative side effects?

[recursive]

I'm unaware of their existence. I'm guessing they're big and expensive. Or maybe hard to get?

[fshr]

What kind of outputs? Fiber to analog is about $15 and the size of two hockey pucks stacked.

[recursive]

Huh. Ok. I just didn't know that was a thing. Ok, I guess I don't need analog outputs then. Still nice to have though. Better zero pucks than two.

[pas]

Hifi geeks don't trust the DAC to something inside the TV, and ... they are not wrong. Plus you can reuse the DAC even if you change the screen.

[recursive]

I'm not an audiophile. I just want something better than what the screen does, and I don't want to buy a soundbar or get into HDMI. And sometimes use headphones.

But still, I'm pretty sure, one day I'm going to get one of these optical -> analog boxes.