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Digital audio uses specific socket or not?

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I'm having a lot of trouble hearing the audio track on certain movies through my 2.0 sound system. One of the suggestions that was made to me elsewhere was to use the digital audio output on the DVD player and the digital input on my Arcam FMJ-A23, taking the TV out of the audio signal path.

(At the moment, since the Arcam hasn't actually arrived yet, I'm running HDMI from the DVD player to the TV and two-channel analog RCA interconnects from the TV to an old Rotel preamp. I think either one piece of electronics thinks there are 5.1 channels of sound and is having to drop 3.1 of them on the floor, or else I've got one of the menu settings wrong and I'm stuck in one of those horrible 5.1 emulators using some sort of delay algorithm. There would seem to be about seven different places in the various menus to monkey with this, and nothing seems to work.)

Anyway, to kill some time before the Arcam gets here I started looking into this "digital audio" proposition, and I'm confused about something: there's an output on the back of the DVD player labeled "digital out" and it's got a tiny, kooky, square-looking socket -- something I've never looked into before. (There's also one just like it on the TV, so it's not a fluke.) But when I go to Audiogon or EBay, either one, and type "digital cable" into the search box, I get all of these hits for cables that are terminated either RCA or XLR.

Am I correct in assuming that the suggestion someone else made was to use the kooky square socket on the back of the DVD player and, if so, what do I call that sort of cable termination so that I am sure to get the right cable? Which brand of cable should I be looking into, and how much do they cost?

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