[Jelle Schrijver]

Originally Posted by cheemo

Hopefully Apple will include an optical out on the ipod one of these days. Sheesh, I'm still waiting for the new gen nano with atleast 16GB or even 32GB. I'm not so keen on the iTouch.

few remarks;

1) iMac's and probably the others have also optical inputs. (edit: oops already mentioned)
2) looking at my friends iphone headphone socket, i noticed that at does not look like a normal headphone socket. At the end it seems to be a led, so i am guessing that there is already a optical out on the iPhone.... Also, looking at a thread of the Wadia ipod dock, it seems that with the latest line of iPod, there is a spdif/I2S signal present in the dockout, if you have the verification chip to unlock it, that is.

About the optical out from a headphonejack, My sony discman has a lineout-optical out combo. I bought once a optical cable that can change from jack to a toslink connector and back by swivelling the connector.