bobafred

My Kenwood VR-6060 home theater receiver has been a champ for the nearly 4.5 years that I’ve owned it. Since the Kenwood website sucks, I’m not linking to it.

Anyway, the other day we went to watch a DVD and there was no sound. After some cable checking I found that the coaxial digital input that I had the DVD player connected to went bad. The receiver also has Toslink (optical) digital inputs, but the DVD player does not support this. I was sad.

I quickly came up with three solutions.

1. Buy a new receiver (expensive).
2. Buy a new DVD player that has Toslink output (less expensive, but dumb because the DVD player works fine).
3. Check to see if there is such a thing as a coaxial to Toslink converter contraption and then find it for cheap on the Internet and then buy it (magical).

Thankfully, #3 is a reality. I received it yesterday in the mail and hooked it up and all is well again. Living without a DVD player was difficult.