Are you sure you can't use a standard digital optical? I have a Panasonic plasma of about the same age and it has one. It's almost unthinkable that it wouldn't. The connector is D-shaped. Have you got it correctly aligned? BTW, never look at a Toslink cable from end on when it's plugged in.

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Have you taken off the little plastic cap?

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Thanks John B!



It isn't a standard digital optical (Panasonic switched a year or so later and went with a standard digital optical though). And yes, I took off the little plastic cap, thanks though, I could totally see myself derping and not doing that!



Update: I figured it out! It requires an adapter and Panasonic included it in the original box (thankfully, I save everything so I still have the original box, manuals, cables, etc... all in their original packaging too). Thanks to Crutchfield for a list of what came with the VT30, otherwise, I would have never thought to look in my box.



Thanks for the help John B!

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Update: I figured it out! It requires an adapter and Panasonic included it in the original box (thankfully, I save everything so I still have the original box, manuals, cables, etc... all in their original packaging too). Thanks to Crutchfield for a list of what came with the VT30, otherwise, I would have never thought to look in my box.



This saved me!! I just now got around to getting a playbase and was frustrated with optical cable not working. Good thing I saved all the packages that came with my Panasonic Plasma. Couldn't be happier and a BIG THANK YOU to OP!!

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