Well. Surprise surprise, the output on the Acer 6920 IS an optical jack...plugged in the cable and it sent out glorious 5.1 sound with just a few minor adjustments to settings.
Still can't believe Acer aren't ramming it down your throat that their laptops have built-in optical ports.
Thanks - same adapter over here costs £2.49...welcome to ripoff Britain. I have bad experiences with in-line plug-in adapters anyway, so I'm going to shell out on a cable that is mini-TOS at one end and TOS at the other. I'm also going to get the adapter and RCA coax cable too...I'll post back...
I have the same issue and hoped someone could help. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 6920 and it says it has "Headphone/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support". It does not say whether or not this is only electrical, only optical, or both.
From what I've read I have two ways of getting it to...