In my system that would be fine, and I'd be perfectly happy with that. It would certainly save you having to cut the back panel to the right of the optical out (and for all I know there could be electronics in the way there anyway).

I guess the only common-ish scenario this would remove would be using a laptop that only has VGA out. Maybe that makes it a bigger deal.

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