Can't you use an optical sound cable in the official docking station?

[felixen]

I bought the apple docking station (the one that comes with the little remote) and tried putting in my optical cable but no sound came out. then I put in a regular composite one and it works fine. Doesn't it work with optical?


Also, for those of you who got this docking station, do you also have a hard time for the remote/dock to register when you hit a button? I sit a few feet away in my chair and I have to stretch my arm and aim at the dock before it'll receive signal from my remote

 

[felixen]

As for the remote being weak, can it be because the dock stands next to my mac mini, stereo, tv, dvd player and satellite dish receiver that it has a hard time catching the sigal? Cause its very weak. the remote works better on the computer than on the dock

 

[felixen]

im figuring the optical cable wont work with the dock, but im really interested in the remote thing. See I got the dock from ebay and the box had been opened so i dunno if its damaged or if the remote signal is always this weak (or the dock is weak at picking up the signal, i dunno)