SPDIF support

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 12:46:43 EDT 2007


On 4/6/07, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 April 2007 12:05:39 brk wrote:
> > For general 2-channel listening it's not worth it, IMO.
> There's at least one more reason for it. If you're doing spdif, you're
> probably handing off the raw digital audio stream to a device that has a much
> better dolby digital decoder (your amp) than a sound card, so you'll get
> truer sound. Its an absolute must for me for HDTV and DVD viewing.

  That OTA HDTV?  Many HDTV content providers gimp the quality of the
audio down to 5.1 over the SPDIF, and will only provide 1080p/Dolby
7.1 over HDMI.  Just a note.

-- 
-- Thomas


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