Yes you do still get the surround.... Its encoded on the cable somehow.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:02 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT Digital audio cables On Tue, 10 May 2005 10:59:00 +1200 Craig FALCONER wrote: > The optical cable will be fibre, and hence more expensive. > > If its just a matter of convenience, then hook tbe linux box onto a > regular line-in. It'll be just as good, given that the sound card is > in an RF rich case anyway... But then I would not get surround sound from all those downloaded divx's with ac3 soundtracks. -- Nick Rout
