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Hi,
For my first post I thought I'd start with something thats been bugging me for a while. I've searched the forums here and I've done the Google thing and found nothing particularly enlightening.
What I want to do is very simple, I want to output TrueHD/DTS-HDMA from a HTPC. From my research, as I understand it, theres 2 ways to do it. One is to pass a bitstream out of the PC into something like the Onkyo which whould decode the stream for you or secondly to decode within the HTPC and pass out an analog stream via 6 or 7 analog cables.
That is as far as I've managed to glean from reading for a few weeks. What I basically have been looking for is quite simply "Buy any of the following cards, with the following software, and the following hardware and you can listen to the HD streams" but I've yet to find anything concrete.
So questions
1. How are people currently listening to HD streams from their HTPC
2. What is the preferred/most flexible/most capable method.
3. Which method gives the highest sound quality
Any help with this would be great - I'm not one to post to forums unless I'm right on edge of insanity.
G
For my first post I thought I'd start with something thats been bugging me for a while. I've searched the forums here and I've done the Google thing and found nothing particularly enlightening.
What I want to do is very simple, I want to output TrueHD/DTS-HDMA from a HTPC. From my research, as I understand it, theres 2 ways to do it. One is to pass a bitstream out of the PC into something like the Onkyo which whould decode the stream for you or secondly to decode within the HTPC and pass out an analog stream via 6 or 7 analog cables.
That is as far as I've managed to glean from reading for a few weeks. What I basically have been looking for is quite simply "Buy any of the following cards, with the following software, and the following hardware and you can listen to the HD streams" but I've yet to find anything concrete.
So questions
1. How are people currently listening to HD streams from their HTPC
2. What is the preferred/most flexible/most capable method.
3. Which method gives the highest sound quality
Any help with this would be great - I'm not one to post to forums unless I'm right on edge of insanity.
G