Using PC & Home Theater

[Glow11]

Anyone know of a soundcard allowing me to hook my PC up to my home theater reciever and play multichannel sound from games via my home theater system?
Seems a total waste if I can only play Xbox games on my high end home theater system.

 

[williamc]

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Windows is like a house of cards... One wrong move and it all comes crashing down.

 

[Glow11]

Hmmmm....interesting thought, but not terribly on topic.

I'm assuming you're a Linux guy....how do you hook you linux box up to your home theater then?

Unless your a Mac guy, in which case you couldnt possibly have anything helpful since there are no games.

 

[Lamoni]

You can hook up any sound card up to your home theater receiver. You can always hook up L/R RCA audio cables and you can get up to Pro-Logic sound.

The real question is if your receiver has digital inputs and what ones (coaxial or optical)? Then you just need a sound card that supports that output and you can get the better 5.1 or 6.1 sound. I only use a SB Live! value myself and it hooks up for Pro-Logic sound, but it still sounds great on my good speakers. I bet it sounds better than any computer speakers you can buy, but of course the speakers cost me close to $1,000 and good computer speakers are a little cheaper than that.

One of these days I will be able to afford really good home theater speakers, but my wife insists that the ones we have are good enough. Maybe when I start making a 6 figure salary she will decide otherwise. One can always hope