digital coax vs. digital optical. Hey there.. Are there any formats that digital coax doesnt support or doesnt transfer sound as well as digital optical cables ? (say in a audigy 2 setup with logitech Z-680s). In terms of mp3 playback (192kbps+) are there...

out of the Creative sound card, and RCA mono (white) end on a digital in. (As a digital coax cable is just a 75-ohm video RCA cable). When you go optical (or digital in general) you lose discrete channels. Digital is 1 channel. In effect it can only carry...

digital coax or optical. The XBOX and PS2 and DVD players transmit in AC3 encoded format, that is why you can get Dolby Digital audio through coax or a toslink optical cable. But I am wondering why the PC doesn't do the same? I am assuming that the...

resulting in only stereo output in digital mode. Check this out...it's got a digital coax coming right off the card...no need for adapters, special break out boxes, or extraneous cabling...just digital coax out to digital coax in..nice, clean, simple and with...

but they both carry the identical 'pass thru' Digital Video signal... HDMI also carries the Digital Audio signal... I'm reading that HDMI only carries Dolby Digital 2.0, not DD 5.1?? Archived from groups: alt.tv.tech.hdtv () Dennis...

well. The optical IN's were not assignable to any component, the DVD channel could only take COAX digital (so my DVD player, with only an optical OUT, had to go to VIDEO ONE), and I could not get it set up so that it would run the center channel, along...

to get signal to it. I have a Fostex DS-8 digital patch bay in the rack next to it. This digital patch bay has both coax and digital ins and outs and I am wondering how digital and coax compare in quality. I am mainly asking because I have one spare coax...

what component cables look like: S-Video, Coax, "RCA"/composite cables shouldn't be an option anymore, unless the device just doesn't support something better. HD requires component or better (applies to digital cable). - Calibrate the TV soon! If...

Surround sound vs. TV speakers. Archived from groups: alt.tv.tech.hdtv () After purchasing the Toshiba 57h83 last winter, I'm jonesin for some surround sound with this thing. I've been looking around at some systems and particularly some packages from BB...

Digital Coax vs Digital Optical. Whats the difference between the two, and which one gives better quality? I'm looking into buying a 5.1 surround sound set up and my sound card has both optical and coaxial outputs. . Whats the difference between the two, and...