HTPC Building Series: Achieving great 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound - Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Movies, PC / Laptop
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Not bad if you don’t mind using your computer as the receiver. Every aspect of home theater can be pumped through the computer nowadays, but I still wonder about the practicality of having speaker line outputs from the computer rather than going to an offboard processor to do your surround sound. I mean, you can’t take HDMI inputs to process the other components that are bound to be in the home theater—those would have to connect to another receiver which probably sits next to the HTPC anyway.
To add, with one remote, I can control all aspects of my home theater. With a computer as the brains, try controlling the DVR’d shows, then playing music through the iPod, then switching to FM, then playing some Xbox games.
posted by: spencer · 1/23/09
With the 7.1 card, which is what we are using, that plugs into a receiver 😉
posted by: Andru Edwards · 1/23/09