best sound card?

[Blackmage]

Correct SiM

For any audio that is decoded external to the computer, the 'sound card' does not matter. In fact, you don't even need a traditional sound card as we know them, just something (optical/coax) to transport the stream to the other device. There is no DAC needed, or used in these situations

what sound tracks will allow for this Dolby digital?

Whats all this new lossless stuff about?

[Agent]

what sound tracks will allow for this Dolby digital?

Whats all this new lossless stuff about?

Almost every film DVD is Dolby Digital, although I'm not quite sure if thats what you meant by 'soundtracks'?

Lossless is how the actual data is compressed. For example, Dolby Digital is still a lossy format, like MP3 but just at a lot higher bit-rate. You still loose some of the quality from the orignal mastered sound in the studio. How much is debatable, although people with a good speaker setup swear that DTS is much better than Dolby Digital (DTS is still lossy, just at a higher bitrate over DD)

A lossless format stops all this. It doesn't matter what stream its encoded in, if its in a lossless format, the data should be the same regardless of the carrier type once its decoded.

[matty-hodgson]

right.. mounted my main lead speaker onto the wall before, and it's started picking up radio transmissions! :S
does anyone have ANY CLUE why it's doing this?
it's quite funny tbh..
he keeps saying M3MFI and he's talking, but i can only pick up 1 end of the conversation.