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    Does 7805u have 5.1 out of the box?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by tazboy, Oct 31, 2009.

  1. tazboy

    tazboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I hook up my HDMI to my TV I don't get 5.1 as a choice from Control Panel --> Sound --> Configure. I only get 2 channels.
     
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    You need an external sound card.
     
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    tazboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    any suggestions?
     
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    you do get 5.1 through hdmi and optical toslink but only as passthrough audio so you need an external decoder such as a home theater system. so this mean only dolby digital live and dts surround will be more then 2 channel. if you want 5.1 in things that are not already encoded like a game you need a sound card
     
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    I have my computer hooked up, via hdmi, to my tv which is hooked up to my home theater system, via optical, which does dolby-dts. So watching a movie on my computer that is encoded as dts should work, correct?
    My hdmi property in the control panel doesn't even let me pick anything like dolby dts or dolby digital.
     
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    It again is PASS THROUGH! Meaning that it takes the direct digital audio content from the DVD and passes it to the reciever for it to decode. The soud card itself has no option for DTS, dolby, 5.1 or anything else other than the sound cards default stereo........
     
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    So you are saying that it will always show as 2 channel on my computer, but it should show up as 5.1 on my stereo? Is this correct?

    The movie that I'm playing is not from the DVD drive but from the hard drive. Does this matter?
     
    tazboy, Oct 31, 2009
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