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[News] Repulse sold outANN.lu
Posted on 15-Sep-2002 20:15 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä15 comments
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The Aliendesign homepage is back online with the news that their Repulse soundcard is now sold out and that the "product has been an inspiring and outstanding success.".
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Comment 5Don Cox16-Sep-2002 06:37 GMT
Comment 6Peter Gordon16-Sep-2002 07:01 GMT
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Comment 14Reverend Robb16-Sep-2002 23:10 GMT
Repulse sold out : Comment 15 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 17-Sep-2002 01:12 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Reverend Robb):
Well, if you don't care enough to know why 5.1 is different from 4 channel stereo then I think you'd be very happy with the following hack.
AC3 (= Dolby Digital) is an encoding for 5.1 surround that happens[*] to fit over an ordinary SPDIF connection. A suitable hardware decoder (they're widely available because a lot of Home Movie setups need one) can be connected to a SPDIF cable and will squirt out a bunch of surround channels.
Now, it's important to understand that the musical fidelity of a home movie 5.1 system is not considered very important. The Home Movie experience is all about loud noises, big stereo and lots of rumbling bass. So if you're the sort who would rather sit in silence than put up with FM radio this will not suffice.
The Repulse, or any other card with a SPDIF optical output can be persuaded to send AC3 encoded audio instead of the normal 2ch 44.1kHz (or 48kHz) PCM data. It doesn't need to "understand" the digital data so it doesn't matter that this is an alien encoding. So long as you don't try to listen to it through the analog output. Now you just need to create your AC3 data.
[*] Of course it's not really a coincidence.
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