5.1, lets say ... HT-SF470 Sony.

PC has DVi. But I can get a HDmi converter.

Do I need extra device? Can I not hook all speakers to PC's back panel IO ports?

Ok ill check graphic card spec. If audio transmit is supported then all I need is to hook up hdmi to tv and all audio speaker cables to the back of the tv right ?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this matter   

hi djlah, "the pc hdmi out" , do you mean the hdmi from the graphic card?

currently i connected some devices like pc/astro/ps3 to my tv,

do you mean,

pc--->HomeTheatre<--->TV--->Asto & PS3

so all my devices will have the sound if only my HT set comes with both input & output

am i right?

Hey guys, any type of graphic to recommend for movie and gaming? Wanna put it in a desktop and connect it to the tv.

200-300

i using it now. ATI 5570 1GB DDR3, sometime feel lagging even running a mkv file with DTS-HD audio:(

If i were to use coaxial or optical TOSlink and select DTS audio from the movie played from HTPC, will my HT amp be able to switch to DTS mode? (my HT amp supports DTS 5.1)

Okay. All solved then. Just an optical cable will do. Arghhh i bring my whole pc out there. Quite weird.

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Added on December 23, 2012, 1:59 pmBtw, must we install those windows media center or media broswer those? Those have nice graphic interface.
  Can i just straight open the file using vlc player something like that?
Cause vlc player can choose ur audio device,once i chose optical then automatically change to the audio format the file have, like dts or dd5.1 then my avr auto change also,
its quite convenience, is there any other media player better than vlc?

Do all Intel Z77 & H77 mobo passthrough/bitstream HD audio through the onboard HDMI?

Also curious to know Z77 or H77 mobo stated 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec) onboard HDMI does it passthrough Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HDMA to AVR?

mobo using A55 chipset good enough?

You mean mobo with AMD A4,A6,A8 or A10 with built in Radeon HD7xxxD can bistream HD audio to AVR.

You are right GPU performance read somewhere Intel at least use i3 to run smooth full HD 1080p but not true 24p compare to AMD A4? able set true 24p, no info about bitstream HD audio.

Also, i read from you 1st page, seems like some recommended Mobo by AMD, e.g. M4A785G HTPC is meant for HTPC usage. but i heard that AMD chipset is not as good as i3 chipset when it comes to play bluray movies.

So hope to have more solid ideas from u all.

so which amd model is better than i3? I can search and compare the price.
my pioneer model is vsx-821
2) so as long as i have an optical port output from my soundcard to my amplifier, then i don't need to care what features my sound card to offer? am i right to say so?

Thanks bad2928.

u must be a fan of Asus, cause didn't c u choose Gbyte mobo also huh. 
Anyhow, a friend of mine try to connect the hdmi cable to his Yamaha amplifier, but it ended up failure. it can project the sound, but not the video. So he ends up get a pci sound card with optical cable to connect to his amp and the hdmi cable connect to the tv.

i'm not sure if his is a special case, or all amp suppose to be able to project out the video signal to the tv, and the sound to the speakers?

question, will i get better sound quality if i were to input my sound via optical instead? so my tv connect via hdmi directly? rather than pc-hdmi-avr-hdmi-tv?

i'm not sure, but if you have tested/survey before, do share with me.

so basically u r suggesting to me that both AMD or Intel chipset also will be fine for me since i'm not a hardcore gamer right? but for AMD, which chipset? intel is i3.

so basically hdmi output is far more superior compare to optical? i had the wrong impression then. i thought optical will produce better sound, but now thx for the tips.

oh, then do u support sapphire or gbyte gc? the pc shop guy told me sapphire is more preferred nowadays. but then sapphire only supports Radeon, whereby GByte supports got GeForce and Radeon.

Between GeForce and Radeon, which one you choose? Say GT640 and HD7750? If i buy this vga, then i'm pretty confident to play diablo 3 without any problem, rather than relying on my built-in vga

but u told me optical doesnt support 7.1, dobly true HD and dts-hdma? then it would be wasted if i have any movies with dolby true HD huh.

my bad, i3 processor. for AMD, which one is similar to i3 for my comparison?

why choose sapphire? from ur own experience? u feel radeon better than geforce?

thans bad2928. i think more or less i've made up my mind to get this sapphire 7750 vga card, to replace my onboard vga.

only thing is that if i wanna get the optical port or not. or just fully utilize the hdmi port.

haha, okie. set on 7750 radeon now
ok, thanks for the tips. will try to configure everything via hdmi. thanks again.
ok, thanks for the tips. i'll get a built-in optical port as my backup. most likely asus mobo.
anyhow, thanks again to you GUYS. i can now go to digital mall to buy the PC later noon time