Hey all, my hands itchy... saw cables on the cheap... wanting to try optical output to my house home-theater... So... is the improvement worth the jump?

If i'm not mistaken that's the only way the 360 can output dolby digital signals...

comparing dolby digital and stereo/dolby prologic is like, VCD to DVD.

it depends on wat gear u have. My stereo system will beat the crap out of your 5.1 THX certified sony mini combo or those logitech PC Speaker ala home theater.

Stereo beating a surround sound? If you're talking about volume and punchiness, that might apply, but if you're talking about surround sound, no stereo speaker system can satisfactorily work even at Dolby Virtual Surround.

5.1 Dolby Digital Surround vs plain vanilla stereo? It's like HD video vs SD video. Can you live without it? Yeah, probably. Is it better with it? Hell, yeah!!

Yea, 5.1 def. beats stereo... but does optical 5.1 thrash "normal" 5.1 (as in I just plug the red and white cables from the 360 to my home-theater amplifier)?

This post has been edited by Pepperboy: Dec 20 2006, 06:02 PM

Yes. And on the box it is most noticable when you play Viva Pinata , GOW has too many explosions and bass booms...

The convinience of having a single connection to your amp simplifies your connection setup, avoiding that "maggi-mee" mess behind your HT setup.

I plug mine using the RCA cable from my 360 to my Yamaha RX-393 amp. I can hear moozipan behind my through my rear speakers while playing viva pinata. So means normal 5.1 still works but I would like to try using optical someday when I upgrade my amp. Current amp no optical input.

methinks that might be dolby prologic or something... unless the 360 manual is one big lie...

tech junkies, any comments?

Yes optical is good. I even go out and buy an amp just to replace my 3 year old Logitech Z680. Needed the 2 optical inputs on my amp. Now cannot on louder cos my neighbour will bising

the 360 don't support 5.1 via those red/white rca plug la bro... only via optical, then u have the option of dolby digital 5.1 or dolby digital 5.1 with WMA Pro.

using red/white rca plug the best u can get is dolby pro-logic only... if you have a dolby digital capable receiver with speakers, subwoofer and all and your question is: will the discreet dolby digital 5.1 kick the matrixed dolby pro-logic? hell yes

some articles from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Pro-Logic

oh, don't wet your pants yet... soon there will be an update to support dts(tm) output (source: go search the xb360 thread or google urslef lah, i want go eat already...)

This post has been edited by hikaru_x: Dec 20 2006, 06:58 PM

can 4.1 use optical cable ? And im using it for the pc as well. Plugged the jack into the soundcard's line in. ANy idea ?

The only way to get discreet 5.1 output is via optical. When you use the stereo connections the 360 with mix all the 5.1 channels into the stereo. You can virtual surround, but not true 5.1 surround.

Can't wait for DTS support hehe.

thx string fellow for clearing this out.
i lazy to explain to stereo-lovers, stereo is fun for songs, musics and etc, but not enuf to recreate the ambients for modern games & movies lah.


yeap


unless ur soundcard take optical in, and decode them into 4.1. or u meant something else?

I like playing with 7.1 surround sound...when playing GoW u can know where people coming cause can hear their footsteps...but Using Grenade Really BOOOM my subwoofer...hehe Was alone the whole weekend so i try using my TV and Home Teater....Very COOOL !!

fuah 7.1, sure damn syok 1

btw, tmr dun FFK~! go check the thread i posted in Unofficial Meetup

Er... what's this WMA Pro?

no wonder you pwn everyone.... cheat ehhehehehehe jk jk