Hi,
I'm soon planning on purchasing a Westinghouse 42" LCD to use as a small home theater TV. This display will NOT be used as a primary PC monitor, but I would like to occasionally allow it to receive input from my PC so I can game on it, as well as show videos and the like to visitors without them crowding around the TV.
The video side of things seems simple: use one of my two DVI ports, and send the signal to a DVI imput on the TV. The audio side has me a bit more confused.
I want to send the signal to my modest little home theater in a box receiver. I have available optical and digital coax inputs. Initially I had though about buying an X-fi specifically to gain it's digital outputs, but I now think I have a much cheaper option.
Because I only use a 2.1 speaker setup (see sig), I've never bothered with the array of onboard audio options on my motherboard (see sig). I see however that I have optical and digital coax outputs there.
So my question is, considering I want to save $$$ if possible, need to run the signal for a decent distance (probably 20 feet), and will either be outputting low quality Youtube type a/v, or very high quality Xbox360 HD-DVD drive a/v, what's my best bet? Will I loose out on anything using my onboard motherboard outputs? Does the fact that the MB only uses Realtec '97 mean I can't ever output the multi-channel audio the hypothetical HD-DVD drive would send to my PC? Is one of those output types better for a longer cable than the other?
Thanks for any and all help.
I'm soon planning on purchasing a Westinghouse 42" LCD to use as a small home theater TV. This display will NOT be used as a primary PC monitor, but I would like to occasionally allow it to receive input from my PC so I can game on it, as well as show videos and the like to visitors without them crowding around the TV.
The video side of things seems simple: use one of my two DVI ports, and send the signal to a DVI imput on the TV. The audio side has me a bit more confused.
I want to send the signal to my modest little home theater in a box receiver. I have available optical and digital coax inputs. Initially I had though about buying an X-fi specifically to gain it's digital outputs, but I now think I have a much cheaper option.
Because I only use a 2.1 speaker setup (see sig), I've never bothered with the array of onboard audio options on my motherboard (see sig). I see however that I have optical and digital coax outputs there.
So my question is, considering I want to save $$$ if possible, need to run the signal for a decent distance (probably 20 feet), and will either be outputting low quality Youtube type a/v, or very high quality Xbox360 HD-DVD drive a/v, what's my best bet? Will I loose out on anything using my onboard motherboard outputs? Does the fact that the MB only uses Realtec '97 mean I can't ever output the multi-channel audio the hypothetical HD-DVD drive would send to my PC? Is one of those output types better for a longer cable than the other?
Thanks for any and all help.
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