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No Dolby Digital sound card from Creative

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Source from the Inquirer.

MANY OF YOU have asked us about Creative Labs' mysterious PCIe sound card that is supposed to be a super duper Sound blaster Audigy 3. We learned that there is no Audigy 3 and that Creative Labs has instead moved to the Audigy 4 Pro card. This card is merely an upgrade from Audigy 2.

We asked Creative Labs about the PCI Express card several times and it has confirmed to us that now there are no any plans for such a sound card.

It seems that Creative is not working on a Dolby Digital Live compliant card that can do 5.1 encoding. So all of you sound lovers will have to stick with the Nvidia Nforce 2 sound stuff for the time being.
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Inquirer seems hit or miss to me on reports,however if this is true I`m not surprised, since Creative do own the market and don`t have much competition.

 
I`m hoping Nvidia will bring out a PCI Express SoundStorm card,that would really give Creative some serious competition.
 
God knows I'm ready to buy a stand alone SS card, only for now I hope they release a PCI version so I can use it on my NF3-250Gb mobo.
 
Originally posted by: PinwiZ
They can't release a PCI version of Soundstorm. It uses too much bandwidth. It'd have to be PCI-Express.
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It wouldn't use any more PCI bandwidth than a regular multichannel sound card -- it does the encoding onboard. And even if the encoding was done in software, there's certainly no problem transmitting encoded DD5.1 over the PCI bus, as every soundcard with DD passthrough can do. Plus, I'm almost certain the SoundStorm chip in the NF2 hung off the PCI bus logically anyway.
 

We asked Creative Labs about the PCI Express card several times and it has confirmed to us that now there are no any plans for such a sound card.

It seems that Creative is not working on a Dolby Digital Live compliant card that can do 5.1 encoding. So all of you sound lovers will have to stick with the Nvidia Nforce 2 sound stuff for the time being.
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Sound lovers and DD? That's pretty funny.
 
So ... what is the limitation?

What is keeping someone from puting out a sound card that can do real time dolby digital encoding?

At 16bit x 44.1KHz CD quality, you get ~700Kbps/s. That's less than 100KBps, so multiply that by 20 channels, and you're still less than 2MBps. Nowhere near PCI bus saturation.

 
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