PCMCIA Digital Audio output? Do they exist?

[Kelemvor]

I'm looking into possibly using my laptop to connect to a projector to play a movie because I can use the VGA port for better quality than the S-Video port on my DVD player. (Projector doesn't support anything else).

Anyway, if I use the DVD player, I can hook it to my receiver and have digital audio for surround sound and such. If I use the laptop, I can get better video but would just have the headphone jack to go audio out to my receiver with just the red/white rca ports so I'd lose the surround sound and such.

So, do they make any sort of PCMCIA card that would have a digital audio out that I could play the DVD in the laptop, have the VGA going to the projector and this digital audio then to the tuner for the best of both worlds?

I wasn't able to find anything so I'm not sure if they really exist or not or if it's only in the hundreds of dollars range.

Thanks.

 

[DaveSimmons]

If the laptop has USB 2.0 (instead of 1.x) you can buy USB soundcards with digital out for around $50 at newegg.com. I haven't used any of them. CHeck user reviews and /or google for comments/reviews.

There have been PCMCIA soundcards including Sound Blasters, I don't know which ones had digital.

 

[zephyrprime]

Creative labs pcmcia audigy.