Why does my SB Live! Value have a Digital Out connector???

[Agar]

Hi guys,

Just bought a new SB Live! Value card, and it has 5 connectors: 2 outputs, 1 mic, 1 line-in, and 1 DIGITAL OUT (yellow connector). Is that normal? I heard that the Value don't have a Digital out connector normally... please help.

 

[sohcrates]

all sblive's have digital out's. the most common use is to convert the output over to a single wire generic "RCA" cable, which would feed the coaxial digital input on your home stereo reciever. But of course, you'd need to have a receiver with coaxial ditial inputs (most home theater receievers do). basically, it's like hooking your speaker outs up to your receiver, but instead you are using a digital signal, and therefore get much better sound quality. you can convert the sblive! digital out over to RCA using a simple 1/8inch (may be 1/32nd) male to RCA female converter at Radio Shack.

 

[Agar]

Well, I knew normal Live! had the Digital out, but I was told that the Value! didn't had them... anyway 🙂
I bought the FPS2000 speakers too, they'll arrive in a few days. Will I be able to plug them in that Digital out, since those are digital speakers?

 

[Agar]

Just looked at the Live! Value pdf file fomr creative labs. Seems like a standard Value DON'T have a digital out connector, as it only have 4 connectors. Mine have 5. WTF?

 

[The Stigenator]

thank god that who ever you bought it from gave you the wrong card.. enjoy.

by teh way does it have an S/PDIF connection on teh inside, near the audio input/aux/etc etc.

cause you might have got a OEM live instead of OEM live value

 

[Agar]

Hey, that's great 🙂

Can anyone confirm that I didn't get a Value! card?

The_good_guy: don't seem to have such a thing... There's connectors for TAD, CD_IN and AUX_IN.

 

[Nullity]

I think the new SB Live! Values do come with digital out. I don't have proof of this but I have seen many people in For Sale/For Trade Forums looking to buy/sell SB Live! Value cards with digital out. Go look for yourselves. Do a search for: 'Live Value' in the For Sale forums. You'll find many many posts.

Null

 

[Agar]

Will I be able to use that digital out for my new FPS2000 speakers? I bought 'em thinking that I would use them with the analog connectors, even if they are capable of digital, but using them with that digital connector would be cool 🙂

 

[Zeeliv]

SB Live! Value's have had a digital out for almost an entire year. I got mine at the end of last November. Anything that says otherwise is simply outdated. When they switched over to having the Platinum, Mp3 and X-Gamer all the SB Live! cards started using the same card, meaning that all of them have digital out (with the exception of certain odd OEM cards).

 

[Erasmus-X]

The first SB Live! Value cards didn't have digital-out (these were mostly the cards manufactured late '98 through mid '99). The newer Values, in both OEM and retail (X-Gamer, MP3+) forms have that yellow digital out. Unfortunately, since it's not an industry-standard SPDIF out, it tends to be troublesome when you're trying to output a true bitstream signal for Dolby Digital or dts. I no longer have to deal with this problem anymore, now that I have a set-top DVD player that connects very easily to my receiver.