![]() ![]() You can only use it with the Cambridge speakers, but you can get 5.1 with it, apparently. AFAIK, it's not an S/PDIF out, but some funky proprietary nasty thing. (Or TOSlink on the Live!Drive II or Hoontech's board.)Creative's digital out is a different beast altogether. ![]() It's the S/PDIF out on the Live! drive/Daughtercard whatever. (But not under Win2K View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif) This uses a different digital out than the one on the card. (Even the 5.1 version they just released doesn't do it.)Using PowerDVD and WinDVD however, you get a PASS THROUGH that sends the AC-3 signal over the digital out. 1.It's downmixed to 4.0 from 5.1, it's just that you have your woofer for all your speakers as the same one, which is not necessarily a good thing.The Live! can't do AC-3 output at all, under any circumstances whatsoever. That subwoofer on the Klipsch can't properly be called a. THis is what the DTT2500 can do.The OTHER way to get DD sound is via either PowerDVD or WinDVD.assuming you have a sound blaster live! card and a digital out cable to your DTT2500 or DTT3500 speakers, this will send the AC-3 signal via the digital out, and thus give you digital sound (and in my opinion, superior DVD quality).So if you buy these speakers, you can use them with your computer, a standalone DVD player or even the new Playstation 2. The DVD player or decoder card, while able to send this signal out directly from the DVD, cannot actually DECODE this signal.the signal is received by a.receiver/amplifier usually, which decodes the signal, and sends the sound to the appropriate speakers or channels, and amplifies the sound. Things like DVD players and Hardware decoder cards for computers come with AC-3 out, it looks like a coaxial cable. Perhaps it's SLIGHTLY more powerful, and the control box has slightly more features, but I'm reallly not 100% certain.AC-3 out is the dolby digital signal. Regarding my Soundworks 740 I'm now right back at the I spend dozens of hours reading up on the DTT2500 about 8 months ago, and I begin to have ~some~ understanding of it, and what it's compatible with (I'm still not 100% sure of what I would have to do to get true AC-3 thru an SBLive Value (digital ed.) + DTT2500.), and now I am presented with the following model names:SB Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater 5.1 Speaker CSW3000 $355.00 SB Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater 5.1 Speaker DTT2200 $240.00 SB Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater 5.1 Speaker DTT2500 $375.00 SB Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater 5.1 Speaker DTT3500 (CDN figures)What the hell is going on and why is cambridge trying to confuse me again? ARGHAlright.anyone with any info on these models, and whether or not there's any way to get *true* AC3 with these speakers and an SBLive Value digital edition.?Oh, last question.can I take a DTT2500 and hook it up to my standalone DVD player and get true AC3, somehow? someone said it's possible.is it?Īs far as I can tell, it's only the remote. For my project this information comes too late but others having to replace a character display while the original part isn't available anymore (PowerTip as I've found out has discontinued this product by the end of 2012) my findings may be helpful. For a product like the Soundworks 740 this timing is defined within the units firmware, so it's not possible to adapt it according to what the ST7066U requires without reengineering. 1:1 compatible by dimensions and instruction set the ST7066U requires a slightly different initialization timing as I've got to know by reading lots of contributions on several other forums meanwhile. The part came in really fast and I replaced the old, broken one the same day - unfortunately just to discover the Soundworks 740 does not like the change in LCD-controller at all ! While the original LCD-strip PC1602WRT-LWB-F-YB is built around a Hitachi HD44780 controller the Newhaven unit uses a ST7066U by Sitronix. Following TheFlinx suggestion I've ordered one of the Newhaven displays (NHD-0216SZ-FSW-FBW) at Digikey. ![]()
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