Una interesante cuestión acerca del DD 5.1

Indagando en la net he encontrado una interesante entrevista realizada al equipo de creative acerca de la inclusión en sus futuras tarjetas de la tecnología de las xbox: "dolby digital interactive content encoder". Me imagino que sabreis para que sirve esto, pero por si estais un poco perdidos os comento que es la tecnología necesaría para que el UT2003 pueda funcionar con dolby digital. Aqui esta la entrevista (no tengo tiempo de traducirla, pero es un inglés muy básico): In my Q&A with Creative I asked if they would ever think of implementing the “Dolby Interactive Content Encoder” like Microsoft uses in the Xbox. Here’s what Creative replied: “A: This is an interesting question, the answer of which can help in better understanding the difference between a chip designed for PC Audio and one designed instead for set-top game consoles like Microsoft’s XBox. The Sound Blaster Audigy card has been specifically designed for the PC Audio applications, like video games and digital music. Most of the PC Games shipping today make use of real-time 3D positional audio and EAX techniques to enhance the audio experience of the player. Sound Blaster Audigy can output six separate audio channels and it can be connected to the any standard and very affordable multi-speaker systems for PC such as Creative’s DeskTop Theatre DTT2200. There is therefore no need to encode the already multi- channel audio signal into a Dolby Digital stream and to decode it once again outside the PC before sending to the speaker system. This would be a waste of time and would require the addition of an external Dolby Receiver/Decoder that not everybody can afford quite yet or which may be available in the house but in another room as the PC isn’t always in the living room. With the console machine instead the location and use of it may well be very different from a PC system. You would most probably have the game console in your living room, connected to your TV set and if you are one of the so called “early adopters” you will certainly have it plugged in to your Dolby Digital sound system that you also use when you watch DVD movies. In this case, in order to experience surround sound during the game it is necessary to encode the multi channel audio signal coming from the game console into a format that can be received by your sound system, which is obviously Dolby Digital signal. There wouldn’t be any other way of rendering multi channel audio from the console via a living room surround sound system, since console machines don’t have discreet multi channel outputs and standard consumer Dolby Digital systems don’t have multi channel inputs. As you can see, the technology offered in a product is very much a result of the user requirements and of the environment this product is to be used in. Should of course these prerequisites change then the technology used can take different directions to satisfy the demand.” So, it seems that we won’t see the “Dolby Interactive Content Encoder” anytime soon in Creative’s products. Good or bad, you decide.