I have a media PC hooked up to the receiver but no sweet soundcard so I am just using a eigth inch to red/white cable. If I put a DVD in that has 5.1 dolby digital anyone know if that cable going into the DVD red/white/yellow input will keep the 5.1?
Greg
Red/white RCA cables are just analog left and right stereo. I imagine your on-board sound chip would be downmixing the 5.1 to 2.0 to output through those cables. The Rx could then be set to 'DPLII movie' or NEO 6 or whatever to upmix back into a 5.1, but I don't think it would be quite as good as a straight digital signal (toslink/co-ax).
