Knowing and Installing Your Optical Digital I/O Card 6
CD-ROM drive (optional)
Digital Device
(e.g., DAT)
Optical
Digital I/O
card
Line In 2
Digital In/Out
Digital DIN
Digital
DIN
MIDI In
MIDI Out
PC-DVD drive
Digital I/O
Module
MPEG2 decoder card
Digital
DIN
FourPointSurround
Digital Speaker
System
DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital
Speaker System
Dolby Digital
(AC-3)
SPDIF In
Dolby Digital (AC-3)
SPDIF Out jack
MiniDisc
Recorder
SPDIF Out
(RCA)
SPDIF In (RCA)
Optical
Input
Optical
Output
2nd analog Line In for an
additional recording device
Line In and Rear In
(for audio cards
without Digital DIN)
Sound Blaster Live! card
Connect for downmix
audio only when a
Dolby Digital (AC-3)
decoder speaker
system in not
available.
Recording to or from an
external digital device
supporting RCA SPDIF
input/output
Playing Games and Music
with FourPointSurround or
DeskTop Theater 5.1
Speaker Systems
Watching DVD Movies
or Playing DVD Games
with DeskTop Theater 5.1
Speaker Systems
Recording and Content Authoring
with FourPointSurround or
DeskTop Theater 5.1 Speaker Systems
MIDI devices
(e.g., MIDI keyboard)
Figure 3: Recommended connection and usage examples.
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