What is Dolby® Digital Live?

With Dolby® Digital Live technology, you can now enjoy audio from your PC or game console through your home theater. A real-time encoding technology, Dolby Digital Live converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bitstream for transport and playback through a home theater system. With it, your PC or game console can be hooked up to your Dolby Digital-equipped audio/video receiver or digital speaker system via a single digital connection, eliminating the confusion of multiple cables and ensuring the integrity of the audio signal.

The real-time interactive capabilities of Dolby Digital Live technology are ideally suited to PCs and video game consoles because it reproduces audio cues and effects that follow the on-screen action, transforming gameplay into an exciting and realistic entertainment experience.

Systems using Dolby Digital Live technology can provide Dolby Digital (5.1-channel surround sound) during gameplay, immersing players in high-quality surround sound that puts them at the center of the action. Gamers hear every window shatter, feel every explosion, and experience every wipeout.

Dolby Digital Live technology is integrated into the motherboard audio chipsets of many high-performance PCs. These PCs provide an S/PDIF connector and use a digital cable for one-step connection to a home theater system. Dolby Digital Live can also enable other future entertainment capabilities on the PC because of its ability to deliver any audio source via a single digital interface to an existing home theater system.

Configurations

Montego DDL's 8-channel outputs can be used in a variety of configurations, ranging from stereo with multiple headphones to full 7.1 surround sound. A versatile array of inputs and outputs let you connect a wide variety of devices for recording and playing back different audio sources with your PC.

Speaker Configurations

Analog Surround Sound

The analog outputs can drive powered speakers in a wide variety of setups including stereo, 4 speaker, 5.1 and 7.1 surround providing the utmost in flexibility when configuring your audio system. The front channel output can also drive standard headphones.

Digital Surround Sound

The S/PDIF output bypasses all analog processing, transmitting PC audio in pure digital format. A single optical cable provides a simple connection for sending 5.1 channels to a home theater system or digital speakers with a Dolby® Decoder.