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Uploaded by on Feb 21, 2008

http://live.pirillo.com - One of the callers from the 888-PIRILLO line is having trouble connecting his home theater system to his PC. He can hear sounds coming from it, but when he plays games and such, he's not getting surround sound.

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  • That caller still doesnt have a clue...

  • oh god. advertising apple again.

    um... chris, hate to tell you this. go and buy any motherboard or any sound card for PC and, they'll have coax and toslink.

    and, you didnt say, that outputting it via toslink doesnt decode the signal, thats why analog 3.5mm connectors are better often.

    the A/V reciever is upmixing it to surround sound.

    and chris! how he is connecting the 360 to the reciever is the same as how he is connecting the PC to the reciever!!!

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  • I seriously dont get why your shitty videos are so high rated, that guy need a BETTER CAMERA ! coz i cant hear or see shit !

  • The receiver is "emulating" surround sound from the audio coming from the devices.

  • Just needed to use TOSLINK.

  • Come to think of it, Chris didn't answer the qn because he probably didn't know or was too lazy to dig more into the troubleshooting bit.

    What the caller is saying is that he's got his own PC plugged into his receiver and speakers in a 5.1 setup via a 3.5mm to L/R RCA jack and he's not hearing 5.1 sound. Quite obvious, the answer actually is.

  • That caller is a retard.

  • wtf do u mean apple chose a better route lol. any pc motherboard worth crap will have a optical "toslink" and coaxial output. even my rampage 3 on board has a optical output. i have a question though will a higher quality sound card mean better optical sound or does it just send a straight signal out without dac? for example if you have on board optical and asus essence stx optical will they sound the same?

  • from my desktop minijack, i have a minijack cable (male to male), which goes ino one side of my merkury ipod mixing board. from the rca's of the mixing board, it goes into two recievers (600 watts each) off those amps i have two 1200watt peak - 400watt rms subwoofers in one cab, and two 600watt peak - maybe 150rms loudspeakers. MY PROBLEM is that there is almost a clipping sound from the woofers (like they were blown) not even close to full power. i have run several tests, problem=pc input??????

  • NO I HAVE THAT CABLE AND I PLAY 5.1 GAMES IN

  • To geek's this is sex hahahaahahaaa and chris just talk about he's relation ship with his mac yeah right umJum you dont say> the other guy is lost XD

  • @ThePaulg123

    Not necessarily. It could be digital though coax.

    But yes in this video, he's definitely correct. The caller is just using normal stereo output.

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