Dolby Decod

Ok like every one else on the board i am happy that my sound no longer crackles or pops, and i have definately experienced an improvement of quality in sound, but, and this maybe a newb question and for that I'm sorry but does anyone know when the Xfi series with dri've bay will be capable of using the Dolby digital decoding feature and the remote supplied with the unit, obviously i know that time and effort had to be put into getting the drivers released and working correctly first, and i am in no way having a go at creative. i was just hoping for some sort of time frame for my card to be used for decoding again.

The NX can't decode Dolby Digital from an external source. If you can actually hear stereo, it means that the DVD player is decoding the data. If you get a decoder, the DVD player should be set to output the raw digital data rather than PCM.

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