New standalone device from Creative and DTS provides on the fly DTS encoding of audio, including DRM-protected content, as it passes from computer to home theater receiver.
Digital entertainment products maker Creative and surround sound company DTS today announced a standalone, self-powered encoder which they feel will help bridge the gap between a PC or media center and a multi-channel consumer electronics receiver. The Home Theater Connect DTS-610 will be available in September for $99.99.
The DTS-610 acts as a digital connection between all audio, including multi-channel and DRM-protected content, coming from a PC and going to a consumer electronics receiver. The audio is encoded in real time by the standalone device with DTS surround sound technology and digitally outputted to the home entertainment system through one cable.
The DTS-610, Creative said, is the first standalone hardware product on the market to uses DTS Interactive, a special real time version of DTS which does the previously mentioned on the fly encoding.
“Media center PCs are quickly becoming a necessary part of home theater systems, because of their ability to store and playback all types of content, including CDs, MP3s, DVDs, and downloaded movies. However, their limitations in handling DRM-protected content have kept media center PCs from blending seamlessly with the other components,” said Steve Erickson, vice president of audio for Creative. “The Home Theater Connect DTS-610 removes these limitations and allows real-time DTS Interactive encoding of all audio content. DTS is widely regarded by audio aficionados to be the premium sound solution for home theaters, and we are excited to release the first product on the market with the new DTS Interactive encoding process.”
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RSSI'm gonna miss this like crazy, and like you Dolby 212, I also make home dvd's with Dolby Digital AC3 soundtracks (Though i havent tried to encode DTS yet),
I use Sony's excellent Soundforge 8 + Vegas Video + DVD Lab and Soft encode to remix , encode the streams, I also make true stereovision DVD films (which require 3d Shutterglasses to View, but i don't want to bore you lot.
I am going from an Athlon 2500+ with x8 AGP GEFX 5600 to a Athlon Socket 939 Duel Core 64 bit @ 2.4 GHZ (3800) on a Gigabyte SLI Nforce4 Motherboard with dual SLI Geforce 6600 GT Gigabyte Graphics cards and have also plumped for two Western Digital Raptor 10,000 rpm Sata (Raid) drives.
I would love to be able to bitstream DTS through to my DTS Digitheatre sound system (Videologic).
One thing i would like to know though, do you think that DTS gaming will have the correct speaker placement for surround (obviously it'll depend i suppose on the games audio implementation or standard such as Directsound or Open AL)...also will the 610 output 44.1 (native DTS frequeency i believe for Audio DTS) & 48 + 96 khz..
There are only 2 ways to hook it up .
1 . connect your PC to multichannel input on your reciever
2 . use of this device
Since I own DVD-Audio player (which have to be connected thru multichanel input ) my only option are use of DTS-610 or always changeing cables in the back of my reciever.
Believe me big home theater speakers and quality amp will put ANY computer speakers to SHAME .
This way they should get higher quality sound and don't have to have multiple speaker systems! ;)