HDMI specific Xbox 360 Elite details emerge

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Kevin @ Apr 1st 2007 3:38PM

Problem with the 5.1 over optical is it doesn't support Full bandwidth 5.1 DD+ and TrueHD soundtracks. It will simply convert these to DD or DTS and send it over Optical. This is why you need 5.1 PCM over HDMI, to allow these high bandwidth codecs to be decoded into PCM and passed through to your receiver. So yeah, the new Xbox 360 Elite isn't so elite after all. The old 360 can do everything this one can just not through HDMI.

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Roland Haas @ Apr 8th 2007 1:40AM

Actually, optical does support 5.1, but it has to be a 5.1 encoded source such as a DVD movie or 5.1 encoded game. My creative X-Fi has no problem sending 5.1 over optical from a movie to my logitech z5500s.

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