Does TV tuner output true 5.1?

[zalan]

Hi, I have taken a slightly different approach to the sound on my XP MCE. I am running the latest sound blaster card x-fi audio card to do all my processing using the 3.5mm ouput plugs to run into a strait 5 channel amp to reduce the amount of processing. The sound difference is much better whilst using My Dvd, My Movies, My Videos. When watching TV HD or SD the centre channel is very low output but left and right are very loud when sound effects or music is played.

If you use a digital ouput, the amplifier does the processing giving you the illusion that you have surround sound.

I have used 3 different Tuner cards including haupage 1100 (current), a compro t300. and also a compro e700.

For those that are using an AV reciever with digital input try selecting no processing on the amp and see what happens.

Thanks in advance to anyone that has feed back..

[Redwight]

Basically any digital tuner is recieving a Transport Stream which means if the soundtrack is in stereo that will be what it processes and if it's DTS thats what can get processed. The processing of audio would depend far more on defaults and codecs than what the tuner can do, and your sound card will then process the default sound stream. My personal preference would be to use optical outputs and let the amplifier do it's stuff.