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Originally Posted by Blix
I think it accepts spdif but that cable also costs much. I checked the back of the PS3 slim and it does have the interface for that cable. I'd like to be able to use 5.1 but as long as I have my sound, it's cool.
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SPDIF is digital, so that should give you 5.1. If you have SPDIF on your computer, that should work perfectly, and you wouldn't have to constantly switch your speakers from your computer to your games. You would have to have your computer on, though, for the speakers to work with your games.
Btw, as I understand it, SPDIF uses the same signal as optical, they just use different cables.
Going back to video, use DVI over VGA any time you have the option. The quality will be better in all cases.
By far most regular DVI ports do not carry audio. Some new video cards output audio on their DVI port (such as your brother's 4870), which is meant to make new DVI-to-HDMI HDTV or HD-monitor with speakers hookups simpler. But for everything else, DVI does not have audio.