KS> os2hardwarel{at}ftn.wpusa.dynip.com ha scritto:
>
> the sound cable that generally goes from the CD/DVD to the sound card 
> is for analogue sound like you find on music only CDs...

 KS> All data on CD is in digital form, 

pardon me/us for not being so verbosely explicit as to even go so far as to
describe the binary directory and catalog layout and storage method... of
course it is digital! ;)

 KS> Applies to Audio and video as well, even  when the recording had
 KS> been  made in analogue form  (older recording).

 KS> So all output coming from a CD, DVD etc is digital. And at a
 KS> certain  stage it has to be converted to analogue again (otherwise
 KS> we wouldn't  hear a damn thinh of course).

you might be surprised to learn that that is rather false... years ago, i
was developing a sound util that redirected everything thru the computer's
built in speaker :)  i was in the final stages of development when i
discovered another driver that did the same...

 KS> So when the mobo (and player) have a way to send the digaital info 
 KS> trough sata cable and trough the mobo to the sound card, you'll
 KS> have  sound too.

i don't do SATA so that isn't even part of the/my "argument" as
far as i'm concerned...

 KS> I'm a bit surprised eCS supports already this method.

i don't know why... surely the datastream contains the aproporiate
multimedia indicators that the object oriented code detects and directs to
the sound processing stuff... i mean, sheesh... we all know so much about
everything else, ya know ;)

)\/(ark