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Old 07-14-2003, 11:33 PM   #1
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what is SPDIF?
what is SPDIF? what functionality does it provide.
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S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a standard audio transfer file format. It is usually found on digital audio equipment such as a DAT machine or audio processing device. It allows the transfer of audio from one file to another without the conversion to and from an analog format, which could degrade the
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For the purposes of a PC, it can output a digital signal without conversion to analog, so you can output DD 5.1 and DTS audio tracks from a DVD unaltered to an external receiver, for instance.
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