balupton wrote:Also 30minutes through, scoble says I heard it supports surround sound, and then Otto says that yes it has Stereo speakers....
How is 2.0 the same as 5.1 or 7.1
Sure SRS EMULATES Surround Sound on 2.0, but its still not surround sound.
Also earlier he said it has a headphone jack, to do surround sound out u need 3/4 output jacks, or 6/8 rc outs, or a fiber optic out.
I didn't see any of these on the UMPC.
So how is this meant to support surround sound!
The thing that i can think of to make it support surround sound is a dock, but then that depends on alot of things.
Home theaters use several speakers because you need to to give everyone in the room a surround sound effect.
A good sound card and a decent pair of headphones can provide excellent positional audio. After all, we only have 2 ears.
Surround sound effect is not 2 channel.
You cannot achieve this with only 2 channels - Left and Right, you need Left, Right, Center, Rear Left, Rear Right - At least.
There are multiple speakers so sounds can be located.
So with a 5.1 system I can tell exactly where the sounds are coming from, like say in star wars you can hear the spaceship come up behind you and then go infront as it does on the screen.
You can hear the bullets in the matrix movies fly past you.
You just can't do this with simply a left and right channel.