Purchasing a Computer for a media room. Going to hook the computer up
to a desktop monitor with built in speaker, and to a large screen TV
with audio hookup. Getting a video card is easy since I will be able
to use either monitor individually or both at the same time. But what
about audio? Do I need a special card for audio? Afraid the audio
from the computer will come out of the large TV LCD even though I am
not using it as a monitor. Any ideas?

In article <14721342-862f-400b-983f-cc535764c859
@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Albert says...
> Purchasing a Computer for a media room. Going to hook the computer up
> to a desktop monitor with built in speaker, and to a large screen TV
> with audio hookup. Getting a video card is easy since I will be able
> to use either monitor individually or both at the same time. But what
> about audio? Do I need a special card for audio? Afraid the audio
> from the computer will come out of the large TV LCD even though I am
> not using it as a monitor. Any ideas?
>
It won't unless you connect a cable from the soundcard to the LCD TV.

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Conor wrote:
> In article <14721342-862f-400b-983f-cc535764c859
> @r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Albert says...
>> Purchasing a Computer for a media room. Going to hook the computer
>> up to a desktop monitor with built in speaker, and to a large screen
>> TV with audio hookup. Getting a video card is easy since I will be
>> able to use either monitor individually or both at the same time.
>> But what about audio? Do I need a special card for audio? Afraid
>> the audio from the computer will come out of the large TV LCD even
>> though I am not using it as a monitor. Any ideas?
>>
> It won't unless you connect a cable from the soundcard to the LCD TV.

Unless of course he's connecting VIA HDMI from a compatible video card.
This is exactly what I do with mine. If I switch over my PC to the LCD
telly, the sound is ported as well via HDMI from my Radeon 4850. If I'm
using my PC normally, it uses my X-Fi card.
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In article <0pRWk.7030$(E-Mail Removed)2>, SteveH says...
> Conor wrote:
> > In article <14721342-862f-400b-983f-cc535764c859
> > @r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Albert says...
> >> Purchasing a Computer for a media room. Going to hook the computer
> >> up to a desktop monitor with built in speaker, and to a large screen
> >> TV with audio hookup. Getting a video card is easy since I will be
> >> able to use either monitor individually or both at the same time.
> >> But what about audio? Do I need a special card for audio? Afraid
> >> the audio from the computer will come out of the large TV LCD even
> >> though I am not using it as a monitor. Any ideas?
> >>
> > It won't unless you connect a cable from the soundcard to the LCD TV.
>
> Unless of course he's connecting VIA HDMI from a compatible video card.
> This is exactly what I do with mine. If I switch over my PC to the LCD
> telly, the sound is ported as well via HDMI from my Radeon 4850. If I'm
> using my PC normally, it uses my X-Fi card.
>
Ah my bad, I forgot some motherboards come with HDMI now.

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