DOES YOUR SOUNDCARD DECODE DOLBY DIGITAL/DTS SURROUND? 

For licensing and copyright protection purposes, soundcard manufacturers 
are effectively prevented from adding DD/DTS decoders to their products. 
The reasoning is that the only legal use of DD/DTS decoders is for playback 
of licensed soundtracks from DVD movies. In your PC, a DVD player software 
must decode your DD/DTS soundtrack, NOT the soundcard. 

Many customers have asked us how to use the S/PDIF Digital Input to decode
surround sound from external players such as the Microsoft Xbox 360,
standalone DVD players or other computers. Because of the above-mentioned 
licensing and copyright protections, this is not possible. 

However, you can use a home theater receiver, or one of the new Home Theater 
In a Box (HTIB) powered speaker systems from Logitech, Samsung and others. 
Both of these product types have built in DD/DTS decoders, so will accept 
an incoming data stream from the Digital Out of Turtle Beach PCI soundcard 
and USB sound products. 

Our Montego DDL *encodes* game audio to the new Dolby Digital Live format, 
so you can hear positional audio from your PC games. It DOES NOT decode DD/DTS
soundtracks. Again, you need a DD/DTS decoder, either a software version or a
hardware decoder in your home theater receiver or Home Theater in a Box. 
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