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This seems to be yet another thread started by someone we don't know, but which incites a stream of useful information in any case. 
Ruff: Hope you're getting your answer.
From what I distill from all this blather ...we are into yet another terminology battle and what I assumed in the first place is correct...."Digital in" on a home A/V reciever = "S/PDIF out" on my Marvel.
But I'll still 'try before I buy'.
Xortam: The connector on my Marvel BOB is definetly S/PDIF out and only active when the Hardware Module is plugged in...I just checked the manuals. It isn't particularly well documented 'cause Matrox abandoned this concept VERY quickly...but it IS there. My own dim understanding is that the S/PDIF stream is decoded through the hardware module and outputted to the BOB, assuming that you will then connect this stream to either a compatible powered speaker array (as in the Cambridge/Creative line) or to a compatible A/V reciever.
The only reason I posted in on this thread in the first place was my own paranoia that I'd been misdirected some 16 months ago when I bought this thing, and that an A/V reciever wouldn't be compatible.
Ruff: Hope you're getting your answer.
From what I distill from all this blather
...we are into yet another terminology battle and what I assumed in the first place is correct...."Digital in" on a home A/V reciever = "S/PDIF out" on my Marvel.But I'll still 'try before I buy'.
Xortam: The connector on my Marvel BOB is definetly S/PDIF out and only active when the Hardware Module is plugged in...I just checked the manuals. It isn't particularly well documented 'cause Matrox abandoned this concept VERY quickly...but it IS there. My own dim understanding is that the S/PDIF stream is decoded through the hardware module and outputted to the BOB, assuming that you will then connect this stream to either a compatible powered speaker array (as in the Cambridge/Creative line) or to a compatible A/V reciever.
The only reason I posted in on this thread in the first place was my own paranoia that I'd been misdirected some 16 months ago when I bought this thing, and that an A/V reciever wouldn't be compatible.
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