Recent content by Lumber-jack

You want light that is as close to "day light" as possible (6500K) to relieve the eyes. I thought about LED strips but they aren't high enough in the colour spectrum (2-3000K) the ones I looked at. An old school solution is to use florescent trouble lights as they are much higher "K". I just...

It will only give your Dolby digital from whatever is playing in the DVD player. Those all in one DVD players aren't the best thing and can only do one thing. You are better off just buying an old (but) receiver and speaker from Kijiji. I have built 4 separate sound systems in my house now for...

HDMI cables can carry audio and video however, I doubt that the audio signal is transmitted through your video card via HDMI as that is what you sound card is for. Order the 1/8" to RCA cable from Monoprice and be done with it. You will never get Dolby digital sound unless your computer can...

left and right is not 2.1... the x.1 is designated for sub woofer only. If you want 5.1 you need a receiver that will handle it and send digital signal from computer to it. You will also need more speakers. The DVD player has nothing to do with getting a digital signal from computer to receiver...

If you have digital optical or coax output from computer sure or just use a 1/8 phone cable to an RCA (red and white) into your receivers inputs but you won't have 5.1 and the best you could do it Pro logic.

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