5.1 Soundcards & Home Theatre Systems

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Hey there!

Im currently looking at having a pc built for me, and have been looking at soundcards.

I have a sony home theatre system (5.1 system), and want to hook up the new pc to it.

After looking at the 5.1 soundcards the analogue outputs appear useless for what i want to do, but looking at the optical s/pdif outputs, i think might work.

My question is whether placing an optical lead from the "s/pdif out" to the "optical in" of my home theatre system will successfully link the two up?
 
I have found the answer to this problem, in order to get true 5.1 sound from an optical spdif out, you need a card with upmixing capabilities.
 
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