Comment Re:Dwindling customer base (Score 1) 351
Motherboard sound isn't that great, but who has really great computer speakers anyway? What ordinary user even swapped his speakers from the craptastic freebies that came with his Dell?
While I'm not an ordinary user, I still use my motherboard sound and it's hooked up to a Kenwood home theatre setup. The sad thing is that the Intel HD audio on my motherboard sounds better than the Creative stuff I have. Add in that the onboard audio has Dolby Digital Live (I run toslink to the home theatre) it saves the hassle of running a bunch of analog cables to get 5.1 in anything that's not pre-recorded since Creative seems to be rather obstinate about using EAX and nothing else. If the PC game industry ditches EAX, it's over for Creative. I can see nothing else keeping them afloat.
While I'm not an ordinary user, I still use my motherboard sound and it's hooked up to a Kenwood home theatre setup. The sad thing is that the Intel HD audio on my motherboard sounds better than the Creative stuff I have. Add in that the onboard audio has Dolby Digital Live (I run toslink to the home theatre) it saves the hassle of running a bunch of analog cables to get 5.1 in anything that's not pre-recorded since Creative seems to be rather obstinate about using EAX and nothing else. If the PC game industry ditches EAX, it's over for Creative. I can see nothing else keeping them afloat.
