Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euros in damages

Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by boring_twenties on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:49PM (#26460791)

> external USB DAC that didn't suck as much as the onboard sound does

Shouldn't it output digital audio over HDMI?

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by core-questions on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:10PM (#26467748)

Sure does, but my beautiful-but-old amplifier does not have HDMI. I use SPDIF a lot, but haven't found a good cheap USB-to-SPDIF sound card yet. Plenty of pricier ones, but the point here is to find some use for something I already cheaped out on in the first place.

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by boring_twenties on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:52PM (#26472828)

I guess $25 might not be cheap enough either, but there are some HDMI->(HDMI+SPDIF) splitters on Amazon for that price.

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by m463 on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:21PM (#26461527)

That's an interesting thought. Is it easy to extract this in another form? Like coax spdif? Or do you need a home theater amp with hdmi in?

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by boring_twenties on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:49PM (#26472798)

Personally I'm using the latter, I forgot all about SPDIF. There are splitters on Amazon that take HDMI in and output HDMI video plus SPDIF audio, but they seem to all be in the $25 range, so may not be worth it.

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