Anyone considered doing something extremely "hacky" like this?
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I have a few powered monitors already and it'd be nice if I could have them work double duty between my audio mixing (when editing) and watching movies when I'm not working. I know Atmos is a whole can of worms intended to be a money pit, but the tinkering aspect is pretty high up there on things I like doing.
I wouldn't call it hacky, I used to use three generic stereo USB dacs combined in software and a cheap HTIaB dvd player combo kit as a 5.1 many many moons ago connected to an old ibook.
No it was fine for years, later model G4 so had fewer issues than the earlier ones.
But i think it was still the GPU overheating that killed it in the end, those ATI 9200s ran toasty once the thermal paste dried up and cracked.
Used to play COD 1 on that thing during lunch at school. what a life.