AMC3 and AC3 Passthrough Audio

[reho33]

Some channels on AMC3 are AC3. How do I get the audio out ? (PBS)

[rainman]

your receiver has to have ac3 pass through spdif port then you hook to a stereo system with digital audio input.

[wejones]

My Fortec Lifetime, and Lifetime Ultra have the S/PDIF as an electrical RCA port, which I connect to a Soundblaster Extigy that I use as a decoder. However in the table that Sadoun recently posted, it looks like all the new Fortec receivers have an optical connection instead of the electrical connection. Can someone with one of the new receivers comment on whether this is the case? I "think" my soundblaster can also take the optical too, but I'm not sure. But if it is true that the new receivers only have optical, this might make a difference to other users who didn't have an audio system with an optical input.

[rainman]

yeah I am lucky also Bill my koss has optical also.