DTS Surround Sound*DTS Connect is the latest thing from DTS that turns XPC into an action-packed entertainment experience that surrounds you in sound. Make your movies, music and games come alive in exciting, dynamic, multi-channel DTS Digital Surround®, the same sound format found in movie theaters. DTS Connect is a whole new way to enjoy the XPC. And you thought text messaging was cool!
Dolby® Digital Live Surround Sound*Enjoy audio from the selected XPC models through your home theater system with Dolby® Digital Live. A real-time encoding technology, Dolby Digital Live converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bitstream for transport and playback through a home theater system. With it, XPC can be hooked up to your Dolby Digital-equipped audio/video receiver or digital speaker system via a single digital connection, eliminating the confusion of multiple cables and ensuring the integrity of the audio signal!
Up to 7.1 Channel Audio Output*
The Shuttle XPC comes with audio capabilities that are not usually found on personal computers. The high quality 6-channel Audio Output for connecting to 5.1 surround-sound speaker systems. This means that right out of the box you can listen to material without a sound card being installed. Now let's be clear, this is not professional quality audio but the quality is perfectly good for monitoring purposes. Certainly, you will need a high quality audio interface for serious work.
Line InThis port is designed for recording analog signals coming from most devices. It records at sampling rates up to 48KHz and is ideal for transferring audio from cassettes, DJ mixers, etc. for audio restoration applications.
Optical Digital Input*This port allow the recording of digital audio directly to the hard drive from an audio interface. You can use this to complete audio transfers to your Shuttle XPC from a digital recorder. This port uses the new cap-less connector so you won't lose your optical covers anymore.
SPDIF Output*With this port you can stream 16-bit audio from the hard drive to a digital recorder [DAT, Audio card, other Shuttle XPC System] at up to 48KHz. The Shuttle XPC System is the first audio computer with a built in digital output as standard equipment.
COAX Digital Output*
This port allow the streaming of digital audio directly from the hard drive to an audio interface. This is for devices with COAX digital inputs like audio interfaces, DAT machines and hardware digital recorders. For most Shuttle XPC users the digital I/O that will be used will be on the audio interface.
HDMI*
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first and only industry-supported, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface. By delivering crystal-clear, all-digital audio and video via a single cable, HDMI dramatically simplifies cabling and helps provide consumers with the highest-quality home theater experience. HDMI provides an interface between any audio/video source, such as a set-top box, DVD player, or A/V receiver and an audio and/or video monitor, such as a digital television (DTV), over a single cable.
DVI*
The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video interface standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It is designed for carrying uncompressed digital video data to a display. It is partially compatible with the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D).
eSATA*
eSATA is an external interface for SATA technologies. It competes with FireWire 400 and universal serial bus (USB) 2.0 to provide up to 6 times faster transfer speeds than existing external storage.
FireWire
This is the main 6-pin FireWire® 400 port. This is ideal for connecting your FireWire interfaces. This port has power so it can power most of the smaller FireWire interfaces that do not need to be plugged into AC power.
USB 2.0 Ports
Capable of a blistering transfer rate of 480MBPS, these ports allow for the connection of high performance storage devices and high definition audio devices. We have tested audio hard drives connected to these USB 2.0 ports and we can report that they are fast enough for large audio production with scores of audio tracks. The next major wave of USB 2.0 products will be high-definition [24/96/192] audio interfaces that connect to the computer solely through USB 2.0. We can't say enough about the tremendous power available to the audio professionals via USB 2.0.
LAN / Gigabit Ethernet*
The presence of a Gigabit ethernet port on the back of the Shuttle XPC means more than fast network connections, this port is fast enough to play large numbers of digital audio files over ethernet. So beyond being the best way to manage data, Gigabit ethernet allows digital musicians to access files without first bringing them to the local hard drive.
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard*
We were not content to force you to use your USB bandwidth for mouse and keyboard input data. We believe that the best protocol for connecting a keyboard and mouse to an audio computer is via a PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
COM Ports*
We realize that there are other things you want to do with your Shuttle XPC System besides music. To sync your handheld device simply connect it to the COM port and transfer your schedule or address book.