I know of no sound card under $1000 (maybe even $5000) that can do realtime Dolby Digital encoding. But whether the actual sound quality in terms of S/N et al. will be any good nobody can say yet ...

I just swaped out my MSI Nforce3 board for the MSI Neo4 (Nforce 4) board.After this swap, I don't have any digital audio. Both coax and optical (which has no light coming out) have no signal. My ...