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An HTPC blu-ray drive upgrade would be the most cost-effective. Unfortunately, there is no PC hardware capable of outputting 7.1 channel uncompressed audio over HDMI. The best you can do is 5.1 over optical/coax (toslink/SPDIF). There are a few video cards that output audio over HDMI, but is identical to the 5.1 SPDIF output. I'm waiting for PC hardware that can handle all the format has to offer.