Dolby Digital Live for X-Fi & Audigy

We might be tempted to say that certain bad habit die hard at Creative. The creator of the Sound Blaster recently announced on its forum that Dolby Digital Live encoding would soon be possible with the Audigy and X-Fi although it will not be free. In fact, this technology from the Singaporean company has been long awaited. On the other hand, it will be included in the price of the recent X-Fi Titaniums.

Contrary to what happened with ALchemy for Audigy, there seems to be a good reason this time: Creative has to pay royalties to Dolby when making this function accessible for products that were not originally announced with its support. Finally, this is only theory as daniel_k has already put online a method which enables its free access with these cards. We’ll just have to wait and see if this is entirely legal...