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Surround Sound from laptop
I have a new Samsung R480 laptop and I'm trying to hook it up to my Sony STR-DH510 receiver via hdmi for surround sound. When I go through device manager, my receiver pops up. I can configure it to 5.1, which is what my receiver runs. If I test the speakers, I get each individual speaker to play its bell tone when its supposed to. So I go back to the device and click on properties. Then I click on supported formats and it shows 8 maximum channels and DTS Audio and Dolby Digital as encoded formats. But when I open iTunes and play, I only get left and right audio. When I plug my 3.5mm to rca adaptor in to the headphones jack, I get left right and subwoofer. I know iTunes may not be capable of splitting tracks recorded only in stereo into true surround, but I would like to at least get sound through all my speakers. Is my issue iTunes or some system setting? Thanks all.