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Creative Japan has some information (only available in Japanese) on different Sound Blaster Live! products, some of which are only available there. If you can read Japanese, do send us a translation.
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The Live!Drive is modified to include an IR receiver, and it is now labeled the Live!Drive IR. Links: Japanese Product Page |
Sound Blaster Live! Digital Audio 2
Links: Japanese Product Page |
2nd Generation Products
There is also a special Sound Blaster Live! Digital Audio edition only available in the Japanese market. |
Brad Butler sends some pictures of the Japanese products packaging from a store called T-Zone in Japan!
Attached is a pic of the digital IO card which is sold separately (included with the pro) to add on to the regular sblive (costs about $93 U.S.) and one of a bin of sblive gamer edition cards that look to be OEM as they are not in a box. There is a sticker on the package that says "SoundBlaster Live Value" in English which confirms my belief that the gamer edition is nothing more than the live value with a new name for the Japanese. The boxed "gamer edition" cards were selling for $110 while the regular sblive was selling for $165. The OEM live value was going for $93.
 SBLive! Gamer Edition OEM Packaging |
 The Optical Digital I/O Card |
Brad Butler sent us this information:
I live in Japan and went to Tokyo today and looked at the new sb bundles. The "digital entertainment" box looks like it has the regular, full sb live card. The "gamers edition" looks like it's basicly a sb live value. They both were pretty expensive as most computer parts in Japan are. They are also selling an optical digital IO card to be used with the sb live that looked simular to the Hoontech card.
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This version has the optical I/O card bundled, as MiniDisc is very prevalent in Japan and people would like to record digitally from the PC to their MiniDisc devices. |
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The yellow break-out box connects to the white connector on the I/O card, providing optical as well as coaxial input and output.
This bundle is pretty cool. A pity they aren't available elsewhere.
Digital Entertainment |
Gamer Edition
Link: Japanese Product Page |
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The Platinum Plus is the latest 5.1 version of the Sound Blaster, with an extra center and LFE output.
This package is scaled down version from the Platinum Plus. It has the same 5.1 Sound Blaster card but does not come with Live!Drive IR and some bundled software. 
The 2nd generation products include the regular 
