HDMI rears its head on X1600

[Steve]

Graphics card manufacturer Sapphire has announced that it will be previewing a version of ATI's Radeon X1600 Pro with HDMI at CEBIT.

Before we cover the implications of this, does everybody know what HDMI is? We hear a few no's there... HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface. You might consider it a successor of DVI, as it supports uncompressed high resolution video signals along with about a million (well, eight) audio channels. It is intended as a means of linking together multimedia devices such as high definition televisions, monitors and srubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishy sound systems.

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[herulach]

Will it also do audio? I know its probably not a lot of use for most people with serious HTPC setups, as theyll prob have a seperate decoder, but ive seen a few with a hdmi passthrough.

[Stoo]

More to the point, will ATI release a driver that will allow proper 1:1 pixel mapping on most of today's modern HDTV sets? (1366*768)

DVI->HDMI on my X1900XT is distinctly fuzzy

VGA->VGA is better, but still not brilliant..

[ca197]

Does your TV not have a native mode where it displays the input signal at its native res (1280x720 I presume in this case)? My friends projector does this. Ok so you may have to put up with a bit of a black border but surely thats ok. If not then I'm sure I read that you can force 1366x768 res out of a radeon card (try ATI tray Tool).

[Steve]

Will it also do audio? I know its probably not a lot of use for most people with serious HTPC setups, as theyll prob have a seperate decoder, but ive seen a few with a hdmi passthrough.

There'll be two versions, one with external SPDIF and one with an internal connection to allow audio to be carried over the card's HDMI connection.

[herulach]

There'll be two versions, one with external SPDIF and one with an internal connection to allow audio to be carried over the card's HDMI connection.

Safe, i was expecting a resounding no to that.should read the press release as well as the article eh?