louco73 Posted October 29, 2007 Posted October 29, 2007 I was just looking at Price Japan to show someone how it works and low and behold I found the IODATA BRD-SH6B. http://pricejapan.com/front/e_good_info.php?code=477&category=13 The specs are located here: http://www.iodata.jp/prod/storage/blu-ray/2007/brd-h6/index.htm Price: SGD$840 delivered to your door! No time to find out how this works with Vista and getting all the sound and video out through one HDMI cable. I'll Google at lunch, unless someone is kind enough to post a link here, hint hint ;).
petetherock Posted October 29, 2007 Posted October 29, 2007 Hi I saw this too, not sure if this link will help you: http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=56021 Cheers
Knight_Rider Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 This link will help you more. Apart from tearing a few hair overall result is not bad. ;D http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=773218 My buffalo should be in next month at below $600 http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/bhc-6316fbs/
Knight_Rider Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 No time to find out how this works with Vista and getting all the sound and video out through one HDMI cable. I'll Google at lunch, unless someone is kind enough to post a link here, hint hint ;). Is there a HDMI sound card that let HD DD and DTS passthrough??? If yes please post a link.
louco73 Posted October 30, 2007 Author Posted October 30, 2007 Is there a HDMI sound card that let HD DD and DTS passthrough??? If yes please post a link. It looks like there is no secure path in a PC for HD audio, therefore all audio gets down sampled at the moment. This also means no HDMI for audio. Read this :( http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10/08/powerdvd_ultra_audio_downsampling_explained/1 This link will help you more. Apart from tearing a few hair overall result is not bad. ;D http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=773218 That is the longest thread I think I've ever seen, well over 100 pages now! It seems all this stupid digital media protection is just making the software and hardware overly complex, increasing prices for consumers, decreasing functionality, introducing incompatibilities (bugs) and generally killing off HTPC as a viable solution for HD IMHO. I was really looking forward to getting this drive, but the more I read the more it seems I should wait to see how the combo players perform before finally giving up on my "HTPC for everything" goal.
Knight_Rider Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 It looks like there is no secure path in a PC for HD audio, therefore all audio gets down sampled at the moment. This also means no HDMI for audio. Read this :( http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10/08/powerdvd_ultra_audio_downsampling_explained/1 Yeah I posted that link in HWZ so until X-Fi Prelude comes wih a HDMI x-tension card, you only can use analog out. Computer display got no deep color and video card also dun support so go slow on the hardware. A bit of discussion here. http://www.xtremeplace.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=48973.0
weibchen Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 actually theres the ATI cards which has onboard sound for the HDMI out.
louco73 Posted November 2, 2007 Author Posted November 2, 2007 actually theres the ATI cards which has onboard sound for the HDMI out. But do they allow pass through of the new sound formats unaltered? I doubt it, as it looks like they would be down sampled. I'll read more over the weekend.
Knight_Rider Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 But do they allow pass through of the new sound formats unaltered? I doubt it, as it looks like they would be down sampled. I'll read more over the weekend. No they don't and I think they are good up to SPDIF spec (cause it's digital outfrom sound card) which means up to DTS-ES . Even analog there's downsampling due to AACS compliance rule. And with DRM we can't even play a legal copy of HD-DVD/BD so what M$ is doing is really pain in the a$$. You an follow the PDVD thread and this audio one. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=892863
Transworld Posted November 7, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 My buffalo should be in next month at below $600 http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/bhc-6316fbs/ Your this thing fierce man,. :o
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