Asus comming up with HDMI in??

[morikaweb]

I just read a interesting article about a few new products Asus is coming up with. The Most interesting ones are the Xonar AV1 main card, and HDAV-DB1 daughterboard, which will have HDMI in.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36243/118/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/28/a...1-sound-cards/

Anyone else have info on this? Opinions? Is this the Hauppauge HD-PVR killer before that device is even released?

[lobosrul]

Looks to me like this is for outputting sound via HDMI.

And even if it does take video input, how will it bypass HDCP?

[morikaweb]

Originally Posted by lobosrul

Looks to me like this is for outputting sound via HDMI.

And even if it does take video input, how will it bypass HDCP?

The article specifically says that it will enable unmodified video input. As for HDCP, why cant the device simply be HDCP compatible?

[mattdcknsn]

Originally Posted by morikaweb

As for HDCP, why cant the device simply be HDCP compatible?

Because if it is HDCP compatible it wouldn't do us any good. The device could only record non-flagged content which isn't much.

[GKusnick]

The articles make it clear that these are sound cards, not video capture cards. The HDMI input is for digital sound mixing. When it talks about home movie enthusiasts getting a clean digital capture, it's talking about audio capture, not video capture.

[morikaweb]

Originally Posted by mattdcknsn

Because if it is HDCP compatible it wouldn't do us any good. The device could only record non-flagged content which isn't much.

I suppose, there are plenty of ways around HDCP but we cannot talk about them here. Lets just say HDCP support would/does not slow me down in the least.

The articles make it clear that these are sound cards, not video capture cards. The HDMI input is for digital sound mixing. When it talks about home movie enthusiasts getting a clean digital capture, it's talking about audio capture, not video capture.

Hmm, perhaps I miss interpreted . I suppose I just really want a decent digital video input

[morikaweb]

I reread the article and these two parts confuses me:

HDMI-in is going to be a game changer for all high-class computers, since video enthusiasts will be able to capture their home videos using a clean digital input.

In order to get the HDMI capability, Asus put some serious silicon on the board itself: "Splendid HD" no longer is a software feature, but rather supported through a real video processing chip that will mix the sound and audio in order to produce best possible A/V mix.

Now both parts mention VIDEO specifically. I'm not sure where you guys are getting your information that this card supports only Audio?

[mikesm]

It only does audio in from a decode perspective. It will do video passthrough I believe, so you can add multichannel hd audio to a hdmi video card that outputs no audio.