MSI Unveils 5 HDMI Cards

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I didn't see anything mentioned about sound from the card til the end and it just a blurb. Does the card have sound or does it have a pass through from your own sound card? If it comes with it's own sound card, who built it?
 
Is this really news worthy? DVI has become the standard for cards, and HDMI and DVI are electrically the same, so anyone that needs HDMI just needs to invest in a cheap adapter, and that's only if you didn't get an adapter with that card. I have quite a few of them myself.

But then again, quite a few cards nowadays have HDMI anyway. I quick search on newegg will yield quite a few results.
 
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The story is news worthy because of the specialized 1080p processing card, not the hdmi output. 1080p video is usually encoded in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, which is very resource intensive to decode. Usually this requires a fast cpu, but there are also solutions involving gpu software (e.g. nvidia purevideo) or specialized hardware, such as these msi cards.
 
MSI makes good graphic cards, what's interesting about these is that besides the ATI gpu they also have high quality electronics in them.
 
[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]Is this really news worthy? DVI has become the standard for cards, and HDMI and DVI are electrically the same, so anyone that needs HDMI just needs to invest in a cheap adapter, and that's only if you didn't get an adapter with that card. I have quite a few of them myself.But then again, quite a few cards nowadays have HDMI anyway. I quick search on newegg will yield quite a few results.[/citation]

While I agree that 5 HDMI cards aren't big news, it is newsworthy I guess. There are quite a few HDMI cards that will do this.

Also while DVI has been the current standard I love having HDMI for my computer. Being able to quickly hook up to a TV without scaling issues (damn componet cables) and still get audio is nice to have.
 
[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]Is this really news worthy? DVI has become the standard for cards, and HDMI and DVI are electrically the same, so anyone that needs HDMI just needs to invest in a cheap adapter, and that's only if you didn't get an adapter with that card. I have quite a few of them myself.But then again, quite a few cards nowadays have HDMI anyway. I quick search on newegg will yield quite a few results.[/citation]

The big issue about hdmi videocards, is the ability to carry AUDIO AND PICTURE in one cable. When you use an adapter you are only carrying one signal, picture. Also, the cards provide a big plus in video acceleration, as mkv4life has stated.
 
The big issue about hdmi videocards, is the ability to carry AUDIO AND PICTURE in one cable. When you use an adapter you are only carrying one signal, picture. Also, the cards provide a big plus in video acceleration, as mkv4life has stated
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False. My current HTCP uses a dvi-hdmi converter on 790GX mb. I get audio through the HDMI cable (it goes to my reciever). Now this is card/mb dependant, not universal mind you.
 
[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]I didn't see anything mentioned about sound from the card til the end and it just a blurb. Does the card have sound or does it have a pass through from your own sound card? If it comes with it's own sound card, who built it?[/citation]

I just installed one of MSI's GTX 260 cards the other day. It has an HDMI converter on it (DVI to HDMI). The card has a SPDIF connector on it, and comes with the cable to attach it to your motherboard.

In this case, the video card uses your motherboard's on board sound and simply transfers it through.

Link to MSI's site for the card mentioned in the article:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=R4650-D1G&class=vga

They indicate the card comes with a DVI to HDMI adapter. Although, the image they display for the card is NOT the same as what Tom's has posted here. The one on MSI's site does NOT show an HDMI plugin. Where as the image Tom's displays has a native HDMI plugin.

Looks like MSI doesn't have their newest card on their site yet perhaps...
 
[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]Is this really news worthy? DVI has become the standard for cards, and HDMI and DVI are electrically the same, so anyone that needs HDMI just needs to invest in a cheap adapter, and that's only if you didn't get an adapter with that card. I have quite a few of them myself.But then again, quite a few cards nowadays have HDMI anyway. I quick search on newegg will yield quite a few results.[/citation]
They are not electrically the same. They are compatible, there's a difference. DVI is for sound only. Some video cards have a special DVI adapter that will allow sound from the cards DVI output to an HDMI input, but there aren't any monitors or TVs that will accept sound from their DVI input, hence they're not the same. Also, the news-worthyness of this article is not the part about the cards having HDMI, despite the headline, but rather the cards being designed specifically for use in HTPCs.
 
The Schnoz, your are a dumb a**. DVI is for video only, not sound and your statement "but there aren't any monitors or TVs that will accept sound from their DVI input," How the do you plan on getting sound from a input now? You might want to reword your whole post. People like you think they know it all and post a bunch of crap for everyone to read.

Oh and one more thing, older HDTV do have a DVI port on the back that is a video input only.
 
[citation][nom]scarpa[/nom]MSI makes good graphic cards, what's interesting about these is that besides the ATI gpu they also have high quality electronics in them.[/citation]
+1. The reduced noise may play a role in very high end HTPCs with high end audio equipment or with Audio production PCs.
 
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