PowerColor X1600 PRO HDMI – Connecting PC to HDTV & Home Theatre

***Zardon*** · Jul 21, 2006, 03:55 AM

Source: Press release
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Taipei, Taiwan – July 20, 2006 – Tul Corporation, provider of industry-leading graphic cards, announce the availability of PowerColor X1600 Pro HDMI supporting HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection); experiencing the latest High Definition (HD) video standards at 1080p quality is now a reality.

PowerColor X1600 Pro HDMI comes as a low-profile PCI Express card, running at 500MHz (core) and 900 MHz (memory)of 256MB DDR3. It includes connectors for HDMI, VGA and s/dif so that audio signals can be delivered with video signals through the HDMI connector. Being CrossFireTM ready, the X1600 Pro HDMI can be used in combination with other X1600 cards for multi-gpu systems. It also supports Shader Model 3, DirectX 9.0 and ATI’s AVIVO technology.

“PowerColor X1600 Pro HDMI is great for anyone building a media PC as it leaves them worry-free for future hardware upgrades.” says Ted Chen, CEO of Tul Corporation. “The card is extremely versatile as it’s an excellent choice for playing today’s latest games.”

Brutality · Jul 21, 2006, 04:35 AM

Wohoo....At last

Btw, Zardon, your sig pwns

Shakey_Jake33 · Jul 21, 2006, 12:00 PM

Am curious about this - how actually does the sound get fed to the card? Does the card have to connect to the sound card, or does the card basically act as a sound card also (making it some sort of dual card)?

The latter would probably be the only way you could send a HDCP-compliant sound signal through (required for passing DD TrueHD and DTS-HD through the HDMI). If not, you'd just be passing standard DD/DTS through, which might be nice if you wanna make use of the HDMI input on your amp, but not really any better than a digital connection on a sound card.

Would be interested in how this does it!

Judas · Jul 21, 2006, 12:40 PM

as far as i know.. it doesn't pass sound at all.. and can't..

now if they can produce a standard in which a sound card (any sound device) can connect to a video card with HDMI and have a HDMI compliant sound processing, that's another story.

Shakey_Jake33 · Jul 21, 2006, 02:29 PM

Initial post mentioned that it could pass the audio through the HDMI connectors, that's all.

Is it possible to run HDCP-encrypted sound from the sound card to the GPU and keep it HDCP-compliant? I'm not sure it is (and TrueHD/DTS-HD can only be sent along HDCP-encrypted signals).

I reckon this simply allows you to pass the digital sound output from the sound card to the GPU and simply pass it through the HDMI connection... which is nice, but not really any better than just using optical/coaxial.

Judas · Jul 21, 2006, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shakey_Jake33

Initial post mentioned that it could pass the audio through the HDMI connectors, that's all.

Is it possible to run HDCP-encrypted sound from the sound card to the GPU and keep it HDCP-compliant? I'm not sure it is (and TrueHD/DTS-HD can only be sent along HDCP-encrypted signals).

I reckon this simply allows you to pass the digital sound output from the sound card to the GPU and simply pass it through the HDMI connection... which is nice, but not really any better than just using optical/coaxial.

the idea is to simplify and elleaviate extra and unneed cables and bloat hardware.

IMO, i'd love to be able to connect everything with a single cable.

But i'll wait for Yamaha to make a completley HDMI made amp.

HDMI in for a pile of devices, and one HDMI out to a single tv.