CeBIT 2008 Day 2 - OCZ's Mind Controllable Mouse, ASUS' HDMI Sound Card, Intel and more
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 5, 2008 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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ASUS Sound Card Outputs HD Audio Codecs over HDMI
Here's an interesting product from ASUS, it's a HDMI-equipped sound card:
The sound card accepts a HDMI input from your graphics card, then outputs video combined with audio over a second HDMI port. The benefit of this approach is that you can enable passthrough of high definition codecs such as Dolby TrueHD, although it is a somewhat clumsy way of doing it. We would much prefer for the GPU to properly handle it in the first place but we'll have to wait for a while for that to happen.
ASUS will release the Xonar HDAV in late Q2 of this year.
Continuing on its HDMI kick, ASUS also demonstrated a PCIe x1 card that could accept a DVI input and output it as HDMI:
ASUS does some video processing and upscaling on the signal for 1080p output over HDMI.
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AmberClad - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
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DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
Thanks for the info. Gotta say those cases are F'GLY though.DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
Found this one too, but it's VERY expensive -DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
Dammit - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...cjsketchy - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
Pandas everywhere are cursing this latest 'innovation' from Asus... what a waste of effort. Never understood why anyone would want to enclose a computer in such a poor conductor of heat.7Enigma - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
Uh, and plastic is so much better?rudy - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
I am interested in the NIA. But my main question is what else can you do with it. To reduce CTS it would be great if you could just type with it. I have never been happy with voice recognition so far and it doesnt work well in an office with other people. But if these products could be made with enough input recognition to at least get the letters numbers and punctuation of the keyboard I would buy it in a hearbeat. Imagine taking notes in class without bothering people with the keys and writing documents and emails quickly and silently.augmentedreality - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link
I just picked an OCZ NIA up.. I know this is an old thread.. I haven't spent hours training it yet but I am anticipating some interesting hacks out soon and maybe some firmware hacks since this is a pretty cheap item now. Anyway, I will review further on my own site as I play with it, you can catch that at http://automatedhome.ca">http://automatedhome.ca and soon at augmenting-reality.com where I intend to try out all these devices to put together a good William Gibson style portable computer complete with Vusix 920AV glasses and some Nvidia or android or Iphone device at the center.. anyway, more to come son on what I can get this toy to do..;)Craig - http://automatedhome - http://augmenting-reality.com
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
Could you please find out if the Asus Xonar HDAV card will output TrueHD and DTS MA bitstream, or only LPCM?strafejumper - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
coool a device that can sense when i move my eyebrows