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New member Username: Compupc1Post Number: 1 Registered: Sep-05 | Hello all, Next week Dell will be releasing a new XPS M170 laptop, designed to be a portable media center/gaming machine. Like the model it replaces, it has a DVI port as well as coaxial audio out via a small dongle. I have an HDTV with an HDMI port on it. In looking at adapters out there, it seems as though there are plenty that do DVI-->HDMI conversions, but none handle audio. Why is that? Are there really no adapters or cables that have DVI + digital audio ports on one end, and an HDMI port on the other? If there are, where might I find something like that? Going through the HDMI port is unfortunately the only way I will get digital audio with this laptop; my receiver's digital audio ports are already full. |
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Anonymous | I have heard there is supposed to be one that handles audio (DVI+audio->HDMI) too, but I too have not found it. Did you ever find one? |
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TimG Unregistered guest | Mr. Schwarzmeier: DVI-D does not include audio; it's a video only specification. So any converter from DVI-D only will not include audio. Need a separate audio cable for DVI-D and therefore the converter would need to support a separate audio line. Vid-to-audio synch issues will crop up, however in that type of converter. |
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Joe Dibi Unregistered guest | I too am looking for this elusive cable with no luck. There is no good reason best I can tell that a "Y" type cable that combines DVI with a co-ax digital audio into one HDMI solution doesn't exist. The HDMI cable is carrying the exact same information as a digital audio cable would and a DVI cable would taped together... |
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Anonymous | It seems simple enough; the digital audio signal must not be the same or something? Maybe we should ask someone who would know? FROM http://www.hdmi.org/consumer/faq.asp <snip> What is an HDMI Authorized Testing Center and how do I contact one? The HDMI Founders have established Authorized Testing Centers (ATC) where licensed manufacturers can submit their products for compliance testing. Currently, ATCs are located at Matsushita Electric Industrial in Osaka, Japan, Philips Semiconductors in France, and Silicon Image in Sunnyvale, CA, USA. The ATC's can be contacted as follows Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd Format Verification Laboratory 1-15, Matsuo-cho. Kadoma city, Osaka, 571-8504, Japan Fax: +81-6-6909-5027 Attn: Asaichi Akagi Email: fvl-info@ml.jp.panasonic.com Philips Semiconductors HDMI ATC Manager 2, rue de la Girafe B.P. 5120 14079 Caen Cedex 5 France Email: hdmi-atc@philips.com Silicon Image, Inc. HDMI Authorized Testing Center Location: Sunnyvale, CA USA Attn: ATC Director Email: hdmi-atc@siliconimage.com </snip> |
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Anonymous | It seems simple enough; the digital audio signal must not be the same or something? Maybe we should ask someone who would know? FROM http://www.hdmi.org/consumer/faq.asp <snip> What is an HDMI Authorized Testing Center and how do I contact one? The HDMI Founders have established Authorized Testing Centers (ATC) where licensed manufacturers can submit their products for compliance testing. Currently, ATCs are located at Matsushita Electric Industrial in Osaka, Japan, Philips Semiconductors in France, and Silicon Image in Sunnyvale, CA, USA. The ATC's can be contacted as follows Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd Format Verification Laboratory 1-15, Matsuo-cho. Kadoma city, Osaka, 571-8504, Japan Fax: +81-6-6909-5027 Attn: Asaichi Akagi Email: fvl-info@ml.jp.panasonic.com Philips Semiconductors HDMI ATC Manager 2, rue de la Girafe B.P. 5120 14079 Caen Cedex 5 France Email: hdmi-atc@philips.com Silicon Image, Inc. HDMI Authorized Testing Center Location: Sunnyvale, CA USA Attn: ATC Director Email: hdmi-atc@siliconimage.com </snip> |