HDMi Port on Asus Motherboard

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MacDude123

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Topic # 29548 11-Jan-2009 09:15

My Dad has recently bought a new Asus Desktop computer. I had a look at it and I saw so much.
It Has:
-An HDMi Port (WOW)
-Firewire
-Heaps of USB 2.0 ports.
-8.1 Channel surround sound audio ports

Yet he wanted to give up Windows Vista Premium OS for Windows XP Home SP3 2002 Edition.
Oh My Gosh!

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Reply # 188723 11-Jan-2009 09:29

Not quite sure what you are trying to point out.

HDMI ports have been fairly common on mid to high end motherboards for ~2 yeras now.

MacDude123

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Reply # 188726 11-Jan-2009 09:40

He He He.
Oh well. Just pointin it out.
I like HDMI. Very high quality.
How could an HDMi enabled device such as a DVD Recorder be viewed on Windows XP.

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Reply # 188752 11-Jan-2009 11:32

MacDude123: He He He.
Oh well. Just pointin it out.
I like HDMI. Very high quality.
How could an HDMi enabled device such as a DVD Recorder be viewed on Windows XP.

It can't. The HDMI on the computer is for output only, not input.

MacDude123

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Reply # 188819 11-Jan-2009 17:11

There is 2 ports. one that says in and one says out.
LAY OFF MAN

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Reply # 189189 13-Jan-2009 13:02

MacDude123: There is 2 ports. one that says in and one says out.
LAY OFF MAN

He wasnt trying to "lay into you" its true most computers only have a HDMI output port especially if its onboard HDMI.

What model motherboard (or otherwise computer) are you using? Does it come with some sort of TV tuner card perhaps? thats the only way I can think of having a HDMI input on a pc.

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Reply # 189195 13-Jan-2009 13:20

Id be interested to know what board as well, but does sound like there'd be some sort of encoder in the system to support an HDMI input. Be handy for various video work :)

Had a very quick Google but cant find any Asus boards with anything like it....

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Reply # 189229 13-Jan-2009 15:03

Asus do have a soundcard that takes HDMI input, adds sound, and then puts it out through another HDMI port. An interesting way of doing things, I wonder if this Asus PC has such a card installed and so perhaps it's not the motherboard supplying the port?

MacDude123

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Reply # 190413 18-Jan-2009 18:42

Its not on the motherboard.
the motherboard has 1 output but there is an addon with the 2 ports