Video cards with HDMI interface?

[SuperSix]

Are there and PC compatible video cards with an HDMI plug in the back? All I see are cards with SVideo > HDTV outputs (Component RGB), but none with native HDMI connectors.

HELP!!

 

[Vegito]

because its a video card not a video/audio card.. hdmi carries audio and data also.. so unless your video card is going to be integrated with your hdmi speakers.. you wont see it for a while or at all..

http://www.anandtech.com/multimedia/showdoc.aspx?i=2321&p=1

 

[Continuity27]

HDMI would be pointless used this way as I understand it.

HDMI is simply DVI-D (Already present on video cards for video transfer) + HDCP (Content protection for HDTV, useless for video card > monitor connection) and audio signals (which video cards don't deal with anyways).

DVI-D is still all you need or can use from a dedicated video card.

HDTV cable/etc into an HDTV tuner card is where you'd want HDMI, not going out from a dedicated video card to a monitor.

 

[jose]

I know there are some DVI to hdmi converter plugs. These are used on a upscaling 1080i dvd player to a regular dvi monitor.. They cost about $35.

check avsforum for info.

 

[Continuity27]

Yeah HDMI can be converted to DVI-D with no video signal loss, if you're coming from a device that outputs it's video over HDMI. If you had an HDTV cable box for example, and it had HDMI, component, S-Video, and Composite video outputs, the best solution for a monitor would be HDMI/DVI/VGA coming off the HDMI port through the use of converters. Component comes next in quality. S-Video and composite come next in that order but can't display HD signals anyways... avoid. Use HDMI over DVI-D, DVI-D over VGA etc, depending on what your monitor/TV had as inputs.

 

[SuperSix]

Thanks for the replies - interesting stuff!

 

[Capitalist]

I run a DVI-D -> HDMI converter from my HDTV Cable box to my Sony TV. You still have to run a regular RCA for audio unless you have a HDMI to HDMI link.

Now that I look at this, I am not sure this post adds anything to the discussionm, but someone may find it useful.