DVI to HDMI adapter

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: DVI to HDMI adapter

DVI cables do not carry sound at all. If you have been told this, you have been lied to. It does not exist. Alternatives (for carrying audio) include SPDIF, 3.5 to RCA, and god-tier super prox XLR. To my knowledge, there is no special voodoo adapter cable that allows you to connect a 3.5mm and DVI to a single HDMI cable. Would be nice.

Are you joking me here, YOU CAN PASS SPDIF SOUND THROUGH DVI CONNECTIONS ON MOST ATI AND NVIDIA CARDS.
There are SPDIF connectors on most modern graphics cards for that reason exactly! As wizard says DVI is the same as HDMI butwithout the sound so its perfectly possible for the graphics card to inject the sound into the signal. Im not lying at all and i would appreciate you get your facts right and do some research before start accusing people. Iv done it myself and it works fine as have many many others, try googling it Here is some evidence
What do u think that little booklet and cable next to it are all about? Appaently you need to use the DVI-HDMI adaptor like the one you can see next to the driver disk.

When would an XLR ever be using in a home entertainment environment? Alternatives would be RCA or a connecor for digital interface such as coax or optical.

Absolutely anything is better than S-Video. Anything. But if you lack an HDTV, then it's fine. Otherwise, if you don't have a DVI/HDMI port, use a VGA to Component cable/adapter. Remember that analog signals will always be analog (VGA, S-Video, Component) and digital will always be digital (DVI, HDMI, that-one-thing-I-don't-remember). The only workaround is to either buy a new video card or use that strangely priced analog-digital signal converter.

I wouldnt pick it out but seein as you seem to think you know so much your totally wrong. S-Video is YC connector which is seperate connection for both the luminance and chrominance (esentially a componant within a cable) which gives a lot more total bandwidth than regular composite (single coax) which sends everything down a single cable so not ANYTHING is better than Svideo. Componants isnt necissarily analogue, you can have digital componant signals. An analogue to digitalsignal converter is called a line scanner and would end up costing more than a new GFX card if you wanted to use anything higher than 640 x 480.

Jeez my uni course is designing TV studios and im damned good at it i wish ppl wud listen to me once in a while :/

[Andrew[XI]]

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DVI cables do not carry sound at all. If you have been told this, you have been lied to. It does not exist.

That is totally wrong i have my regular TV (Dish Network) running a DVI from the box and HDMI into the back of the TV (DVI ---> HDMI cable,and yes it is an HD box) so DVI can transfer sound as long as it is setup right... as biscuit has said...

[[USAC]S|Cpl.TinFoil]

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DVI can carry HDMI. Your information is now obsolete because some gracious person decided to include audio in the DVI stream.

Hallelujah peanut butter. I was not informed of this new achievement in technology. All of the video cards I currently own do not support this, so you can see where I'm coming from. (Latest is a 8800GT. You have a 9600, so...)

When would an XLR ever be using in a home entertainment environment?
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I wouldnt pick it out but seein as you seem to think you know so much your totally wrong. S-Video is YC connector which is seperate connection for both the luminance and chrominance (esentially a componant within a cable) which gives a lot more total bandwidth than regular composite (single coax) which sends everything down a single cable so not ANYTHING is better than Svideo. Componants isnt necissarily analogue, you can have digital componant signals. An analogue to digitalsignal converter is called a line scanner and would end up costing more than a new GFX card if you wanted to use anything higher than 640 x 480.

1. Hence why I called XLR god tier super prox. Not practical.
2. I have never seen a well-educated user, in terms of home theater/media PC systems, where one would even attempt using coax to pipe stuff from a computer to a TV. Again, I was speaking in practical terms and how he's using it.
3. I didn't know that DVI could connect to Component (and supported anything other than analogue signals, although that was stupid of me) until I just looked it up. I'll have to go and buy that now since I have 30ft of space between my HD-capable computer and the TV. (I've been using an Emachines that can barely play h264 at 720p and cannot use deblocking to save its life. No DXVA, since it's an old, old card.)

[Wizrdwarts]

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First of all, B1scu1T, you spelled my name wrong, just like everyone else on the forums. :p

DVI cables may or may not be able to carry sound, but the cards can through the DVI port when used with an adapter. Probably using the spare pins or something.

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

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First of all, B1scu1T, you spelled my name wrong, just like everyone else on the forums. :p

Sorry dude... Most people call me Biscuit or B1scu1t so i know how u feel :p. Its B1scu1T or Bicci... (or Paul/Buzz)

I have never seen a well-educated user, in terms of home theater/media PC systems, where one would even attempt using coax to pipe stuff from a computer to a TV. Again, I was speaking in practical terms and how he's using it.

Well aside from the fact that coax is standard for wiring up any cable or SAT to a decoder or PCI-TV card and obviously back in the day, the television itself... You mean in the same way XLR wouldnt be used? FYI XLR doesnt offer any real quality improvements over jack or RCA, its the ruggardness and stability of the interface and the ability to pass power down the cable (IE phantom power) which is what makes it so widespread in live and studio enviroments.

[Rambo]

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Use a dvi to hdmi cable and buy a ten dollar audio cable for your motherboard to tv

it is what i just brought for my lcd tv

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[*]I have never seen a well-educated user, in terms of home theater/media PC systems, where one would even attempt using coax to pipe stuff from a computer to a TV. Again, I was speaking in practical terms and how he's using it.

What's wrong with running digital coax? My X-Fi has both coax and optical, my receiver has both, too. But I had trouble finding an optical cable over 6ft long. Coax and left/right RCA are easier to find and run.
I would have thought that digital coax would be better than stereo RCA, right?
So in the absence of an optical cable, what is so nasty about coax?