Comments on: Auzentech HDMI X-Tension sound card for the HTPC builder in you http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 09 May 2012 02:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Aaron http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-40874 Aaron Mon, 05 May 2008 07:24:39 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-40874 This card is not rubbish the way that it works it that, you have two hdmi ports on the card one for the input of video and the other is for sending out the audio and video both together.

On pricing I called them up inquiring and they said around $100 the release price

Hope this help to anyone

]]> By: Jerko McGillicutty http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-39637 Jerko McGillicutty Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:22:02 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-39637 [quote comment="39116"]As you see in the HDMI X-Tension image, only SPDIF IN is provided for sound input. Does this mean that this is not capable of merging Blu-ray sound (24/96) to VGA card’s Bluray Video ? Then this card is useless…[/quote]
What you seem to be missing is that this is a card that connects to the mobo via a PCI-E 1x bus. It gets the HD audio signals in their full glory through that. As someone else mentioned above, it also has two HDMI ports–one in, one out. You run the HDMI out from your vidcard into the HDMI in on this card. The card then muxes the HDMI video signal with the HD audio signals and outputs it all via the HDMI out port.

Until vidcard companies start incorporating full HDMI 1.3 capabilities on their cards (something I’m not particularly counting on for a while, since audio is clearly not ATI or NVidia’s strong points), this solution (or others like it) will be the only way to get full HD audio via HDMI out of a HTPC.

]]> By: David http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-39116 David Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:57:38 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-39116 Blu-ray sound is 24bit / 96khz which is beyond that of SPDIF (Optical or Coaxial) 16~24/48khz bandwidth. As you see in the HDMI X-Tension image, only SPDIF IN is provided for sound input. Does this mean that this is not capable of merging Blu-ray sound (24/96) to VGA card’s Bluray Video ? Then this card is useless…

]]> By: Erik http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-39032 Erik Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:38:45 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-39032 There are two HMDI ports on this thing with the top one being an HDMI IN. I imagine that you would route the HDMI video from your GPU to this HDMI IN and then output the combined video/audio via the HDMI OUT to your TV or Receiver.

]]> By: Gregor http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-37145 Gregor Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:57:39 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-37145 New amps route the sound and vision through via hdmi, so in that case you *would* only want a solitary hdmi cable from the pc.

]]> By: James Allan Brady http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-36374 James Allan Brady Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:16:54 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-36374 yeah, but chances are if you’ve spent the dough to make an HTPC, and you have an HDTV with HDMI input, you also have a surround sound system to go with all of it that sounds a far shot better than the speakers attached to the TV, so you only put the video into the TV, thats it, then you put the audio into the surround sound system

]]> By: Francois http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-36353 Francois Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:03:33 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-36353 But don’t you get TV/LCD/Plasma’s with a single HDMI connection for Audio & Sound?

]]> By: James Allan Brady http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-36341 James Allan Brady Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:18:21 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-36341 thats a fairly good question, but i am not entirely sure you’d want to combine the two

you’d have the video signals coming from your video card and going into your TV or other video output source, and then you’d have this going into your surround sound system

two separate direct connections going directly to where they need to instead of having to feed it into your TV and then into your surround sound or into your surround sound and then into your TV.

]]> By: Orclev http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136/#comment-36331 Orclev Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:42:38 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/auzentech-hdmi-x-tension-sound-card-for-the-htpc-builder-in-you-0710136.php#comment-36331 Ok, so if you have this, and presumably a graphics card with HDMI output, how do you combine the video and audio HDMI signals? Would the graphics cards output get channeled through this thing, or vice versa?

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