7900GTX and audio

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MrEd

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Bare with me while I ask a couple ignorant questions. The difference between HDMI and DVI is that HDMI carries audio and DVI doesn't right ? So say I have a 37" Westy 1080P on the wall in my bedroom, 25' away from it beside the bed I have a comp with a 7900GTX card in it, if I run a DVI cable from the card to the LCD, when I play a DVD on the comp I won't have any audio will I ? The Westy has DVI inputs as well as HDMI, but since my card only has DVI out, even if I get a DVI to HDMI cable I still won't get any audio right ?
 
No, it won't. The video card won't output the audio along the HDMI.
 
Dang, I was afraid of that. K thanks djBon2112, guess I'm going to have to figure something else out. :(
 
Just run an 2-cable stereo audio line with it, or a mini jack with stereo. If you havn't run the HDMI yet, you're not in much of a pickle.

Plus, this feature may change in the future, but for now you're stuck with a seperate audio line.
 
See the thing is, I was going to hang some Klipsch ProMedia speakers on the wall by the LCD and drive them with the LCD's audio out, that way, no matter if the wife was in there watching her recorded soap opera crap off of the cable DVR ( I refuse to let her watch it in the living room as it makes me wanna hurl lol ), or watching a good DVD in bed together from the comp, the sound would be great. If I run an audio line from the comp with the DVI cable, then I got to figure out how to interface it at the speakers along with audio coming from either the DVR box or the Westy.
 
MrEd said:
See the thing is, I was going to hang some Klipsch ProMedia speakers on the wall by the LCD and drive them with the LCD's audio out, that way, no matter if the wife was in there watching her recorded soap opera crap off of the cable DVR ( I refuse to let her watch it in the living room as it makes me wanna hurl lol ), or watching a good DVD in bed together from the comp, the sound would be great. If I run an audio line from the comp with the DVI cable, then I got to figure out how to interface it at the speakers along with audio coming from either the DVR box or the Westy.
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Isn't there some sort of DVI+audio to HDMI cable? One end would be HDMI, but the other would be DVI and the proper audio connectors to grab sound from your compy or other source?
 
Well that would be cool, I have no idea if they make such a thing. I'm going to have to go google that and see what I can find.
 
Well all I can find is something like this, not exactly what I had in mind but it might be my only option I guess. I need to take a closer look at the DVR box and the TV to see how else I might be able to do it.
 
MrEd said:
Well all I can find is something like this, not exactly what I had in mind but it might be my only option I guess. I need to take a closer look at the DVR box and the TV to see how else I might be able to do it.
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There's no good reason that should be THAT expensive! HDMI is DVI with audio in a different casing.
 
I agree, I was kinda shocked when I saw how much they wanted for that little thing. I think I'll figure out something else just on principle :D
 
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