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audio over HDMI?

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Jorrell

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I've been looking around trying to find an indication if any of the current LCD monitors support playing audio over the HDMI cable? It looks like some of them have HDMI and speakers, but I can't determine if they'll decode and play the audio coming over the HDMI cable. Of course most LCD TVs will, but I'm trying to find a monitor because I want the higher resolution.

Does anyone have a monitor with integrated speakers that plays audio over an HDMI cable?

Thanks in advance!
 
Hope you're looking at 30" LCD monitors, then, because most 24" and 26" LCDs have little or no resolution advantage over a 1080p TV.

...why would you care if you have to run another cable for audio, though? And why would you limit yourself to integrated speakers, for that matter? They're usually trash.
 
I think with PC's there's a bit of a mismatch. HDMI carries high quality audio, whereas the speakers integrated into LCD's are relatively poor quality. Unless I'm mistaken, I don't beleive monitors would passthru audio to external speakers.
 
I know the EIZO HD2441W can route HDMI audio, but it's not worth the trouble to find a monitor that can handle HDMI audio. Just output the audio separately.
 
silent-circuit said:
Hope you're looking at 30" LCD monitors, then, because most 24" and 26" LCDs have little or no resolution advantage over a 1080p TV.

...why would you care if you have to run another cable for audio, though? And why would you limit yourself to integrated speakers, for that matter? They're usually trash.
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Thanks guys. I guess I didn't explain the purpose. It is needed for testing of some software that will specifically use HDMI. Since it's only for testing it's not important whether the speakers are very good, so long as they can play the sound coming over an HDMI cable.

I'd rather use monitors because on a per-size basis they have a higher resolution than an LCD-TV. They're going to be used as monitors not TVs anyway. For instance at the range I'm looking, a 22"-23" TV typically has a resolution of 1366x768, whereas a 22" monitor does 1680x1050. That's 68% more pixels in the monitor than the tv. Searching newegg for a TV with screen size 20-29" and a recommended 1080p resolution I get no results.

ToastyX said:
I know the EIZO HD2441W can route HDMI audio, but it's not worth the trouble to find a monitor that can handle HDMI audio. Just output the audio separately.
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Do you know if there is a way (such as a splitter) to split the audio and video on an HDMI cable to send the audio to a receiver/speaker setup and the video to a monitor.
 
Jorrell said:
Do you know if there is a way (such as a splitter) to split the audio and video on an HDMI cable to send the audio to a receiver/speaker setup and the video to a monitor.
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Hmmm.....you're thinking about this backwards. What is normally done, is to feed the HDMI signal from it's source, to a home theater receiver, which plays the audio on the speakers connected to it and passes the HDMI video on to a monitor/tv via another hdmi cable.

O.O.
 
Jorrell said:
Do you know if there is a way (such as a splitter) to split the audio and video on an HDMI cable to send the audio to a receiver/speaker setup and the video to a monitor.
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The LG 24 has an optical out for that purpose, does 1080p yadda yadda. Not my #1 choice of 24's but it does serve some needs.
 
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