ASUS demos Xonar HDAV1.3 HDMI Deluxe sound card
by Darren Murph 
posted Dec 16th 2008 at 9:53AM
Filed under: Misc, Other hardware
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JM @ Dec 16th 2008 10:23AM
Unfortunately there is no solution for LPCM via PC. Windows XP/Vista & software down sample everything.
salacious @ Dec 17th 2008 7:18AM
The Xonar card and Arcsoft TMT are PAVP compliant, this means that the need to downsample to 48kHz/16 bit is no required.
JM @ Dec 17th 2008 12:00PM
From my understanding they only do Bitstream. This is the reason why the audio never gets downsampled.
AR @ Dec 16th 2008 12:58PM
Too bad this card was the biggest let down in the history of let downs. No 24p support! What the?
Hopefully, the Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater HD soundcard will deliver. It apparently is now due out the last week of January (which if you believe their PR, "is the world's first native PCI Express soundcard that is fully HDMI v1.3a Compliant, providing non-downsampled audio even during playback of 24p video")