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Author Topic: If your video card has HDMI will it carry sound info to your TV/monitor? [Locked]
Sinlock  2 stars
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I found using HDMI to connect your computer to your monitor/TV often resulted in fuzzy text. I just VGA the sucker in.

 

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ZigmundZag  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
eodoll posted:

Where is the hassle? Its a big convenience ...

Because video goes to the TV and audio goes to the receiver. Combining them does not make anything more convenient for me. Quite the opposite when I need to make sure the HDMI audio is disabled to allow a different audio out to carry the signal.

 

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Kjarhall  3 stars
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Registered: 2002-3-1 15:47:21
ZigmundZag posted:

If your receiver has an HDMI in.

My receiver is about 6 years old now, just when HDMI was becoming the Big New Thing and DRM kept it from working correctly 90% of the time anyhow.

Personally I think HDMI is more of a hassle than it's worth. Yes, you need it for HD video, but carrying the video and audio signal in the same cable just isn't that useful.



HDMI can cut the amount of wiring you need in more than half, and in many cases gives higher quality.

My last receiver had no HDMI either, so i used optical. And then ran out of optical inputs so i used RCA's for the rest. All HDMI has been a huge improvement, even to the opticals, which need a perfect connection (wiring is very fragile and the slightest movement of them can cause a break in connection) to work well.

 

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bstulic  3 stars
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Registered: 2002-7-26 04:55:00
ZigmundZag posted:

eodoll posted:

Where is the hassle? Its a big convenience ...

Because video goes to the TV and audio goes to the receiver. Combining them does not make anything more convenient for me. Quite the opposite when I need to make sure the HDMI audio is disabled to allow a different audio out to carry the signal.



All sources go to receiver, 1 cable per source.
You have 1 more HDMI to connect receiver and TV

I don't see wheres the problem

 

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