[mythtv-users] ASUS DigiMatrix - ideal Myth Box?

Jason Schloer schloer.jason at tangoinc.com
Fri Oct 10 13:44:08 EDT 2003


Here's a link to the manual in pdf:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/Barebone/DiGiMatrix/Manual/e1426_digimatr
ix_ab-v10.zip

Should hopefully answer your questions. I think I let my excitement get
the best of me. I did jump the gun a bit. The price is higher than I'd
like, plus the odds of getting even half the features working in linux
any time soon are slim. That and I read in one place that the only HDTV
resolutions it supported were 1080i, 720i, and 525i, which seems really
odd to me. I'd definitely prefer any other resolution, progressive. I'll
definitely keep my eye on this thing though. 

Jason Schloer


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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ASUS DigiMatrix - ideal Myth Box?

On Friday 10 October 2003 03:51 pm, Jason Schloer wrote:
> More info. 
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mmedia/display/20030909020224.html
> 
> Looks pretty good. The HDTV port is listed with the S-Video port. Not
> sure how that will work. Why oh why did they have to go and put the
> spdif port on the front behind the front panel. I'm hoping that what
> they have listed as the FM radio antenna is actually a coaxial digital
> connector which is what it looks like. I'd hate to have o leave the
> front open all the time just to get digital sound. Other than that it
> looks awesome. They have a nice display, comes with a remote all kinds
> of nice features and gigabit Ethernet for streaming all that HDTV
> goodness. Could be an excellent frontend. 

Here's the question of the day, though:  what kind of tuner does it
have?  
Googling around, a saw a passing reference to a 'low-profile PCI riser
for a 
proprietary tuner'.  So what's the story?  Is it a low-profile riser
card 
that allows (horizontal) full-height PCI cards?  Or is it a riser card
that 
allows only low-profile PCI cards?  And what is the tuner that it comes
with?  
I can't find any serious specs on this thing at all, other than listing
the 
external ports.

-JAC

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