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

[Jason Schloer]

There is. The pdf shows a (very small) picture of it. Looks like it may
even do audio out based on one of the pictures they had. My big gripe is
the lack of digital audio output on the back. I'm also very curious
about the odd resolutions they had listed for HDTV.

Jason Schloer


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ASUS DigiMatrix - ideal Myth Box?

On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 05:20 US/Pacific, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> 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.

Given that the only PCI TV tuner I'm aware of Asus shipping is a 
Conexant cx2388x-based one, I'd wager a guess it is the same chipset as 
that card. On the bright side, I'm in contact with someone who just 
recently was able to get a solid picture and change channels on his 
Asus TV card w/that chipset, using the cx88 driver, but he still has no 
audio...

I have another question... How exactly does a S-Video/HDTV output work? 
That doesn't look like any HDTV outputs I've ever seen... I presume 
there must be an external dongle of some sort.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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