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

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 10 October 2003 06:37 pm, Jason Schloer wrote:
> 
> 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-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:23 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> 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


Please stop top-posting... it's starting to make me dizzy.

-JAC