I saw a DVI to HDMI cable recently. It makes me wonder....

If my PC is DVI and my HDTV is HDMI port, can I use this cable to connect each other?

Of the other way round? How about the sound?

Anyone have tried this before?



If i play HD movies from my PC and connect using normal serial connection to my HDTV, will there be any loss in PQ?
How about connection to the sound system? using headphone jack?

I am planning to buy a low profile tower casing PC to store all my music and movies. Connect to the HDTV and play it.
It is something like HTPC.



Any advise?

can coneect, audio elek nia

For your info, if you VGA only support DVI output, it doesn't support the sound as available in HDMI. You need to get a VGA which supports HDMI output, most ATI VGA supports that feature, or you may get ASUS 8600GT HDMI 256MB/DDR3 model for budget Nvidia card.

If you are using serial connection to TV to play HD movies from PC, for sure you will suffer some losses in PQ. It's better that you go for a low profile PC just to play music/HD movies in your HDTV, just budget RM1k will do as I already help my customer to set up 2 sets of similar PC

Hope this will help and you may PM me if you need any further info

hmmm when i connect my pc to my lcdtv...my pc can detect sharp HDMI but cant display any picture....set resolution to 480p, 720p oso cant c any picture...any1 can help me?!

im using dvi to hdmi

This post has been edited by marky: Feb 27 2008, 03:55 PM

u select the correct hdmi? have to wait awhile also

yeap chose correct hdmi...

is there diff if i use dual link or single link dvi cable?

You need to set the VGA output resolution to match your TV resolution, else no picture will be displayed

7600GT got SPDIF In, but my graphic card only got 1 S-Video & 2 DVI output.
Does DVI to HDMI carries audio if I connect my sound card SPDIF out into graphic card?
Anyone tried before?

DVI cannot carry audio.

DVI could be either DVI-I or DVI-D.

looking at this now may turn my current rig into a multimedia player...uhm...

else get a popcorn and aztech netwrok homeplug

This post has been edited by iman_210: May 22 2008, 10:13 AM

Ya, interested to know whether it works o not. Currently i'm using 9600GT (dual DVI + one SPDIF in/out).

My setup is:
Video = using DVI-VGA converter or DVI-HDMI converter to connect to my LCD (which only have VGA or HDMI possible for PC).
Audio = using normal black & red cable to connect to 2.1 Home Theater.

Now thinking to buy a Home Theater system which has Optical input so that i can connect my sound from sound card to Home theater's optical.

Question: if i buy a graphica card with HDMI (eg: ATI HD2600 Pro), will the HDMI capable to carry sound also? or still must use SPDIF for sound?

i duno any graphic card does AUDIO out via HDMI

i wanto find also ...interesting

Certain Sapphire ATI display cards carry audio via HDMI. You can check the specs on the box. I remembered clearly the HD2600XT model has this feature.

tumpang thread..
now im currently using acer L3600 connect to my lcd with normal vga cable. but the resolution cannot go up to 1920 1080(1080p).my tv does support 1080p.

theres DVI port behind my rig so i wonder if i use the dvi to hdmi cable, will it support the higher res? (1920*1080)

well u can try
ur teebee native 1080p display or accept 1080p signal

it does have 1080p support from HDMI. doesnt seems to support VGA cable in HD tho. wat i concern is does it work if i use the HDMI input by coverting my DVI connection on my pc via conversion cable.

my HDMI to DVI cable works on my LCD monitor to graphic card and its 5 meter long as well . looks to me there's no PQ loss

I also wanna to buy a PC to setup HT....Nowadays....many movie can downloaded...it will be easy to have PC for game and as DVD for movie

Please tell me what PC Setup is availabe and where can I get the best deal?

My budget below 3K....slightly above might be consider also

This is my graphic card

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA/Pr...?ProductID=2282

Can it carry the audio?

Nope. Your graphics card doesn't have any Audio In Input , hence its not possible. You must understand that this whole concept of joining audio and video together started with 8 Series for Nvidia and 2xxx series for ATI. Older cards don't support it

Aww...shucks. So i'm stuck with my PC speaker then.

i using hdmi to hdmi from my 5850,why the sound go out from my lcd?why its not from my speaker?

Recently, I bought a DVI to HDMI adapter so I can connect HDMI equiped DVD player to older Samsung 17" LCD monitor via DVI. Result? NO picture at LCD. I wonder why.
(this was an experiment, not entirely to view movies on the LCD)