Hello all,
Thanks in advance for your words of wisdom and help.
I was thinking about purchasing a new BluRay player when I was reminded by my wife that my year-old Dell XPS420 (32-Bit Vista) has a BluRay drive stock installed. It has this along with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (that apparently has no connector for an SPDIF cable to run from my non-stock Audigy 2ZS card I installed from my old box).
So, I was trying to find a way, for under $200.00 (or so), to purchase a new video card so I can run a single HDMI cable to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver.
I consider myself pretty technical, but I simply do not trust that I can make a super informed decision based on my own limited understanding of how the signals are passed to the receiver, and through to my Mistubishi-46131 TV and speakers, from my PC.
As far as I can tell, ATI cards have a built-in audio processor that should allow me to pass audio and video to my receiver (and thus, TV) with a single cable, using something like Power DVD DX for BluRay (installed stock).
My main concern is that I want to be sure that I'm not going to spend ~$200 for a worse experience than shelling out $250 for a BluRay Player.
I was considering buying the following card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125237
If I purchase this card, and run a single HDMI cable from it in my Dell XPS420 to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver's HDMI input, will I get full BluRay resolution and full 5.1 Dolby surround? In a perfect world, I'd like the replacement card to be at least as good as the 8800 GT in there now, so I can play PC games on my TV as well. I'm just lost here and can't pull the trigger without running it by you all first.
It's much appreciated.
Thanks,
'Jubs
Thanks in advance for your words of wisdom and help.
I was thinking about purchasing a new BluRay player when I was reminded by my wife that my year-old Dell XPS420 (32-Bit Vista) has a BluRay drive stock installed. It has this along with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (that apparently has no connector for an SPDIF cable to run from my non-stock Audigy 2ZS card I installed from my old box).
So, I was trying to find a way, for under $200.00 (or so), to purchase a new video card so I can run a single HDMI cable to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver.
I consider myself pretty technical, but I simply do not trust that I can make a super informed decision based on my own limited understanding of how the signals are passed to the receiver, and through to my Mistubishi-46131 TV and speakers, from my PC.
As far as I can tell, ATI cards have a built-in audio processor that should allow me to pass audio and video to my receiver (and thus, TV) with a single cable, using something like Power DVD DX for BluRay (installed stock).
My main concern is that I want to be sure that I'm not going to spend ~$200 for a worse experience than shelling out $250 for a BluRay Player.
I was considering buying the following card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125237
If I purchase this card, and run a single HDMI cable from it in my Dell XPS420 to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver's HDMI input, will I get full BluRay resolution and full 5.1 Dolby surround? In a perfect world, I'd like the replacement card to be at least as good as the 8800 GT in there now, so I can play PC games on my TV as well. I'm just lost here and can't pull the trigger without running it by you all first.
It's much appreciated.
Thanks,
'Jubs
