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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Tech Support Fort - Questions, Comments and Codecs (READ THE OP!)
 
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wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

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So Hauppage replaced my broken HDPVR with a new HDPVR2 Gaming Edition. Sweet!

Except it only outputs in HDMI, and my only HDMI device is a monitor with no speakers attached.

So now I have two options:
  • Use a y-splitter for the audio like these. I'm not sure what kind of quality loss that'd give.
  • See if I can do something with the "sound bar" audio output on my Dell u2410. I have no idea what the deal with that is, Dell claims you should only use it with the Dell Soundbar but gently caress that, I have perfectly good speakers already.
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Mush Man posted:

I use these. The only problem I've had is that some receiving devices (not the HDPVR2) may find the signal too weak and drop scanlines or the entire signal. I've yet to get a new TV, but using my setup with composite video before I switched to component when I got my HDPVR2 worked well.

Scanlines=video? I'm not sure why I'd need to split video, supposedly the HDPVR2 has a no-delay HDMI converter.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Tech Support Fort - Questions, Comments and Codecs (READ THE OP!)