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    Dell Studio / XPS HDMI Port - passes audio as well ?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by marcuslai, Jul 13, 2008.

  1. marcuslai

    marcuslai Notebook Geek

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    I'm thinking of buying either one of the 15" models and will be connecting it to a LCD TV full time. Does the HDMI port on either of these machines pass audio as well as video ?
     
    marcuslai, Jul 13, 2008
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  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    I do not believe it does, however you can run a cable from the headphone out jack to the tv to get the sound.
     
    nizzy1115, Jul 13, 2008
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  3. marcuslai

    marcuslai Notebook Geek

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    then this means if i watch blu-rays (or even dvds), i will be limited to stereo sound output ?? ... that's not very impressive. oh well ...
     
    marcuslai, Jul 13, 2008
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    Bauer418 Notebook Evangelist

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    YES. HDMI does pass audio on these computers. It passes AFAIK, it passes digital 5.1 channel audio (not sure about 7.1)
     
    Bauer418, Jul 13, 2008
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Yes, HDMI does digital video and AUDIO. Thats the beauty of it over older interfaces
     
    flipfire, Jul 13, 2008
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  6. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    For the XPS series it does. No reason to believe it would be disabled on the studio...
     
    sesshomaru, Jul 14, 2008
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    richierich Notebook Consultant

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    Yes that's what HDMI is for, for both Audio and video. It works great on my M1530.
     
    richierich, Jul 14, 2008
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    epik_x Newbie

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    As stated above HDMI does both video and audio. However to use the HDMI out for audio you have to change the audio output setting to HDMI in your media player.
     
    epik_x, Jul 14, 2008
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