AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs

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• Qfromchicago - Friday, November 27, 2009 - link

  Windows 7 Profession
  Onkyo 805
  Diamond 5870
  Still no 3rd option for hd audio.
  
  Has anyone been able to work this thing

• charme - Friday, November 27, 2009 - link

  same here.
  no 3rd option for hd audio

• otni - Sunday, November 29, 2009 - link

  YES, WORKING PERFECT FOR ME...TRY THIS: PLAY THE BLUE-RAY MOVIE THEN GO TO SETTING ON POWERDVD AND CHARGES TO THE 3ER OPTION FOR HD SOUND.
  IS WORKING FOR ME, THANKS CYBERLINK

• FlyTexas - Saturday, November 14, 2009 - link

  What good does it do to launch this, if there are still none for sale a month later?
  
  Yes, I know there were a few sold up front, but NewEgg has been out for awhile...

• RavnosCC - Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - link

  The 57xx series are readily available, they also support HD Audio.

• RavnosCC - Monday, November 23, 2009 - link

  "As of today, new PowerDVD 9 Ultra customers will receive build 2320, which includes support for HDMI bitstreaming of undecoded (full quality) audio with ATI Radeon 5000 series graphics cards, and the Auzentech X-Fi Hometheater HD sound card. An update patch for current owners of PowerDVD 9 Ultra is scheduled to be available next Friday (11/27).
  
  Tom
  Cyberlink"
  

• Qfromchicago - Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - link

  Though happy that finally we will get hd audio using powerdvd, but why limit it to new customers only. It seems to me that if you can offer it to new customers, you should be able to offer it to everyone at the same time.

• Qfromchicago - Sunday, October 18, 2009 - link

  I have win 7, a diamond 5870, powerdvd 9 ultra version 2201 and still I don't get he 3rd choice for the HD audio bitstreaming. Has anyone been able to get bitstreaming to work with powerdvd 9. Thanks

• RavnosCC - Thursday, November 5, 2009 - link

  UPDATE: Looks like late November for the mythical patch...
  
  "Hi everyone,
  Yes... we read these forums regularly. Feedback is forwarded to the appropriate people. These forums aren't the best way for us to provide customer support, so if you have an issue, please open a support ticket through our website.
  
  We can't always comment on new developments... or at least we like to wait until we have a definite answer. I know everyone noticed the reviews for the ATI Radeon 5000 series graphics cards, where certain reviewers were using a pre-release version of PowerDVD 9 to demonstrate HDMI bitstreaming of Blu-ray audio. Support for this feature will be in the next PowerDVD update (patch), which will be available later this month. I don't have a firm date on this, but we're trying to expedite it. Please keep in mind that each of our regular updates includes fixes for new BD titles and new (or forthcoming) hardware / drivers across the PC ecosystem, and so the feature you are anxiously waiting for isn't the only thing that we need to include in the update. Of course, each update has to go through a full quality assurance testing procedure, to make sure that none of the changes introduced any new issues.
  
  So... sorry for going quiet on you... but I and others read every post in this thread and other relevant threads, following up as needed (in some cases, directly through private messages on these forums).
  
  Tom
  Cyberlink"

• RavnosCC - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - link

  I am in the same boat, with Vista, I have powerdvd 9 ultra fully patched and still no third option for hi-def passthrough... :-/