Archive for July 5th, 2008

Cyberlink, Realtek, Gigabyte fix HD audio problems

It has taken nine months to get to the bottom of this, as we first uncovered the problem where basically every piece of software that can decode HD movies, can’t actually output the HD audio as well. It was simply because the HDCP compliance needs to be maintained between software, hardware and OS, and there was no set specification for the three to adhere to. This meant every sound codec that supported the feature needed a specific driver path for the software that was trying to access this. It’s good to see that this problem has finally been fixed, but we can’t help but feel it’s too little, too late, as I’m sure many of the HD fanatics have already bought a set top box or PlayStation 3 to playback Blu-ray movies. Let us know your thoughts in the forums. .

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