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    Asus M50 or M51 and Dolby Digital or DTS via HDMI

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by pk4, Sep 11, 2008.

  1. pk4

    pk4 Newbie

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    Hi there,

    I am considering buying a new laptop - my candidates are Asus M50 or M51.
    My main goal is to connect it to home theater and I am interested whether it is possible to activate Dolby Digital or DTS output via HDMI. I read about this subject on HP forums, but I wanted to be sure, that it is also possible to activate it also on the ASUS notebooks.

    If it is possible, does it depend also on type of graphic card (ATI or NVidia)?

    Any advice or experience is welcome.

    Thank you.
     
    pk4, Sep 11, 2008
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  2. lilskaterpunk

    lilskaterpunk Notebook Consultant

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    Im also wondering the same question?

    Thx
     
    lilskaterpunk, Sep 16, 2008
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  3. pk4

    pk4 Newbie

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    So far I managed to find out the following:

    1, Only M50 series notebooks have a "Dolby Theater" sticker on their body.
    Strangely, in specification PDF of M51 series, it's written "Dolby Home Theatre certification", but no sticker on notebook's body. Quite confusing :-(

    2, Both M50 and M51 series are equipped with either NVidia or ATI graphics.
    Recently I noticed that ATI cards might have problem with HDMI sound output (audio is lost when TV channel is switched on TV and then return to HDMI input) - it's quite annoying. I am not aware of such problems with NVidia so far.
     
    pk4, Sep 17, 2008
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    lilskaterpunk Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the info. Im still shooting for the M50Vm-A1, hopefully can order one this week :)

    +Rep
     
    lilskaterpunk, Sep 17, 2008
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    Will1989 Notebook Geek

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    How is that confusing? It's a sticker.... :rolleyes:

    Quite similarly, my M50 specs states that it has a Core 2 Duo processor but no sticker signifying that. Should I be confused?
     
    Will1989, Sep 17, 2008
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    Hi Will1989,

    I think that the Dolby sticker is a sticker which producer would like to show on his product. That's why if I see it on M50 and not on M51, I start to doubt about M51 certification.

    E.g.
    M50 description:
    http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=74&l3=616&l4=0&model=2107&modelmenu=1
    explicitly tells about Dolby implementation.

    But in M51 description:
    http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=74&l3=604&l4=0&model=2337&modelmenu=1
    there is no mention about Dolby.

    Even more strange, on dolby.com there is no mention even about M50:
    http://www.dolby.com/consumer/pc/pcee/partners.html#asus

    There is also a lot of confusion around available input/output ports and it's better to see the notebook by ene's own eyes.
     
    pk4, Sep 17, 2008
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