Vista - ATI Sapphire 4850 1GB HDMI

Hi All,
I re-start a much debated topic - no audio via HDMI to TV...
i have a Windows Vista/32, and m2n-e Asus mobo (with integrated audio 7.1 in it)
as i plugged the VC and installed the 9.9 catalyst drivers i noticed in device manager that there are unrecognized devices (2). i'm not sure why the auto detect hardware option of the catalyst installer does not detect the on-board audio of the VC and does not install the HD audio driver . I tried to install it manually but (being not an expert) all AA01, AAxx (do not know what are these for but i tried them all) do not want to start.
Still video is ok it is only the audio that does not got through the hdmi port. for me the main reason is the ATI HD audio driver does not install.
as soon as i see it installed and active i know that i should visit the playback devices and set the hdmi one as default.

if anyone has confronted this kind of issue please share your experience.

thanks and cheers.

It is my (?mis-) understanding that the ATI card can pass the HDMI audio
signal if you have the appropriate drivers installed for your video codec,
e.g. a fully licensed Blu-ray software package. The useless crud Blu-ray
player that comes with most drives will only pass the video signal out the
HDMI port on the ATI card, and not very well at that. You have to connect
stereo out cables from your computer to your television--why bother with
Blu-ray if you are not going to also use surround sound?
As it is sort of pointless to watch HD video programming on anything other
than a large screen HD television, there is little more than imaginary
difference between a DVD and a Blu-ray disc viewed on a computer monitor,
Blu-ray software for computers is not really worth purchasing IMHO. Most of
the reviews of these software packages I have seen conclude that the
programs too often do not work properly outputting to an HDTV over HDMI
because of unresolvable DRM issues that are not supposed to exist.
Finally the price of stand-alone Blu-ray players to connect to HD
televisions is coming down to real world price points and they are far more
convenient to use than a computer based system.

Thanks for the advise.
I just got annoyed that there are unrecognized devices in device manager and also that I have the option for audio output (from the VC) and cannot use it .

Cheers!

"nomore" <fac_187@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:5EA05DE3-E271-4013-A354-556FF534F818@newsgroupThe HD Audio device should still be detected, regardless. Windows even
installed generic drivers for mine. It should be possible to use HDMI for
both audio and video when using your TV as a monitor. I se no mention of
BluRay in the original post.
There's something wrong with your eyes, my friend. A 24" widescreen monitor
runs at a native resolution of 1920x1200, more than enough to show all 1080
lines of a 1080p video. Smaller monitors will downscale this resulting in
an equally crisp image. Even Vista's lowest resolution of 800x600 should be
make a much better job of 720 or 1080 than the fuzzy results you get by
upscaling 480 SD content too far.

That said, I do agree that unless your computer monitor takes up half your
living room wall you're hardly going to get the cinematic experience. The
OP didn't mention a computer monitor, though. He/she did mention a TV in
the first line.

"nCage" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message
news:42983935951034f35b02181b8a73cf94@newsgroup-gateway.com...Google ATI HDMI DRIVER and what do you find...

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...?&lang=English