Xcard Questions ???

[Marzen]

Wohoo! Xmas came early today at work. I got new lcd monitors (no bezels :cry: ) with mounting arms, digital speakers and finally a replacement for my sigma designs Xcard (which I promptly installed this time). Here's my questions on the Xcard:
1) Can you output your desktop to an hdtv via YPbPr? I can only get movie files/dvd's to out thru the Xcard media player.
2) The 16:9 and 4:3 buttons seem reversed?
3) Video glitches during dvd playback (w/ 1.8G AMD, 220M ram, Win2K).
4) Can you get around the 480P limit on copy right material?
5) I can't get DD out to my digital speakers, PCM works ok, as does DD via my dvd standalone player. Note: same coax cable, same speakers. When set to DD audio out I get a ticking noise from the Xmagic card. There is no date on the drivers that were installed, and I only found one driver on the website.
Bad stream, or could it be something else?

Thanks,
Ward

[JonMarsh]

To the best of my knowledge, all the Xcard supports is outputing the decoded DVD- no desktop support.

Try AnyDVD to get around the copyright limitation- should work. Does with other systems like MyHD cards with scaled DVD playback.

Don't know if it supports DD passthrough. They have to pay a license fee to support DD in the drivers, and may have chosen not to.

~Jon

[Marzen]

Don't know if it supports DD passthrough. They have to pay a license fee to support DD in the drivers, and may have chosen not to.
~Jon

Hmm, the box states DD and DTS compatible. Perhaps they have answered my email by now. I don't think I'll be buying one for home use just because of the output being limited to their media player.