Support for the latest in multimedia interfaces, HDMI, is slowly growing. From the graphics card market, ATI-based cards seem to be the ones we hear about the most, with GeCube today announcing their HDMI X1300 and X1600 products.
The two cards, elegantly named GC-HD13PLG2-D3 for the X1300 and GC-HD16PLPG2-D3 for the X1600, have VGA, S-Video and HDMI outputs. The HDMI output can be converted to DVI, should it be required.
HDMI can also carry eight channels of digital audio, and audio support is something GeCube is pushing, suggesting that HDMI helps do away with a mess of cables. However, they haven't said quite how the graphics card plans on transmitting audio. An earlier release from Sapphire, though, said that an external SPDIF or internal cable would be used for their cards, so we're guessing it's the same story for GeCube.
There's no mention of HDCP, the DRM implementation which can be used with HDMI, either. Still, we see no reason for it to not support it, if others based on the same GPU do. For those of you interested in what the X1600 HDMI from GeCube might look like, here's a piccy:
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HEXUS.pr :: GeCube's press release.
