AnandTech’s Radeon HD 4850 Preview

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Anandtech’s preview of ATI’s newest Radeon HD 4×00 series confirms what we’ve been hearing all along. The Radeon 4×00 series finally supports proper 8-channel LPCM over HDMI   Bring on the mid-range Radeon HD 4650 version!

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All of AMD’s Radeon HD graphics cards have shipped with their own audio codec, but the Radeon HD 4800 series of cards finally adds support for 8-channel LPCM output over HDMI. This is a huge deal for HTPC enthusiasts because now you can output 8-channel audio over HDMI in a motherboard agnostic solution. We still don’t have support for bitstreaming TrueHD/DTS-HD MA and most likely won’t anytime this year from a GPU alone, but there are some other solutions in the works for 2008.