Asus HDTV Suite-HDMI turns your monitor into a TV

We've certainly seen our share of devices to bring your computer and TV together, but the HDTV Suite-HDMI from Asus brings it back the other way, providing a TV tuner and a variety of TV-oriented inputs for your computer monitor. The box accepts a host of inputs from HDMI to coax, converts, finesses and upscales the signal up to 1080p, and outputs over DVI or VGA, turning your old display into a viable television. The multiple inputs and TV tuner support PIP, and there's also a bundled remote to control the on-screen menus, completing the TV makeover. Sadly, there's no word on price, but PAL and NTSC support hints that we might see this box hit our fair shores -- looks like it's time for a monitor upgrade, eh?

[Via PCLaunches]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 4:58PM]

So obious questions.

Does the HDMI input still output the HD resolutions over VGA or DVI? If so, how did they get around the HDCP restrictions?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 20th 2008 4:56PM]

Good questions indeed. Also how does it handle audio over hdmi? Is there a headphone output? How does it audio connect to a separate receiver or speakers.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 5:12PM]

This would be nice. Unfortunately, they tend to price them in the mid $200. Hopefully they'll come out with a reasonable price.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 5:44PM]

Give this to me for

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 6:29PM]

I would hope they'd have an ATSC tuner (preferably HD!) if they're going to sell it in the US...I guess NTSC would still be usable for cable TV.

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2008 1:59PM]

This looks promising, but I am afraid that it is going to be way too expensive when compared to hybrid LCD monitors that have HDMI ports. I want to use the ASUS HDTV Suite-HDMI on my CRT monitors.