Sorry medyo delayed ang reply, been quite busy since Monday. Anyways here are the updates on the CinemaTube/ Realtek 1073 chip.
• We’ve tested the Cinematube on a MAC formatted Hard drive (HFS) and its working well
• Have tested External Dvd Rom to play dvd movies and it worked well
• Have tested ISO (dvd) file and its playing well (the menus are displayed)
• Have tested the reliability of making a playlist, working well, no issue on that
• Cinematube is now compatible with Windows 7
Now for the 2 issues
• Can this player bitstream HD audio Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA via HDMI so that my AVR can decode it?
--> Dolby TrueHD, Yes! if you set the audio output to “raw” then CinemaTube bitstreams Dolby TrueHD to AVR.
--->DTS-MA (7.1 CH), Partially! if you set the audio output to “raw” then CinemaTube bitstreams DTS (6.1 CH) to AVR. So here's the tricky part: even if you set the output to “raw”, CinemaTube downmixs 7.1 to 6.1 to AVR.
( these are the ones tested by our US counterpart, but we will still test it here to confirm)
• With regards to the “Handshake” problem of the HDMI
We have tested this a few times. Now, there is no issue with regards to the audio and video being in sync. Lagi naman siya sabay. The problem that we encountered is “sometimes” when you forward/rewind the media and resume it, the audio will disappear. To fix the audio you need to do some silly thing like change the setup of the audio and then change it back to the original (courtesy of sir Streetsmart). Now this seems to be a problem with all Realtek 1073 chipsets, we have contacted the manufacturer and they will update us on when they can release a firmware on this one. Will keep you posted on this people.
Hope this helps