ATI Multimedia Center and Vista Ultimate

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I have an ATI x1900 All-in-Wonder card... and was wondering is Vista
Ultimate media center supposed to work with the All-in-Wonder series
off-the-shelf?

Thx,
Kyle
 
Kyle said:
I have an ATI x1900 All-in-Wonder card... and was wondering is Vista Ultimate media
center supposed to work with the All-in-Wonder series off-the-shelf?
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No. Media Center will never work with the All-In-Wonder series.
ATI will have an MMC suite that works with Vista, however.

Tom Lake
 
No. Media Center will never work with the All-In-Wonder series.
ATI will have an MMC suite that works with Vista, however.
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Any ideas if that will be available in old 9600 and 9800 cards? I do
know older Media Centers didn't have support for AIW portions either. :(
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Hi Phillip,

http://ati.amd.com/technology/windowsvista/Products.html

Above is the link for products that will be supported by ATI for the
Vista operating systems.

These will not be supported for Vista:

ATI All-in-Wonder® 9800 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder® 9700 Series
ATI All-in-Wonder® 9600 Series


By clicking on Desktop, Multimedia, Chipset, Mobile and Workstation, you
can learn which products will be supported.
 
Nobody has said either way whether all in wonders will not be supported, the display driver is available under catalyst 7.1, which does not include tuner or capture drivers. Catalyst has not stated when these will be available or if they are working on a version of MMC (multimedia center)for Vista. If they release just the driver support, then yes the media center tuner and capture portions will work properly. A Radeon driver is a Radeon driver Ther are literally thousands of Radeon All in Wonders out there. Its just a waiting game.

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don't hold your breath

after submitting a support ticket on this very issue, ATI has stated, more
or less, that they don't intend to support "legacy" cards, which just
happens to include my new AIW 2006 PCI-E that is only a couple months old,
and still on store shelves. how convenient.

bottom line is they want you to buy a new card.
they've had the same 5 years as all other vendors to supply Vista drivers -
if they haven't already, they probably won't.

why should they care, they already have our money.
 
Nobody has said either way whether all in wonders will not be supported, the display driver is available under catalyst 7.1, which does not include tuner or capture drivers. Catalyst has not stated when these will be available or if they are working on a version of MMC (multimedia center)for Vista. If they release just the driver support, then yes the media center tuner and capture portions will work properly. A Radeon driver is a Radeon driver Ther are literally thousands of Radeon All in Wonders out there. Its just a waiting game.
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Others have commented on the driver situation but don't forget that MS
have implied that they will not support software encoding capture
cards, which the AIW cards are (presumably, I haven't kept up with the
latest ones). It's a shame as they are nice cards, I used one here
until I switched to MCE.

As you say, once you have a Vista driver, the existing MMC will
probably work too so you should be able to continue using it, just not
via the Media Center interface.
 
I believe that ATI has decided not to support the capture/tuner portion of
the AIW cards. This link indicates their schedule for Catalyst Media Center
and capture drivers for their tuner cards. AIW is mentioned only in the
context of "there is no application" to make the tuners work. They didn't
put AIW on the schedule.

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

Click on "TV Tuner / Remote Support"
Click on "737-25633: TV Tuner Support for Windows Vista"

In layman's terms, I think we're screwed.


Bill
Proud Owner of new X1800 AIW card
 
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