COMING THIS SPRING: HDTV Wonder Separately or Bundled With Selected All-In-Wonders

[New Question]

COMING THIS SPRING: HDTV Wonder Separately or Bundled With Selected
All-In-Wonders
http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2004/4732.html

It appears that the HDTV Wonder is a separate daughter card to the AiW. Or,
will HDTV be integrated with the new AiW this spring? Or, both?

 

[J. Clarke]

COMING THIS SPRING: HDTV Wonder Separately or Bundled With Selected
All-In-Wonders
http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2004/4732.html

It appears that the HDTV Wonder is a separate daughter card to the AiW.
Or,
will HDTV be integrated with the new AiW this spring? Or, both?

According to the press release it's not a daughter card or integrated, it's
a PCI card like the other TV Wonders. It's been discussed already at some
length. Conceptually it's very much like the Dvico Fusion except with an
ATI chip instead of the Conexant chips that Dvico uses.

 

[T Shadow]

I would assume its a PCI card. Radeon AIWs that do PIP require a TV-Wonder
for the second tuner.

I'd like to see some system requirements for being able to PVR HDTV.

 

[J. Clarke]

I would assume its a PCI card. Radeon AIWs that do PIP require a TV-Wonder
for the second tuner.

I'd like to see some system requirements for being able to PVR HDTV.

Should be about the same as the Dvico board--P3-750 with DxVA VGA (Radeon,
nVidia MX400, nVidia FX) or P4-1.6 and DDR266 RAM without DxVA.

 

[New Question]

According to the press release it's not a daughter card or integrated, it's
a PCI card like the other TV Wonders. It's been discussed already at some
length. Conceptually it's very much like the Dvico Fusion except with an
ATI chip instead of the Conexant chips that Dvico uses.

I was assuming that a PCI card that works with an AGP card could be
considered a "daughter" card, but that assumption appears to be technically
incorrect. Where has the HDTV Wonder been discussed at length, I have yet
to find the discussion?

 

[Fockker]

I would assume its a PCI card. Radeon AIWs that do PIP require a TV-Wonder
for the second tuner.

I'd like to see some system requirements for being able to PVR HDTV.

I was very excited about this card initially....however, it may not be
everything I had hoped for. No place in any release do I see any
reference to COMPONENT IN or DVI IN...it seems it is an OVER THE AIR
only tuner, that makes it about useless. What good is a PC HDTV card
if it cant be interfaced with your cable or satalite....NONE.

 

[T Shadow]

Should be about the same as the Dvico board--P3-750 with DxVA VGA (Radeon,
nVidia MX400, nVidia FX) or P4-1.6 and DDR266 RAM without DxVA.

The specs seem to refer to viewing and capturing at the same time. PVR (time
delay) means capturing(wriring to HD) and reading (from HD)/viewing at the
same time. This is very HD intensive. Doubt that DMA66 would cut it. Good to
see that the FPU can take some of the load off the CPU.

 

[J. Clarke]

I was very excited about this card initially....however, it may not be
everything I had hoped for. No place in any release do I see any
reference to COMPONENT IN or DVI IN...it seems it is an OVER THE AIR
only tuner, that makes it about useless. What good is a PC HDTV card
if it cant be interfaced with your cable or satalite....NONE.

Personally I find the Dvico Fusion to be quite useful--if the ATI does the
same thing and cleans up the Dvico's problems with multipath then it's
quite worthwhile.