ATI 8500 DV vs the Personal Cinema at The Tech Report

[Adul]

Why don't they have a AIW card with 128 MB of ram that runs at the stock speeds. anywho.
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NVIDIA ANNOUNCED THE Personal Cinema last year, and a lot of people let out a sigh of relief. Finally, some capable competition for the integrated digital video graphics crown had arrived. Up until the Personal Cinema's launch, there really wasn't a competent competitor for ATI's All-In-Wonder series of graphics cards (well, unless you count Matrox). These cards were based off various Radeon cores. They integrated TV tuners for couch potatoes and a slew of video input and output ports for video editing, and NVIDIA didn't have anything even close.

But ATI has a head start several years long. ATI has a pretty good product in the DV graphics card arena, their Radeon 8500DV. NVIDIA, on the other hand, still has its inaugural Personal Cinema in Visiontek's Xtasy Everything 5594. Though both target roughly the same audiences, the cards and philosophies behind them couldn't be more different. Can NVIDIA match ATI's All-In-Wonder experience with its first shot at the market? Let's find out.

 

[Athlon4all]

Actually Adul, ATi has a 128MB AIW at stock 8500 speeds, its called the AIW 8500 128MB. It does tho lack among other things a Firewire port.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: Athlon4all
Actually Adul, ATi has a 128MB AIW at stock 8500 speeds, its called the AIW 8500 128MB. It does tho lack among other things a Firewire port.

Yes, they do. The main difference between the two, other than the memory and speeds, is the tuner module. The original 64mb 8500DV used a digital tuner, while on the newer 128mb 8500 AIW, they have gone back to the analog Philips tuner that is on the AIW 7500.