ATI's TV WONDER ELITE (TV capture card)

[mcveigh]

at zipzoomfly
$85.00

first time i've seen the new capture card. it's supposed to be the best analog quality capture.
i'm waiting for the reviews first but it's a lot cheaper than I thought it's be.

new thread in video here

lets close this bad boy down and move it to video!

 

[MIDIman]

I've been trying to find a decent review of this product - just saw some preliminary stuff someplace like hexus.

If anyone finds one please post a link. I'm sure they'll popping up all over the place soon.

 

[musicman64]

I'm seriously considering this...

but I can't find any reviews either :/

 

[kindest]

no hdtv?

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: kindest
no hdtv?

hdtv....get the ati hdtv wonder, fusion3, or MY HD120 (130 out soon)

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: mcveigh

Originally posted by: kindest
no hdtv?

hdtv....get the ati hdtv wonder, fusion3, or MY HD120 (130 out soon)

my hd120 is expensiveeeeee. ive been looking to get one of those 3.. for a decent price.

 

[sxr7171]

Does anyone if Dscaler works with this? Though I think probably not.....

 

[musicman64]

Not sure on the dscaler, however I went ahead and ordered since my pvr-150mce has a screwed up mounting bracket.

Sure reviews will be out by the time I get it, but if anyone has specific questions after tues/wed ask.

 

[Gibson486]

Features:

* Theater? 550 PRO core
* MPEG-2 video encode support
* MPEG Audio Encoder with sampling rates of up to 48khz
* Dolby Digital 2 channel encoding
* Programmable filters
* NTSC/PAL
* Motion adaptive 3D Comb Filtering
* FM Radio
* World-Wide Audio Decoder
* 16MB DDR memory controller

This will be far from the best analog quality.....

Get something that encodes in MJPEG.....

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: mcveigh

Originally posted by: kindest
no hdtv?

hdtv....get the ati hdtv wonder, fusion3, or MY HD120 (130 out soon)

It's a bit deceptive since the description on zipzoomfly keep saying "High Definition"..

 

[MIDIman]

Here's the short review I saw on Hexus.

The most interesting feature to me is the real-time clean-up of video input.

 

[ngvepforever2]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
Features:

* Theater? 550 PRO core
* MPEG-2 video encode support
* MPEG Audio Encoder with sampling rates of up to 48khz
* Dolby Digital 2 channel encoding
* Programmable filters
* NTSC/PAL
* Motion adaptive 3D Comb Filtering
* FM Radio
* World-Wide Audio Decoder
* 16MB DDR memory controller

This will be far from the best analog quality.....

Get something that encodes in MJPEG.....

Wrong, the Theater 550 PRO chip has hardware mpeg 2 encoding and best of all it has got a 12-bit Video decoder. This is sure to be one of the best Tv Tuners yet. Probably even Better than my poor Hauppage 250MCE

 

[Chadder007]

So it makes the TV signal when viewed and captured look as good as digital TV I guess?....interesting...

 

[satiger]

So, is it PCI or PCI Express version..........?

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[musicman64]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
So it makes the TV signal when viewed and captured look as good as digital TV I guess?....interesting...

Nah, it'll most likely just be the best analog quality you can get from a tv card. The Hauppage cards are 10 bit vs this being 12 and the filter.

It's PCI and PCI-E, however the one for sale at newegg and zipzoomfly are PCI versions, could'nt find the PCI-E for sale yet.

 

[RossMAN]

So is this better than the Hauppauge PVR250?

I want a TV card mostly for PVR purposes and I have analog cable.

 

[HyTekJosh]

I might get this as I am looking to buy another Ultrasharp 19" which would require me to get a dual DVI video card and ditch my ATI AIW.

 

[Dragonbate]

I hope they do a better job with the drivers for this card. I have one of the those ATI tv-wonder pci cards that has been retired to the junk box as the drivers never worked with any stability for me.

 

[cw42]

how does the quality of this compare to say a Leadtek Winfast TV2000?

 

[mcveigh]

Rossman, on paper this should be one of if not the best analog capture cards out there.
I'm waiting for the reviews. I have a pvr-250 right now and am very happy with the quality in sage TV using the Dscaler5 codec (free too!) and/or NVDVD with ffdshow. I feel it's about as close to regular TVon my SDTV set as possible. Maybe if I had a HDTV it would look better.

anyways I'm waiting for some reviews, I wish Anand would get his hands on one!

 

[V00D00]

Originally posted by: satiger
So, is it PCI or PCI Express version..........?

This is PCI. I got really excited when I saw it because I thought it was the PCIe version. I'm pretty sure it's not though.

 

[lookin4dlz]

Not much out there since this is a new card.
http://www.gamingnexus.com/Preview.asp?ID=240

http://www.nextgenelectronics.com/ces2005final.php

 

[satiger]

Thanks for the reply.

I ordered one and will post the result once I installed in the machine.

 

[wicktron]

i ordered one. needed a tuner card anyway.

 

[ron2368]

If I have old vhs tapes can I input them into this card with the standard old rca input plugs. I want to make dvds off of the vhs content, is this a product that will do it? thanks