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How are ATI tv tuners?

KDOG

Diamond Member
I was looking into getting an Radeon AIW, but I was thinking of just keeping my GF2MX and getting a tv tuner. Are ATI tv tuners ok? I've heard that Hauppage TV tuners are good and Best Buy has them on sale for 39 bucks....
 
The picture on the ATI is better and has a thinner border than the Hauppauge, but the Hauppauge has easier controls.



 
I have the tv wonder...looks great!!

Unlike the radeon all-in-wonder the tv wonder does not have tv on demand or the ability to capture video straight to mpeg2...if that matters to you. You can capture raw avi at different settings or mpeg1...

My only knock on the ati is the buggy software of the multimedia center. Hopefully they have the driver issues fixed with win2k and other things. Some early disk came with older drivers that absolutely would not work correctly and being as they were not downloadable at the time at the ati tech site, people had to write in and order them to be sent out to them...I got lucky and got the newer drivers...no problems to date.


If you are looking in the range of 40-70 buck ATI is probably the best...If you want digital tv capabilities I believe somebody has a card out there. May be epensive though.
 
I experienced that driver problem with my TV Wonder. It works now that ATi has Win2k drivers on the website. Although, it seems to me like the picture quality dropped greatly when I switched from 98se to 2000.
 
I just got the AIW AGP radeon and it looks great, and the capture is really nice, just be sure to enable DMA or you will drop a lot of frames.
 
My ATI TV Wonder VE works just as well as my old STV TV PCI, though I like the ATI software a lot more.
 
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