nvidia's version of all in wonder

[jfyeh]

someone told me that nvidia is making their own version of ati's all in wonder. If so does anyone know release date or specs or where there is more info?
I am actully in the market for a new video card, i was looking at the asus v7100 deluxe but it's only a geforce 2 mx. With all the new hardware coming out i want something better although i can't complain when i have a tnt2 pro now. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< someone told me that nvidia is making their own version of ati's all in wonder. If so does anyone know release date or specs or where there is more info?
I am actully in the market for a new video card, i was looking at the asus v7100 deluxe but it's only a geforce 2 mx. With all the new hardware coming out i want something better although i can't complain when i have a tnt2 pro now. Any other suggestions? Thanks. >>

Yeah. The Radeon 8500DV. nVidia isn't releasing a good DV/VIVO solution for at least some time.

 

[Rand]

nVidia's "All In Wonder" is their Personal Cinema.
VisionTek has a GF2 MX version of the Personal Cinema, and their supposedly working a GF3 varient.
BUT....

Stay away... stay far far away.... don't even consider it. Please forget you ever heard of the Personal Cinema product.

I've had the distinct displeasure of setting up an nVidia Personal Cinema twice and I pray I never need to do so again. Drivers are terrible, features extremely poorly implemented and many don't work very well at all. Is difficult to set up and get running "properly". Product documentation is virtually non-existent.
IMHO it is a very poorly implemented product. Much potential, but the execution was was lacking.

A few other members here have used it and usualy expressed much the same opinion, as have the majority of the reviews on it.

ATi is often hounded for having poor drivers, and nVidia generally has exceptional drivers... but the drivers for the Personal Cinema make ATi's drivers seem flawless in comparison.

 

[AA0]

Get a Radeon 7500 or 8500 All in wonder card, forget nVidia's offer. The features and drivers are awful, and the picture quality of tv on the comp in even worse.

 

[jfyeh]

but i heard that ati still has driver issues. I was considering the new ati line of card but then wanted to get an nvidia chip from all the bad things i heard about it. So now i'm confused both companies have good ideas but bad execution or driver support that work well. I'm not sure i want to get one at all now.

 

[jfyeh]

both cards are pretty simiar, tv tuner, lots of inputs and outputs, remote control, decent gaming card but the personal cineama has dual monitor support which neither the 7500 or the 8500 all in wonder have. I'm having a real hard time between the 7500 all in wonder, and the personal cinema, please post and past experineces.

 

[Narse]

I can tell you right now, if you need the features of tv tuner, video capture, tv on demand, etc... get the ATI its the best solution out there, and it still games vert well.

 

[AmdInside]

You can order several different flavors of the Personal Cinema (Geforce 2, Geforce 3 Ti 500/200 etc.) from here:

ComproUSA Store

I got the MX400 model for my dad. With the latest WDM 1.08 drivers from NVIDIA, I have no problems with the Personal Cinema. Everything works great. There are still people who have problems with WinDVR when use dual processors but my dad had a Pentium 4 so no worries there. It works great in Adobe Premiere 6.0 as well.

I played around with the Radeon 8500. The Compro had more vibrant colors than the Radeon 8500 on my monitor but the Radeon 8500 looked a slight bit sharper than the Compro model. Featurewise, the Radeon 8500DV is better but I had so many problems with the original Radeon AIW that I didn't want to play with it.

 

[AA0]

The AIWs don't have dual monitor support because there is no room for another monitor connector.

The personal cinema uses the base nvidia card, which only the crappy MX has support for dual monitors, so your kinda out of luck. I've never heard of the GF3 or anything other than the MXs coming with a personal cinema... it was something that was supposed to happen, but nvidia never did seem to get it to work.

Driver implementation isn't the only thing here, ATI is way ahead of nvidia in that department, but the other issue is image quality. nvidia's IQ on their personal cinema just plain sucks, the tv is the worst of any tv solutions on the market, as a review has proven.