TV time shifting with an ATI AIW 8500 card

[Inspirer]

I a few questions for people with experience:

a. does TV time shifting with an ATI AIW 8500 card really works ?

b. will it work with a 900MHz Celeron ?

c. can you tell the difference between different resolutions when capturing or time shifting a regular TV signal ?

 

[rbV5]

a. It does on my rig (AIW 7500 and AIW 8500 have the same multimedia feature set btw)
b. It should, but timeshifting is pretty demanding, the rest of your components will come into play.
c. Definately.

 

[Inspirer]

thanks a lot, very helpful.

could you or anyone else, be more specific about the other components that make a difference?

I'm considering an upgrade but I'd perfer to refrain from a complete overhaul.
I'm leaning toards an expesive graphics board that will serve me well in my next system which is roughly a year away,
but I need to have advanced TV options to justify the cost.

 

[LouPoir]

Works great om my AIW8500. Make sure you have lots of disk space.

 

[Crankydog]

Maybe you could look into buying a seperate TV capture card with advanced features instead of an AIW card.

Since TV-capture technology doesn't move as fast as 3D graphics, when you change video cards, you won't need to pay for the extra TV capturing that was already working fine on the old one.