VIVO Card Upgrade

[Immortal1]

Been out of the loop with video cards and I want to upgrade my ATI 64 meg DDR VIVO.
I do very little gaming, but am more concerned with speed and 2D quality.
I'm open to any brand and would like to keep it to around $125
TIA

 

[fishbreath]

ATI make the TV Wonder series. They use the same VIVO chip that appears on the AIW 9700 Pro (Rage Theatre 200) . This is a good chip and provides excellent capture at 720 or 640 by 480 (29.9 fps) without frame drop. The VE version is cheap and fits well inside your budget.

I find the contrast handling on the Rage Theatre 200 is better than the video capture chip on my Gainward 4600 750 Golden Sample.

I'm sure there are plenty of alternate solutions, but at least I can tell you I've got plenty of experience with this card and it works fine for me.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Wait a minute, are you suggesting he'd change a Radeon 7500 for a Radeon VE (7000) ? Isn't that a downgrade?

 

[chsh1ca]

The TV Wonder is a TV Tuner card, and not a video card.

 

[rbV5]

He's talking about the AIW VE, which is a 7500 class AIW PCI card (the TV Wonder cards do not use Rage Theater or Theater 200 chip)

Immortal1, you need to be more specfic as to what your are looking to upgrade about your card. Do you need higher quality inputs? Outputs? What?

 

[Immortal1]

Originally posted by: rbV5
He's talking about the AIW VE, which is a 7500 class AIW PCI card (the TV Wonder cards do not use Rage Theater or Theater 200 chip)

Immortal1, you need to be more specfic as to what your are looking to upgrade about your card. Do you need higher quality inputs? Outputs? What?

I'm thinking that the card is starting to go out as I've been getting artifacts and also it seems to stutter/freeze when loading video. Since putting it in my new computer (P4 2.53 w/640 meg RAM) it seems to be getting worse. I've checked the settings, and have installed the newest drivers (3.2) and it didn't make it worse or help.
The input/outputs on this card work for what I need: composite video in, composite/SVHS out, single monitor.
I have firewire on a seperate card and don't need DVI or TV: if it's there fine but not a major concern.