Ati TV Wonder VE

[FerrariF50]

does anyone have this tv tuner card? Or should I go with the hauppauge WinTV-go both the Ati and the Hauppauge are priced the same at $49.99

The Ati Wonder VE:
http://www.ati.com/images/1024-249.jpg

The specs for the Ati:

TV WONDER VE at a glance


Watch TV on your PC

Get interactive TV listings with no monthly fee

Capture motion video and still images

Schedule and record TV programs

Scan channels at a glance

Zoom in on the action

Monitor closed captioning for Hot Words1

Play audio and video CDs2



Watch TV on your PC


Watch one of the 125 television channels in a window or full screen, while you work in other applications

Connect TV WONDER™ VE to a cable signal or amplified antenna

Powerful ATI® MULTIMEDIA CENTER software enables many advanced features like:

Channel Preview – scan through all available stations in seconds, see “what’s on” at a glance

Video Desktop – display live TV signal as video wallpaper



GUIDE Plus+™ Interactive Program Guide (North America only)


Scroll through TV listings while watching the current channel in a window

Search and schedule programs for viewing or recording by title, category (i.e. golf, comedies, etc.), actor/performer or date

All the benefits of a Personal Video Recorder without the monthly fee



Digital VCR and Scheduled Viewing


Set the time and channel of any TV program you want to watch and TV WONDER™ VE will notify you when it comes on

No time to watch it right away? The digital VCR can record the program to your hard drive so you can view it later

Includes real-time video compression software – capture more video in MPEG format than ever before, using the same amount of disk space!



TV Magazine & Hot Words (North America only)


Create a TV Magazine with images and text from the chosen programs

Use the “Hot Words” real-time word notification feature to let you know when words or phrases are detected – great tool for journalists, investors, students or sports fans


Watch TV while browsing the Net

Tired of waiting for your computer to download Internet files? Now you can watch your favorite TV program while you browse the net.

Time passes faster with the TV browser feature!


MPEG-2 Motion Video Capture and Still Image Capture

Enhance your PC's video capabilities using the video input support of TV WONDER VE, which lets you capture still images or motion video from nearly any device like VCRs, camcorders or game consoles

Use the images to enhance your presentations, e-mails, websites and other projects

[BinarySuperman]

i just got the hauppuage wintv and im loving it, it has great screen shot quality, and i hookd up my camcorder to it and its beautiful, and the tv qualitl from my digital cable it awesome, if i found the ati tv wonder ve i would've bought it but all they had was the ati-tv wonder the one that cost 80 bucks, so i got the hauppauge instead, either one is good.

[FerrariF50]

and now the hauppauge WinTV-go

Live TV-in-a-window on VGA monitors from 640x480 to 1280x1024 in up to 16 million colors.

Built-in cable ready TV tuner: a 125-channel cable TV tuner with automatic channel scan.

Resize the WinTV window from icon size to full screen (or any size in between!)

Auxiliary audio/video input connects to video cameras, VCR's and camcorders, too

Audio output can go to your sound card's Line-In connector or to self-powered speakers.

Capture professional quality 24-bit images with 4:2:2 digitizing. Image save formats supported: TIFF, BMP, PCX, GIF, TGA plus compressed JPEG in color or black/white at 8, 16 and 24-bits.

Videoconference over the Internet! The WinTV PCI's video digitizer is compatible with your favorite conferencing package such as: Microsoft NetMeeting, CU-SeeMe, Smith Micro's AudioVision, VDOnet, Connectix VideoPhone, Vocaltec's IPhone, Vivo and lots more. Simply add a video camera and one of these software packages to video conference over the phone lines or the internet.

Create high impact presentations with 320x240 AVI clip capture with real time preview. Creates high quality AVI video’s in a YUV format.

Plug-and-Play is used to simplify the installation and setup of WinCast. There are no switches to set and no internal cables to connect!

[FerrariF50]

Originally posted by BinarySuperman
i just got the hauppuage wintv and im loving it, it has great screen shot quality, and i hookd up my camcorder to it and its beautiful, and the tv qualitl from my digital cable it awesome, if i found the ati tv wonder ve i would've bought it but all they had was the ati-tv wonder the one that cost 80 bucks, so i got the hauppauge instead, either one is good.

well compusa is reporting their is only a few left.... And the Ati is more of what i'm looking for...

[FerrariF50]

bump

[BinarySuperman]

tell me how the ati works

[FerrariF50]

sure thing