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| ATI All In Wonder Radeon 8500DV | Graphics Card Tv Tuner DV/Firewire Analog VideoIn |
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AGP | $200 | 7.3/10 43 votes |
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| With 64MB of DDR memory, unbelievable graphics, TV and video capture & editing features, the ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™ 8500DV is the revolutionary all-in-one 3D graphics and multimedia experience.
At-a-glance Powered by the RADEON™ 8500 GPU 64MB DDR memory Connect a digital camcorder to a PC Digital and analog video capture & editing Wireless radio-frequency remote control Stereo TV-tuner TV-ON-DEMAND™ Time shifting Integrated Interactive Program Guide DVD video playback with Dolby® AC-3 digital audio output* Reliable customer service from ATI Designed and manufactured by ATI Featuring CATALYST™ - ATI\'s industry-leading software suite with frequently scheduled free updates providing additional features and performance over the product\'s lifetime |
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Does not work under Vista x64 as today. That´s why it sux (under Vista). Under WXP Iw ould rate it as 7 (given that you use the right version on MMC). Comments posted by ofbarea from Costa Rica, March 04, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP |
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Purchsed card for it's analogue capture, but found that the quality is crap. The output seems too pixelated. But it is a good card and the remote is great :) Comments posted by Gooch from United States, March 02, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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The DVI socketry on the 8500DV is for plugging in a TFT screen that has a DVI input. DVI = Digital Video Interface (unless anyone knows better) VGA is an analogue interface Amdaley. Unless you have a TFT or other flat panel type of monitor (plasma) that accepts DVI, you don't need the DVI feature. Plug the DVI to VGA adaptor into the card and the monitor into that. So if you've switched the DVI output to on...it should be "off". If your PC shows start up screens like the BIOS etc. the graphics card is working. If you don't, either the card is broken (lots of capacitors that stick out of it can break off in transit!!) , or that DVI switch (never noticed that on our 8500DV's) you've noticed is stopping things. As far as changing graphics, you should always select a standard VGA driver in Windows, so that the new card will display something with the new hardware. Then you can install the new hardware drivers, speaking of which.... Install the newest Catalyst display driver, Multimedia Centre, and Hydravision (and Remote Wonder if your Radeon has it) from the ATI website....as the new set is by far and away the best bet to getting everything wokring easily. Older driver sets have tended to be a gordian knot of problems. The newest Catalyst versions have lots of new features (thru view window and full screen on even older All In Wonder Radeons) and bypasses old problems like video capture / playback loops. It's taken them a few years, but ATI have finally got it sorted on the driver front. Gording. Comments posted by Gording from Other, February 07, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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This is my second report on this board. I now give it a 10 rating for capture, and still have a 9 for the rest of it. However I have found some cures that ATI will never tell you about. I had to reload drivers two to five times a day. This was happing with some older SVGA monitors. Replaced the monitor and have never had the problem reoccur. Dual monitor, I mean one TV monitor and one SVGA will not always work unless you have a 82 ohm (220) for the 9000 series) resistor from composite out to ground. Not all tv monitors have this. All companies should drop the automatic detection crap, and go back jumper pins. ATI support is bad, but when I sent the board in, they said they could not find anything wrong, they at least sent me back a replacment board back, and it worked fine. Would I buy another?......... Yes because you can not beat it's MPEG2 capture, I mean 15000 bps 720x480 and never never a dropped frame. You can not tell the mpeg2 capture from the DV capture. Did I buy another? yes, a 9000 just as good but needed all the fixes I mention above. Richard Comments posted by Richard F. Motzer from United States, January 29, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Apologies for earlier posts with a different POV. I've had this card for about 2 years and it rocks in my system: P4 1.9 Mhz, 584 Mb, 2 IDE & 2 SCSI (Tekram SCSI card) HDD for 140 Gb total, Win 2k Prof SP4, SoundBlaster Live. I'm capturing with MMC 8.8 (for MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 DVD) and VirtualDub for AVI. Plus the Video / Authoring software that came with my DVD (ULead Movie Factory 2 & NTI DVD). Video quality is awsome and frames drop are no more than 1 per 60 min. Capturing to DVD MPEG-2 TV programs (Babylon5, SG-1, etc.) is easy and smooth. A must Not-To-Do is: DO NOT ENABLE THE SOAP FILTERS in ATI MMC. Doing so will give you hundreds of frames drop and terrible video quality. Better setting up for 100% video motion prediction w/VBR. Variable Bit Rate for MPEG-2 @ 4.0 / 3.3, 224 Kbps 48/16 sound should give you 42 min of good quality capture that will fit Four (4) 1 hr TV Programs (42 min w/o commercials) on a DVD-R w/o video blurry or snow. I'm available for advice if needed at mejiarma@excite.com. Comments posted by Ramon from United States, January 25, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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This card Sux big time. I had nothing but problems since the day I bought it ! everytime when I am finally thinking that everything is working fine ... something goes wrong ! I had refresh rate problems ! I had sync problems, Drop frames problems & Errors while capturing with the Rca ports . Each time I downloaded new drivers , one problem got resolved and a new problem appears ! Can't stand ATI ! Just to let you know , I am using P4-1.6 , Defgragged the H.D several times and even reinstalled windows twice. This card is a living nightmare and ATI tech supoort are useless ! Comments posted by Jerry from Other, January 14, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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At the time I had originally got this card when it 1st came out, I sold away a geforce 4 ti 4600 and a hauppauge wintv pvr original. Mainly because the capture software in use at the time couldn't find the tv tuner/pvr. The only problems with this card are that it didn't need a silicon tuner, it only slowed down the gpu, the tuner ran hotter and didn't provide any significant improved tv reception. The other is that I would like hardware manufacturers to make unused hardware that needs drivers to be hardware disabing via a jumper. This is in reference to the firewire. I didn't use it and I use a resource friendly pc that I like to have irq friendly. Meaning no sharing or conflicts if possible. But this card series works. Comments posted by Jason from Other, September 10, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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Quit griping and get some good hardware. Get an ECS Pro board for a measly $45 bucks, with a sweet AMD XP processor and you'll be all set. I'm running 2 TiVo's both ECS Pro (K7S5A) boards, 512DDR, SB Live! (yes it does work), AMD XP 1800+. First all make sure your system has a good power supply, 300W is MINIMUM these days, go for a 400W! I've seen 3 computers in the past 2 mo's fail with screwy problems due to weak power supplies. People think they can just keep adding hardware, upgrading the processors, etc without worrying about power consumption.. upgrade the power supply! Now the card runs sweet. I've used this card for about a year. I've used the firewire and the regular capture. I run analog through a Sima video stabilizer. Helps on most things. I do get some tearing on older tapes that someone else reported. That IS annoying. I mailed a clip to ATI and they told me to RMA the card.. I laughed at them. Idiots. Anyway, it's worth the money. Read the manuals and experiment with the options. Peace. Comments posted by cb from Other, August 18, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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First off, let me address these that are having problems with this card, I too had a few problems after I did an upgrade of a fresh install of xp from windowsupdate.com. I took the card back and got a new one without the included games but has the new drivers (7.7.01 not the 7.6) When I installed the new card with the 7.7.01 drivers included, I haven't had any problems, but I also did all my updates after I installed all my drivers for my motherboard, which is a Chaintech 7NJS Zenith. I am running an over-clocked AMD 2100 to AMD 2600 specs, (2.1 GHz) with 512 MB of DDR SDRAM, HP 200i v1.51, and SB Audigy 2 Platinum. I recently come into a copy of XP Media Center, which is on the XP Pro platform, but the built-in TV features wont work with this card. (Not a problem, I only wanted it for other features that it included, it is basically a XP Pro with supposed extra tv tuner capabilities built in but they only work for the specific tuner they were designed for.) In any event, I mostly use this card to convert my VHS movies to DVD's or SVCD's to play on my big screen. I have absolutely no problems with the ability to do this with this card. Dubbing DVD's to SVCD or MiniDVD is not a problem with excellent quality. I have my main drive, a WD-120GB, on the built in raid 0 controller, and another WD-100GB on the primary IDE channel, with my 2 DVD drives on the secondary and it rocks when copying to the second drive, 70GB of storage for my movies/conversions as I use the other 30GB for my CD rips, which I rip to WMA9. I have it connected to Comcast Digital Cable, though I cannot recieve the HDTV signal thru this card, the S-Video signal coming in works great, and when I bring the audio signal into my audigy 2 thru the optical inputs, I get awesome sound on my Klipsch 5.1's. My HP f70 (17" flat panel) makes a great viewing experience in 16x9 widescreen mode. Full DVD MPEG2 quality recordings for my EZ CD Creator to burn direcctly to either CD-RW or DVD+RW turns out working great. I rip DVD's with either DVDx or with smart-ripper (depending on what I want to do with them,) and make compatible SVCD's or MiniDVD's that play on my home DVD player or on my powerbook. I don't use this for DV rips off of a camcorder, so the firewire devices are both turned off as I already have access to 5 other firewire ports that are already not being used, now for a way to get the other 4 usb ports working as I already have 4 working plus an internal usb multi card reader (4 in 1 smart card) connected to the internal connectors on my motherboard. By the way, the other DVD is an older toshiba player. When connected to my big screen, the games that come with my Audigy 2, and The Sims Online and Medal Of Honor Allied Assault all look great. I even tested TSO with this setup for Maxis. Having my wirelessly connected cable connection, this setup rocked, even on the flat panel screen, even while dually outputting it to the big screen. (I would have loved to been able to put the game on the big screen while simultaniously working on something else on the flat panel, but alas that is not a capability of this card, unfortunately.) I bought this card because at the time the AIW 9700 wasn't available and it was the top of the line at the time. I had an original AIW back when WIN 95 was "The O/S" and I loved it, it has done nothing but improve since. There are more things that can be improved upon even the upcomming AIW 9800. For one, I would include a tuner capable of recieving Digital Cable/Dish Net signals, improve upon the guide plus, where it actually gets the stations that you get. Also, I would upgrade the remote to one that is Media Center compatible, the tuner being Media Center compatible would be an excellent edition. Though Media Center lacks the ability to record to the vastly different codecs like the ATI one does, I would like to be able to record from the tuner to WMV9 instead of ATI's codec which is totally incompatible with everything on the market. While I am typing this I am watching a movie and recording it at the same time, tell me if you can find any other AIW type card that can do this. I thought about the Personal Cinema from NVidia, but its totally external and still can't do what this does, as well as this does it. Nothing else even comes close. No, with this motherboard, I dont have all my PCI slots used up, but I do use all the PCI holes in the case so adding another card would be inconvenient to say the least, besides, if I wanted to go back to a MicroATA form factor, it wouldn't fit. I had an ASUS A7N266-VM before I upgraded to the Chaintech board, and the previous card worked great in it as well. I didn't have any problems out of the card untill I recently did an update from windowsupdate.com then I started not being able to use the card. I paid for the new 8.1 disk and will be trying the new 8.3 drivers as soon as it gets here, to see if I have any problems out of it. Though I have no idea why anyone would want to buy it, there are versions in the 9000 and 9500 cards, but they don't have the DV inputs, which is fine as I dont even use them with this card. I got the card because I was under the impression that it would recieve digital signals from the antenna, what a rip! Comments posted by ArchAngelRay from Other, May 22, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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After having this card for a few months, found a big defect. So I'm lowering my rating to a "5". Capturing Hi8mm analog to AVI or MPEG2 works great. Capturing VHS tapes made within past few years works great too. But a major flaw has to do with old tapes. Say those recorded over 5-10 years ago. Not commercial tapes, but home videos recorded in the 80's. Flaw is that when playing these tapes on current generation VCR's such as Sony, JVC, (4 head, digital tracking etc), they look great on TV. But when seeing video on PC even in capture preview, there are occasional frames of distortion on top 25% of video. Can be best described as tearing or bending of the top of the video. Have found that by finding an old 2-head vcr from 1980's problem doesn't exist. Has something to do with AGC circuitry in current VCR's not present over 10 years ago. capture card appears to not handle this correctly. Via web/google searches have found dozens of other 8500DV owners with same complaint. Exchanged emails with a few. Even sent ATI customer support lists of complaints from others, sample pictures and they haven't responded with anything other than "will get back to you" in a month. Talked to them by phone too. No its not macrovision. So if you are going to use this card to convert old vhs home video's and your VCR is relatively new, go find an old VCR at a garage sale first. Or buy a different capture card. Comments posted by Steve from Other, May 22, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 5 of 10. |
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My reveiw is now updated from the last one 3/28/03 I have been looking into the Storm DV 2, and Matrox RT100 @ about a grand each for the last 2mths. I have to say that I really love this card @ 150.00 it does not do the realtime effects, but as an amatuer I can wait and let the software do the rendering. Captures @ 720 x 480 same as the $$$ models. I have used several different types of video software (see below) including avid 3.5 and it captures it perfectly and if your camera has device control, your set. I have a Dig 8 Sony TRV250, and it just works great with this card. No dropped frames, no system failures, just works. My advise would be get this card for all the features, if your new. @ 150.00 it works great, The only draw back is the TV output res @ 1024 x 728. I can live w/ that. But when you reveiw your movie/picture it is perfect on the TV, and I wish it supported 2 monitors and had 128mb on board. but oh well. After 4 1/2mths my reveiw has increase to a 9.5 for pricing and features. I'll get the high end card w/ my new PC, I just hope it is worth the 7X price !!! Comments posted by mark from Other, May 19, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I've bought an AIW 128 PRO in the past for my old Inteva PII, little complaints. Trusted this product and stuck with it. Purchased a P4 Sony Vaio, immediately purchased this card, only to run into problems that have lasted up to 3 months with this card, installation is a HORRIBLE nightmare (I found a 'cure' for this long sought-out problem in the next paragraph). Don't get me wrong, the card is GREAT once you get past installation. DO NOT update your drivers if the card works fine from the drivers already installed on the CD. Otherwise the updates are from the ATI website. Stay away from MMC 8.1 for capturing AVI (to my experience the AVI's produced from this version are not good for editing through some other encoding programs, I've also ran into many audio-synch problems... MMC 7.7 works FINE). MPEG capture is excellent, even real-time DVD capture if your CPU can handle it. I've used the MPEG capture feature for years on my older AIW 128 PRO. There is one problem that I haven't solved or heard anyone else discuss so I will post here. During installation, the installation seems to go fine, but upon restarting sometimes or turning your computer off then rebooting again... You'll notice during start-up, the text on the DOS screen appears to melt or appear in wave-like patterns. Your screen may appear blurry or text appears to be in bold type in some areas in Windows. VERY annoying. I found myself reinstalling the whole thing everytime to avoid this. I then realized this only happens if I have an RCA-video or S-Video connection going to my television (even when the TV is turned off). The computer seems to be 'confused' when trying to run on multiple displays, even during installation the resolution was displayed incorrectly on my PC monitor, leave the TV connection unplugged during installation). ONLY plug these connections in AFTER Windows has booted (the multiple monitor feature DOES work!!). Otherwise leave them unplugged everytime you restart. Comments posted by vivisimonvi from Other, May 07, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I Love this card! I bought it to capture DVD video better, and it does! No dropped frames. As a test I set it to capture a 2 hour movie in the highest quality DVD. I left it on overnight thinking I set it to stop after 2 hours, I didn't. I had captured 8 solid hours of perfect high quality DVD video, No droped frames! Awesome! Spiderman and Starfighter work great and look soooo much better then with my old 32 bit card. Warning! Don't upgrade to media center 8.1. 8.1 did seem to work really good, but all my other programs that capture video would crash when I opened them. I reinstalled the old drives and everything works great again! Comments posted by RICK from Other, April 27, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I BOUGHT MY ATI AIW @ BEST BUY ON SALE FOR $149.AFTER REMOVING THE OLD DRIVERS AND INSTALLING THE NEW DRIVERS MY CARD WAS UP AND RUNNING.THE CARD IS GREAT FOR GAMING,SOF2,GTA3,AND ABOUT 15 OTHER GAMES I HAVE WHITH THE VIDEO SETTINGS ON MEDIUM QUALITY.AS FAR AS THE CAPTURING GOES ATI'S SOFTWARE BLOWS AS WELL AS THE BUNDLED ULEAD SOFTWARE.HOWEVER I JUST BOUGHT THE NEW SONY DRU500 DVDR +R AND YES -R AT 4X[with downloaded drivers] AND THE BUNDLED SOFTWARE THAT CAME WITH IT IS AWESOME NOT LIKE VEGAS 4.0,BUT IT ACTUALY WORKS WITH MY AIW. IT CAPTURES DVD QUALITY 10 TIMES BETTER THAN ATI'S SOFTWARE.AFTER I CAPTER IT I JUST BURN IT TO DVD.IT WORKS FLAWLESSLY.TO SUM IT UP $149 FOR A AIW 8500 DV AND A SONY DRU500 MAKE A GREAT DVD STUDIO.IF YOU CAN AFORD THE $599 PRICE TAG OF VEGAS 4.0+DVD SOFTWARE I RECOMEND BUYING IT.THAT IS ALL Comments posted by JIG from Other, April 07, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I really like the card, It is my frist graphics card and I am using it for the RCA & FW in & out ports, It works great w/ Premire 6.5, Vegas 4, Ulead MSP/SV. It took some tweeking to get it right, I suggest a fresh machine w/ just an O/S, and then download all the current drivers, Also I found tech support great, just call early AM, b/4 all the slowbies try to get through, also do not register your card right away, that way your support starts on your first call.. When did you buy the card ??? yesterday... follow the printed material and it works great, although I had trouble exporting to the TV, need to check the theatre mode option to view on TV. Also on that note, I currently can only support 1024 x 786 on the TV, not very clear, but very decent for quick viewing, now run your video through premiere, and it is great. Just wish they had a 128mb ver. 9+ very happy. Comments posted by markp_92647 from Other, March 28, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I am looking to buy my second 8500DV. I do 8mm & super 8mm film transfer as a business. Before I had two Miro DC 30 boards which gave excellent capture, but transfering to DVD, it was not the way to go. My use of the 8500DV is stricky for SVHS to Mpeg2 capture at 15,000 per second. Why so high? I need to due post processing in Virtualdub version 1.51 MPEG2. Yes virtual dub can read MPGE2 files, you just need the hacked version. The capture quality (SVHS to MEG2) is super with its own capture program, but make sure the values haven't changed on you since you last used it. This is the big issue for me. It will work with windows 98, as least as capture is concern, but the operating system I chosed is Win2000Pro. Not only does the capture settings change, but the monitor, anolog monitor, and overlay settings change almost everyday, and after reloading, very rarely can I go over 800x600 without it producing some odd ball frequency setup that no monitor can handle. I have not loading the new 7.7.1 drivers as of this date, so the bottom line for me is if your into video capture only, this is the card for you with the wierd stuff it does. I have another Radeom card in a different computer, and it has the same problems. It will capture 720x480 on my old AMD 1.3 gig non-XP system with no dropped frams. My machine today is a P-4 @ 2.4 gig Top of the line Asus motherboard 1.5 gig ram DDR, and a total of 360 gig of ATA 100 IDE, no raid drives connected. I hope this is some help to you. Richard Comments posted by Richard from Other, March 14, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Denman007 reported February 07 2003 that: My friend just popped this card in his new Dell 8250 and now it won't POST. Card works in other machines. Any ideas on what to do? Thanks. Had the same problem with my Dell 8250. Removed and Replaced card. Reformatted Hard Drive. Contacted Dell support, had no clue what the problem was. Comments posted by eliteb69 from Other, March 12, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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Replaced my old analog Haupaugge WinTV with this card. I was going to go for the 9700 version, but $500 is not in my budget. I heard from ATI that the video capturing capabilities of the 8500DV and 9700 AIW are the same, so I did not feel I got a lesser card for what I need it for. So far I like the card. Capturing was easy and I like the separate dongle-like device which makes it a lot easier to change cables without access the back. Wrestled with some major frame dropouts to AVI format, but since DVD uses MPEG, it turns out that format appears to be better as far as frame losses go. Did some major tweaking to minimize CPU overhead. I like some of the video adjustments (color, contrast, brightness). I always seem to adjust for differences in content. Included software is ok. I don't know if I would ever use most of it since I already have a TiVo. Overall I rate this card as very good. it was easy to install on XP, no BSOD's, no problems. I just wish I have a better processor (P4 1.4 ghz)to handle some if the video rendering I have been doing. Comments posted by TXCHENG from Other, March 04, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Well, I read all these negative reviews, and I was not going to buy this, but a friend told me he had a 7500, and it did what I wanted it to do. What I wanted to do: capture video from multiple sources, save in multiple formats, and edit in Media Studio Pro 6.5 Well, all I can say is, WOW. This card not only does waht I hoped for, but 10 times more, I kid you not. I've had it about a month, and I am able to capture in ANY, I repeat, ANY format I can think of. AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMF, and an ATI proprietary format. I was most interested in capturing so I could do frame-based editing, I wanted to do some blue screen stuff onto captured video. Well, just capture in AVI format, and load into Media Studio Pro as the source, no problem. The included breakoout box made my wiring situation alot easier. I've had no trouble with the firewire port and my digital video camera. I am totally pleased with this card. The only problem I have had is with the playback software. It doesn't like to rewind or fast forward mpeg-2 files. No trouble, though, I just use PowerDVD. Also, the rf remote is kinda cool too. As for games, I pulled a GeForce4 MX440 to put this in. In Medal of Honor, it runs just the same. I didn't have to change any settings. I bought this card at COMPUSA for 199.00. I guess it's out there for 149.00. Well, you'd be dumb to not get it for that. I also have the Creative PVR card, which doesn't do anything but make a cool TiVo machine, but, so does this card. My advice, if you want an ALL in One Video and Capture card, this is the one, the ONLY one, as far as I know, to get. Great job, ATI. Comments posted by mshihrer from Other, February 21, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I've had this card for almost 2 years now. There were terrible compatabiliy issues with an IWILL K266 mboard but a switch to an ASUS A7N8X fixed that. I'm running WinXP Pro with AMD Atlon XP 2000+, 3Gigs of Corsair DDR pc2100 ram, 4 WD Special edition 180 gig hard drives, Panasonic 16x DVD, Plextor40-10 CDR, Creative SoundBlaster Audigy EX, Analog cable through catv in, digital cable through s-video, and 6 security cameras through RCA in. This card is amazing timeshifting tv, recoding 24/7 from my sec. cameras and porting back out to a Sony HDTV. If you have another firewire on your box you MUST disable the ATI firewire by jumper on the card, also make sure your bios is updated and set properly especialy the AGP aperture and video memory shadowing. As for ATI's tech support they are CANADIAN of course they will seem rude and indifferent to most Americans try shoping retail in Canada if you want cheerless service. Go to Sam's Club, drop $20.00 on a 1000 minute phone card and use it on ATI daily... They will bend over backwards to help you the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Comments posted by Dobbstown from Other, February 10, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Hey! before you people start crying about wishing you hadn't bought this card, check out this link: http://www.pcaudiolabs.com/setup_tips/index.htm In this site, you can learn to optimize your PC by assigning the IRQs correctly to specific devices. Hitup this site then email me for any questions Comments posted by Vincent from Other, January 30, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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After seeing folks on this site either love it or hate it, figured I'd try it. With $20 rebate at Best Buy seem good at $149 net. Followed instructions to the letter, step by step. Before removing old 32mb nVida video card, set video to std. VGA, popped the new card in, XP found it and I added drivers from CD install. No problems. All in all, very good captures in Analog mode with Hi8 camcorder (don't have DV camcorder to try). Quality is very good. S/W could be a bit better to switch inputs but otherwise good. ULEAD isn't intuitive so that's why only an 8 since it came with the card. But luckily PC came with Pinnacle Studio 7 and it works fine with this card, and is MUCH nicer/easier than ULEAD. Using it HP P4, 1.8 ghz, 512 RAM, 120gb 7200 HD. XP Home and never added SP1 since all is well. Comments posted by Steve from Other, January 26, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Real pita to get set-up, but does an acceptable job once you're done. The CHEAP sleve bearing fan failed after 3 weeks of use and will make a pretty annoying noise along with a fair amount of video instability if it does. I had to install an updated driver to get xp out of compatibility mode during a fresh reload of xp. Im using it on a system with an ASUS A7N8X deluxe, a 2600+ AMD, 512mb ddr400 , and a Sony Dru-500a. The DVI video does work fine on my Samsung 19" LCD. Also a motherboard with APIC enabled is a must because of the extra IRQ's needed by this card. And one more thing MAKE SURE you have your line-in volume adjusted before you capture, in most cases people have tried to do this and it is either at half volume or muted. Comments posted by NavyWS6@aol.com from Other, January 26, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 5 of 10. |
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I have been using the AIW 8500 DV for 8 months now. I have not had any issues to deal with. With the latest drivers (Catalyst) and the new MMC 7.7.0.1 I can now capture in SVCD with a preset capture setting. I have tried this and it works great. It even plays in my DVD player that I bought recently. I have been very pleased with the performance of this card. I have never had a driver instability issue, I also do not use beta drivers or play driver of the week game. MY system is an ECS K75SA with an Athlon XP 1800, 512 MB SDRAM and Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer sound card. Thanks to all the new drivers from Creative and ATI to fix the sound level issues. The sound level issue never bothered me. I used the speaker volume control to control volume levels. Any questions about what I do to make everything work right, just e-mail me. Comments posted by Glenn Laderer from Other, January 14, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Don't buy this: History - I have a dell dimension 8200, soundblaster live and GeForce4 MX420 standard set up from Dell. Decided it would be nice to capture video and audio from TV (like TiVO) or digital camcorder. Chose the ATI 8500 DV because of good reviews. Installation of harware was easy, installation of software was straightforward. Watching cable TV and recording the shows was admittedly cool. File size was huge! But picture on flat screen dell monitor was fuzzy compared with the MX420. DVD's wouldn't play on the TV; sound from games would start and stop on monitor or TV mode. Replaced the ATI card with original video card (MX420) - everything great again. If you still want to buy the ATI 8500 DV video card I'll sell you mine real cheap! Comments posted by jeremy edmunds from Other, January 12, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10. |
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more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Card= New Capture Card since your last vist. Feature What kind of main capture features it supports Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware* MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware* MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware* MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware* * = Most capture cards can capture to this format using software but it usually requires a very fast computer, if it supports realtime capturing it uses the capture cards hardware and it doesn't require a very fast computer and you may get better quality but less options/settings than software capturing. Compatibility What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Cnx = Connection What type of connection the capture device has to the computer, PCI, AGP, USB1/1.1/2, DV or PCMCIA. Price The price in US dollar. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. Comment User comments, click on view to view them or add to post a own comment. We can not gurantee that this list is 100% correct. Don't forget to read the User Comments for more Info about each Capture card. If you find any features that are not correct contact us instead of posting a comment about it. |
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