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| ATI TV Wonder Elite | Tv Tuner Analog VideoIn MPEG2 hardware |
Vista? *based on user reports. |
PCI | $100 | 6.8
(6.8) 12 votes |
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| Highest quality Home Theater TV Experience
Get a high-end home theater system with the flexibility and advanced features only a PC can offer with ATI's TV WONDER™ ELITE. This revolutionary product adds consumer electronics-quality video to your PC for a fraction of the cost of expensive components. Featuring high quality TV and stereo FM radio, TV WONDER™ ELITE delivers full hardware MPEG-2 compression, a 3D comb filter, and advanced noise reduction for advanced Personal Video Recorder capabilities. |
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Running on a barbones MSI WinXP P3@700mhz/512MB and doing it rather well. Everything else I've read here, however, is pretty much on the mark. The quality of the capture exceeds all of the AIW's or TV Wonder's I've had (aiw 128, 7500, 9000). It's actually the best I've seen with excellent noise reduction. The total lack of configuration, however, is a problem. I use this as a PVR for my 3-year-old, and in that vein, it worked well after installing/re-installing the software. The packaged CD software worked better than the updates downloaded from ATI (and, unfortunately, that's often a problem with all ATI problems; finding the one that works in your system). The PowerCinema software is absolute garbage, and the remote has a nice layout, but seems to work sporadically. I give this a higher score based on the fact it breaths life into a pretty ancient system with excellent capture quality. Since late P3's have low power consumption (no heat fan, just a sink), I expect this 5 year-old MSI sff machine to work for another 2 years or so; maybe longer. Comments posted by Ron from United States, November 23, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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ATI's support and support on their own products is the worst I have ever seen. Based on this I am moving to NVIDIA based vid cards next time I upgrade. ATI TV Wonder Elite Remote edition is the TV card I have in my system now with an ATI X700 AGP vid card. I have what I call a basic configuration. OS: Windows XP MCE 2005 RAM: 2GB DDR 400 Dual channel Motherboard: ASUS K8N CPU: AMD 64 3000+ socket 754 Audio: SB Audigy gamer (original) Video card: ATI X700 AGP 8x 128mb Dual Monitors: Primary Nokia 445ZA (21" CRT) Secondary: CTL 900VX (19" CRT) Primary OS drive: WD Raptor 36gb SATA 10k RPM Secondary storage: total of 500GB's across 3 drives OS on secondary partition: Mandriva 2007 RC2 Everything works on Linux except TV tuner and ATI remote. Here's the deal - The TV card works fine with Windows MCE 2005. Either with the MCE drivers or the drivers it came with on cd. Doesn’t really matter cause it works the same. I have no issues with either function except the remote. Seems that when I have the ATI remote software loaded (either disabled or enabled) I cannot run remote desktop software (I use MS RDP and www.logmein.com plus Radmin 2.1 as a backup) because it puts a large "Circle" black graphic under the mouse pointer and it tracks with the cursor. I cannot play any game (City of heroes mainly) cause it puts up a distorted graphic under the mouse cursor which makes it unplayable. If I don’t play any games or remote into my box from work, the remote works perfectly. I have emailed and talked to ATI and PlayNC (NCSoft) about the graphic issue when the remote software is installed. ATI points the finger at PlayNC and PlayNC points the finger back to ATI. I hate them both now. Here's my gripes: 1) There is ABSOLUTELY NO LINUX SUPPORT with this TV card. 2) ATI's support is the worst EVER 3) As usual with ATI, you have to load 50 different apps to get the 3 functions to work properly with each other 4) ATI's software is the worst ever. I've seen Windows ME be more stable than ATI's software. Oh and running MMC which requires powercinema? Good luck unless you own a copy of 3.0 from cyberlink. If you don’t, and you just want to load the damn drivers, then you are S.O.L Here's my likes: 1) The card works perfectly with Windows MCE 2005 with no extra apps installed just the drivers and a video codec 2) The time shift (PVR) functions work great 3) The record ability of MCE RULES. 4) FM Tuner works great too. Even the schedule record. 5) On Screen guide within MCE works great. End of line. Comments posted by BurnOut from United States, October 07, 2006: Compatibility: |
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Card works relatively well. As others have said, software included is not really very good. It does include Gemplus TV Guide, but I found the screen fonts are too small to see from my television. FM recording is kinda cool. I have ditched the included software for GBPVR. It's more like WinXP Media Center so you can use it to integrate all of your digital media. You lose some functionality with the remote, but if you search the GBPVR forums, for ATI WONDER ELITE, other users have made plugins for the ATI Remote Elite Plus that gets you back some of the critical keys on the remote. I use this to record TV and playback Tivo but avoid Tivo's subscription fees. Comments posted by Doug from United States, September 22, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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The picture is very good, as is the FM. The latest (3/06) mmc software works with this card. The software that came with it did not work on my dual opteron. The system crashes dead if you try the channel preview scan. The remote control works for me until you turn on the tv. Then it never works. And the remote software kept crashing, so I removed it. If I leave on their multimedia control center, my system also hangs. ATI was not sympathetic, saying that I "had a server system they do not support." I am looking for a way to use it in Linux too. Comments posted by Jim Rome from United States, May 06, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I bought one of these specifically for its FM tuner. The updated (free) Powercinema software works and produces excellent wave files. I've replaced a receiver, timer, and cassette recorder with a mini-itx board and the TV Elite. I am quite pleased with the results. The video is okay - pity about the software - but that's not why I bought it. Comments posted by Bob from Canada, March 06, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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The software is definitely worthless although the picture quality is good in it. I purchased ChrisTV because of its support for the card and my hatred of Power Cinema. Other than a few issues, ChrisTV does a good job. One issue is with video/audio synching but that issue is supposed to be resolved with the next driver. The filter ffdshow which runs in ChrisTV helps with the synching and does make the picture nearly crystal clear. Overall, this is the best picture I've gotten from a tv tuner card out of the 6 I've owned. Comments posted by Bubba from United States, November 29, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Tried two cards simultaneously, the Hauppauge PVR-150 (non MCE) and the TV Wonder Elite. For the over 100% price difference - there is absolutely no difference in displayed and captured quality. The only difference is with the software package and 3rd party support. The included software is pretty bad but the remote is excellent - great construction whereas the Hauppauge's is just average. Save your money. Comments posted by S Timinski from United States, September 08, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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This card is the worst. It is not compatable with ATi's own software (MMC). MMC won't even install with this card in your system. The software that ATI packs with this card is worse than the worst. You have NO control over anything including where the finish file is stored. There are three choices for video quality, and nowhere does the documentation say what format, or bitrate these are for. This card is supposed to be ATI's best? Not at all, It's their worst. I sent mine back after one day. Don't even bother with this card, your time will be wasted. Comments posted by GFTMiami from United States, September 04, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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DET You have discovered what many have: Cyberlink software is worthless and ATI has left us abandoned without MMC support. For a detailed discussion of the problems, see these threads at Hexus: http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=29031&page=1&pp=15 http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?p=424153#post424153 LRD Comments posted by LRD from United States, March 23, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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If you just want to watch TV while you piddle around on the computer, this card is for you. If you want to capture video, don't waste your money. After 3 All In Wonder cards and several other ATI cards, they have finally managed to disappoint me. And boy did they make up for all the praise I have given them over the years. This card doesn't capture as well or with the quality of the AIW cards. This is very disappointing given the hype it received on their website. I thought I was buying the ultimate capture card with onboard MPEG2 encoding. If this wasn't bad enough, they managed to make it worse with the Power Cinema software that was included. You can't even save captured files to a different location than the default that is set by the software. I'll probably give this to someone I don't like and buy a Hauppage. Hopefully their graphics cards aren't going to follow in this same trend. Comments posted by DETector from United States, March 23, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 5 of 10. |
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Good picture, timeshifting feature works well. Could be a perfect card with better software. Scheduled radio recording does not work. Upgrading to the retail Cyberlink PowerCinema corrects the radio scheduling problem, but breaks the remote control. Many buttons on the remote now work improperly, even after reinstallation of the ATI remote control software. Would also be nice to have more advanced control of where particular recordings are stored and how they are named. Worst of all, ATI tech support is non-existant. Comments posted by jakester from United States, March 12, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10. |
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AIW Fan The card does not work well with MMC 9.03. If fact, you will see large interlaced lines, and you will have serious sync issues near the end of recordings. I have confirmed this with my Sapphire card based on the same 550 chip. ATI will tell you the 550 chip is NOT supported by any MMC, and never will be. Too bad I was told only after I purchased. If you try to run the 550 card with Cyberlink Power Cinema while also running an AIW with MMC---well you can't. The AIW card will not initialize. So forget limping along with a 2 tuner setup. If you are happy with the Cyberlink software, you won't be when it fills your system drive with 8 gig movies when set to "best". And forget saving encodes on a slave drive---YOU CAN'T. Until ATI provides good software, I recommend you buy a Hauppauge 150, download gbpvr, and enjoy. LRD Comments posted by LRD from United States, March 08, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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I want to love the cards hardware specs and performance, but the software and support is a JOKE. ATI Tech support has dropped the ball on themselves this time. I Spoke to Pre sales and also was told a senior tech would try my configuration and results yesterday, and return a call, that did not happen. Today I called back and was told sorry NO MMC support. There only suggestion was to email ATI with a feature request for the TV Wonder Elite 550 and MMC 9.x support. I am very dissapointed in ATI and there marketing if they dont agree that this is an issue. Why did they even call this card a TV wonder ,The AIW X600 box claims it supports Multiview with ATI TV Wonder cards. Where does it say except the high end one ? I think ATI has huge problem on there hands . I now have $400 worth of ATIs latest Products that are completely incompatable with each other. I didnt see that warning on either box. OK so the TV Elite gets no support from MMC 9.x. so our next problem is that these 2 boards cannot function with there included software in the same PC. I have proven the Remote Wonder Plus will cause MMC 9.3 to crash every time any app is launced. So I now will open another Ticket with ATI regarding simply allowing both to operate as advertised when both are in the same pc. Stay tuned, this is not over. Comments posted by AIW_FAN from United States, March 08, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Got it working with MMC 9.3, and an AIW X600 pro . video quality is excellent!. hardware mpeg encoder too. waiting for official support but looks promising. Comments posted by AIW_FAN from United States, March 08, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 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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