Friday, August 20, 2004
PCWorld Reviews ATI's HDTV Wonder
Posted by James Fee in "THOUGHT" @ 04:00 PM
"Hesitant to drop thousands on a new television just to get high-definition broadcasts? Who could blame you, what with the ongoing confusion about whether you can get HD, how many channels you can get, and whether you can record it. But here's a stopgap: ATI's HDTV Wonder, a $199 PCI card that brings over-the-air HDTV to your computer. Besides receiving both analog and free digital TV, the HDTV Wonder has digital video recorder functions, so you can watch, pause, and record these transmissions, and save them to your system's hard drive, to CD, or to DVD. Your PC must have an ATI Radeon graphics card (with DirectX 9), which will cost at least an additional $150 if you don't already have one."
Well I have a Nvidia card so I can't use this, but those with Radeon cards should take a look. Included are a remote control, a small HDTV antenna and a breakout box to import video. At $199 list, this card could allow many people without HDTVs to be able to watch footballs games in HDTV this fall. :lol:
Well I have a Nvidia card so I can't use this, but those with Radeon cards should take a look. Included are a remote control, a small HDTV antenna and a breakout box to import video. At $199 list, this card could allow many people without HDTVs to be able to watch footballs games in HDTV this fall. :lol:
