Friday, May 27, 2005
PC World Looks at ATI's Latest TV-Tuner Cards
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 01:59 PM
"ATI Technologies has sold PCI-based TV tuners, and graphics cards with TV-tuning capabilities, for several years. Its most recent such products make TV on a PC look better than ever before--but they're still no match for the real thing, TV on a TV. I looked at ATI's TV Wonder Elite, a $149 PCI analog TV-tuner card that you install alongside your existing AGP or PCI Express graphics board. It uses ATI's Theater 550 Pro video processor, which incorporates a hardware MPEG-2 encoder, a 3D comb filter, and a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (most cards use converters with 10 or fewer bits); all of these features are supposed to improve video quality."
