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ATI TV Wonder HD 650 Combo PC TV Tuner

ATI TV Wonder HD 650 Combo PC TV Tuner
by Diamond Multimedia

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Manufacturer: Diamond Multimedia
Audio: English (Original Language)
Model: TVW650PCIE
Product features:

Attach your analog TV or HD antenna to watch, pause or record TV on your PC
Brilliant TV with 3D Comb Filter & , Automatic Color & Gain Control, Noise Reduction, Edge Enhancement.
ATI Catalyst Media Center⿢ offers DVD Playback and Authoring Software
Two built-in tuners offer combo tuning for Over-the-air Digital TV/HDTV ATSC digital TV tuner
Video Processing Technology offers Hardware MPEG-2 compression, Motion Adaptive 3D Comb Filter

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Customer Review: CAUTION as always with driver updating....
Summary: 5 Stars

Blanket statements aren't the best to make either. There are times when supplied drivers are / can be far superior to the latest drivers from the website. Case in point with the old versions of ATI's TV tuner & All-In-Wonder Cards. If you were to have gone out & downloaded new drivers... you could/would have fark'd up your TV tuners operation...
ATI made a sudden transition from Analog Drivers to a T200 unified Digital driver bundle (BTW the analog drivers were far superior, much faster and more responsive & ACTUALLY A BETTER VIDEO QUALITY with (SD-TV Signals)...this made all the older ATI MultiMedia Center (MMC) software incompatible with newer Catalyst Video drivers - Anything prior to MMC 9.08 now un-useable!

OK, fine so why not just run out & jump to the newer MMC drivers...well for starters ATI didn't inform or explain what they had done to the customers (you know the ones paying for the products & supposed service) but suppose you did download the newer MMC and managed to avoid all the incompatibilities left on MOST systems due to an inadequate ATI uninstall (via Windows Add or Remove programs) causing analog & digital driver incompatibilites...but lets suppose you knew that Guru3d (dot) com has a free program called Driver Cleaner pro and got rid of all the ATI video & multimedia software and registry keys (BEFORE THAT IN MANY CASES PEOPLE HAD TO REVERT BACK TO A SAVED GHOST/DRIVE IMAGE IF THEY WERE SO LUCKY AS TO MAKE THOSE == IN WORST CASES (MANY MANY CASES) THEY HAD TO RE-INSTALL WINDOWS XP.....

Ok so you then install the Catalyst video drivers & the new MMC on a relatively clean slate.... except its FULL Of bugs & they completely changed its functionality... Now anytime you turn on the tv tuner card or that part of your all-in-wonder card it starts recording (since it was software encoding it took a bigger portion of CPU & memory than previously when the TV ran passive-not recording unless YOU started a record). And then you had to go back in and delete all those recordings that were made (AGAIN THAT ATI DIDN'T EVEN TELL PEOPLE IT WAS DOING ALL THE TIME) and other than REGISTRY HACKING you can't pause or shut it off. Even with the REGISTRY HACK sometimes it will re-enable itself if for example you change from TV tuner input to Composite or S-Video...... The time span to write this... 5 minutes.... time span to LEARN about & get a hold of all the things (BY DEDICATED ATI CUSTOMERS) that updating to the newest software from ATI inflicted on my (ALL USERS OF THE SOFTWARE BACK THEN THE UPDATED) months to a year!~

So its a tangent but its a related tangent. DON"T UPDATE DRIVERS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT'S DONE IN THE UPDATE! DEMAND THAT COMPANIES BE MORE OPEN, WHATS IN THE UPDATE, WHY IS IT NEEDED, MORE THAN A TWO SENTENCE RELEASE NOTE (ROFL)... AND IN THIS CASE IF YOU EVEN NEED TO INSTALL THE DRIVERS FOR THIS CARD....as i said in other comments. If you use VISTA's Media Center for example, Vista will find the card and install all the drivers needed to operate it properly to use both HD & SD tuners.

I heartedly agree that Linux has some much better functionality, but last time i checked LINUX support for these ATI cards was (DESIGN yourselfware)? maybe things have changed but if not then you're better off going with a company like Hauppauge that has enbraced or supported the Linux community. Not really the choice for the basic user by any means. Ubuntu is beautiful but not if you have to tackle an unsupported card.

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Description of ATI TV Wonder HD 650 Combo PC TV Tuner

The ATI TV Wonder⿢ HD 650 loads your system with a complete set of media abilities, transforming you pC into the ultimate entertainment system. Attach your analot TV cable or an amplified high definition antenna and you can watch, pause or record TV on your PC. TV is made brilliant with the 3D Comb Filter producing a sharp, true-to-life image. Two built-in tuners offering combo tuning for: Over-the-air Digital TV/HDTV (ATSC) ATSC digital TV tuner, Over-the-air/Cable Analog TV (NTSC), Clear-QAM (unscrambled) Digital HD Cable. ATI Theater⿢ Video Processing Technology Specs: Hardware MPEG-2 compression, Motion Adaptive 3D Comb Filter, Automatic Color Control, Automatic Gain Control, Noise Reduction, Edge Enhancement. Also includes AMD LIVE!⿢ CD featuring AMD LIVE! on Demand. ATI Catalyst Media Center⿢ featuring: Full PVR and time shifting functionality, DVD Playback Software, DVD Authoring Software, ATI Theater⿢ Video Converter. Input Connectors: F-Type Coax input for Analog TV (NTSC), F-Type Coax input for HDTV (ATSC)/FM Radio, S-Video input, Stereo audio input. System Requirements: AMD® Athlon® or AMD® Sempron⿢, Intel® Pentium®4 or Celeron®, (or compatible) CPU, Sound card and speakers, Free PCIe slot on motherboard, CD drive (for installation software), AT Radeon⿢ 9600 or newer graphics card is recommended for optimal display output quality, Cable TV signal or amplified antenna. For Windows® XP: 256MB required, 512MB recommended for better performance. For Windows Vista®: 1GB required, 2GB recommended for better performance.

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