TV viewing

Setting everything up isn’t difficult. Once the card is installed you merely need to hook up your TV, FM, video, and audio connections and ATI does the rest. Simply plug in your monitor(s), FM antenna, cable (or antenna) TV connection, and speakers, then install ATI’s software, and everything will be up and running. The whole process is seamless and shouldn’t require any extra effort if you’re familiar with installing hardware in your PC. The hard part is literally waiting for everything to get installed (which can take roughly between 5-10 minutes, depending on the speed of your hard drive).

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Once that’s done, you’ll use ATI’s MultiMedia Center to launch applications such as the TV, DVD, and FM players.

The TV tuner supports up to 125 stations (70 if you use the antenna) while the FM tuner supports frequencies ranging from 75.9MHz to 108MHz. The radio player itself supports up to 10 radio station presets. The FM player also comes with built-in alarm and sleep settings, just like your standard alarm clock in your bedroom.

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The TV player can perform all the standard functions you normally associate with a TV, including the ability to preview all television stations (which are presented as small thumbnails) and, if you drop in a second TV tuner, you can have picture-in-picture support. ATI refers to this feature as mulTView. The TV player can also do some really cool things, such as THRUVIEW, which literally transforms your desktop into the TV program you’re watching! You can then work on a Word document while the TV literally sits underneath your work. The level of transparency can be adjusted to suit your eyes.

GUIDE PLUS+

Integrated seamlessly into ATI’s MultiMedia Center software is Gemstar’s GUIDE PLUS+ electronic programming guide. GUIDE PLUS+ provides all the programming data you’d associate with your local TV guide. Not only does GUIDE PLUS provide basic programming information such as date and time, it also provides data on the individual episodes (where available) such as the storyline and actors featured in that episode.

GUIDE PLUS+ interface

You can also use GUIDE PLUS+ to search for specific television shows, genres, or actors. Simply type in the show you’re interested in and GUIDE PLUS+ will show you all channels and times that show will appear for that week. With SCHEDULE+ you can then record all those episodes, or an entire season’s worth of programming. GUIDE PLUS+ is integrated directly into the TV player, so if you want to record a particular show, simply press the record button and the show you selected will be recorded to your hard drive based on a quality level you can predefine.

The ALL-IN-WONDER 9600 XT can also timeshift, just like a TiVo unit. Timeshifting allows you to pause live TV, step away from the TV to run errands, and then return without missing a minute of television programming. Just press the pause button on your REMOTE WONDER II unit while watching TV and the AIW 9600 XT will automatically save the data to your hard drive. You can then playback what you missed, and fast-forward through the commercials, or if you’d like, you can jump back to live TV.