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Anonymous at 02:46pm 02/1/2006
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i bought windows media edition, works well with my x800 aiw
is there a way to display dvd/tv video on the tv and still use the
computer?
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Tarx (View my Profile) at 09:07pm 01/31/2006
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My original solution with the Matrox G450 (that has good composite
TV out) and the TV Wonder PCI card. Guess what - the Matrox card
does not work with overlays from ATI TV card...
So I got the 9600AIW - and used that with my monitor for a while. It
worked fairly well, but I also kept it streamlined (i.e. kept ATI
software to a minimum).
Then I moved it to be HTPC, and try to use it the way ATI thinks is
best - it was annoying and various apps would occassionaly crash
(MMC, remote, etc.). I also tried adding the TV wonder PCI card (to
get two independent channels) but ran into even more unstability, so
took that out...
So my plan is to sell the AIW card and get a seperate TV card (my
ATI TV wonder card is too limited - and I keep it with my main
machine anyway for TV in a window with only the TV app installed)
& a graphic card with good video out (no longer have the Matrox,
so any suggestions?).
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DigitalDivine at 05:54pm 01/31/2006
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very sexy pictures...
for the life of me, i can't seem to get the multimedia center to
work properly on my computer no matter what i do. (i have a 9800aiw)
i finally gave up on it and used windvr.
but i gotta say, the aiw isn't really what it's cracked up to be.
sure the integreated tv tuner is great, but the problem is that you
can't upgrade... or loose your tv tuning capability. ati's software
is still left to be something desired, and i don't see any
improvement after 2+ years of having an aiw, and still the same
issue with mmc crashing.
i'd rather have the hdtv wonder for $100, and buy a separate video
card over this at this point in time.
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Anonymous at 02:02pm 01/31/2006
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would be nice to have one nvidia card in the mix.
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joe mamma at 12:28pm 01/31/2006
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Wow, quick response! I have to say, I'm impressed. Great job with
the article.
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Anonymous at 09:09am 01/31/2006
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"While ATI’s THEATER 200 chip delivers good image quality, its
feature set is quickly becoming dated. The chip doesn’t provide
MPEG-2 encoding,"
can Avivo do mpeg-2 encoding?
For the theater 550 chip, maybe its to expensive to put it onbord
the AIW cards
Maybe next the generation cards and die shrink we'll see that added
to AIW's
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Anonymous at 10:32am 01/31/2006
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Yeah a 2 way splitter removes 3.5 dB
a coupler, known as an F81, loses 1dB
a tap however, looks like a splitter, loses 1 dB on the through
side, but loses more dB on the tap side. These taps are rated and
marked on the devices, they usually range from 6dB to 30dB
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Anonymous at 04:47am 01/31/2006
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I have a slightly older AIW card.
Ignoring the game performance that the X1900 has plenty of (my
card's 3DMark2006 score is below 500), I wish my AIW functions for
my card would work as well as mentioned here.
Drivers are all the latest (and are cleaned).
The quality of the channel is not as high when using antenna
compared to when viewed directly on the TV (or recorded on the VCR).
ATI recommends a powered antenna.
The sound would sometimes start having lots of noise. Rebooting
fixes that.
The fileplayer is very basic so I replaced that with cyberlinkDVD.
That worked ok, but the remote isn't too friendly with it in that
the programable buttons work ok, but you can't choose any key you
want for them, only from a specific (short) list.
The remote works ok, but is somewhat frustrating (this is the
original remote, which is slightly different than the remote plus
that the X1900 AIW card has).
The remote software would periodically just abort (restarting the
software works, but this involves using a mouse or keyboard).
For my HTPC, I'm not overly thrilled about the AIW...
Anyway, I'd be curious to know how this solution works compared to
the Windows XP Media OS.
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GX-Brandon at 03:58am 01/31/2006
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Ack, I forgot to mention that in the conclusion! My theory is that
we won't see an AIW X1900 XT card, simply because ATI's MM team has
been so adamant about single-slot in the past. I have a feeling
unless they can figure out a way to do a single-slot design on the
X1900 XT that this may end up being the fastest AIW part. I'll add
that to the conclusion.
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