Tag : wonder ve, 703102 tv, inc 100, ati technologies
 |  Company : ATI List Price : $49.99 Amazon Price : Used Price : $39.99 Average customer review :  |
Accessoies
- KHypermedia - 25 x DVD+R - 4.7 GB 4x - spindle - storage media
- KHYPERMEDIA Spindle of 25 Blank 4x DVD-R Discs
Features
- Watch TV on your PC
- Get interactive TV listings with no monthly fee
- Capture motion video and still images
- Schedule and record TV programs
- Video Desktop included--display live TV signal as video wallpaper
Product Description
Turn your PC into an intelligent television! ATI-TV is the best way to get television and video into your PC and will change the way you watch TV forever. You'll be able to enable Web TV for Windows, zoom in the action, capture video from television shows or your camcorder, watch PC video clips and still enjoy fast graphics. Even better, ATI-TV will watch television for you, unattended!With the ATI-TV tuner board you can experience Web TV's interactive TV programming right on your desktop PC by receiving and displaying TV signal and other broadcast data over the web. Program your favorite shows, find out interesting TV facts and get instant tuning to TV shows. Watch TV silently on your PC by reading the closed captioning text. Plus, scroll back in the closed captioning, up to five minutes worth, to catch anything you missed during a break. Run TV in the background and use the 'Hot Words' feature to signal you when the specified 'Hot Word' is detected in a program's closed captioning. Even instruct your PC to record program transcripts - a great tool for journalists, stock watchers, researchers and students. Imagine recording documentaries or step-by-step instructions for building projects from a home improvement show or that tantalizing recipe from your favorite cooking show. ATI-TV scans through all available stations in seconds, letting you see 'what's on' at a glance. A mouse click takes you to the program that catches your eye.Customer reviews
a good card, video quality is ok. but the original software is trash 
It is a basic TV card only, no digital, no HD, mono sound only, and no hardware MPEG2 decoder. You CPU will be busy 30% off 1.8Ghz. It is just for standard free to air signals or basic cable services, of couse not for satellite signals
I had a hard time installing the original sofware time too. But when I switch to the famous freeware "Dscaler". It works like a charm. So the OEM software is real trash.
DScaler can not detect the turner chip by itself, You have to choose the turner "Philips 1236D input1 [ATSC/NTSC]" manually.
The video decoder is Bt878
In general, it is a good basic analogy-signal TV card, functions just like a basic TV.
great product 
i bought the card from best buy for $30, and it's the best money i've spent on my computer. the software is fully functional. the recordings are tv quality. The video quality is just like the tv in my living room, even in full screen mode. i have not experienced any of the problems other reviews mention. It truly is a wonderful product.
Pay more money and get something better 
I bought this hoping I'd be able to watch and record TV. This card has several bugs. One, the TV Listings are not accurate and I found myslef using Yahoo TV listings because they were always correct and I didn't want to miss any shows. the "recording" part was easy and the video looked OK but not great. However, once in a while the audio "pops" and the video "skips". Moreover, when I'm watching "TV", the audio frequently goes out of sync with the audio. I did a google search and found many other people had the same problem. I updated all of the drivers and changed the sound card and nothing worked. Strangely, if the audio is out of sync and I press the "record" button, all recorded video is IN-sync. Anyway, don't buy it. Get something more expesive and save yourself a hassle.
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first of all, (...)it doesn't even automatically set the system audio so you can record TV WITH SOUND, after a few runs, it just blanly fails to start and say you have to reboot!!
the hardware is buggy too, I can watch TV ok, but when I record, the recorded video has a terrible squeak like "ssssssssssssss", drives you nuts, my system had no problem with recording whatsoever before.
Most annoying is their unfriendly tech support, it's in Canada, man, I spent more money calling to Canada trying to fix a crap I for which paid $$$ to ATI , and those jerks in there are like it's not their business and treat you like school kids.
if you want to call 1800, good, 20$ bucks or 2$ a minute, nice, aren't they saying: " these craps we sell are not really going to work, and if they don't work, it should be that way and you should pay extra $$$ to have a WORKING one------ by figuring it out yourself after tolerating unfriendly jerks"
don't ever buy any ATI stuff again, it's not money, it just feels too bad. I have a radeon 9000, it keeps flicking when I play 3D games,
what a piece of junk
Add me to the list of people who think this thing stinks. I've got a 2.6 ghz dimension 4600 w/ 800 mhz fsb, 768 ram and a 120 gb hard drive...and this thing manages to crash my system every time. Oh yeah a top of the line ATI graphics card too...
I don't know what the problem is, but the program freezes every time I start it up. It asks me to re-install the software each time I reboot the computer. Oh the CD it came with didn't even work either, it had junk stuck all over it and it wouldn't read. I downloaded the drivers and software but that didn't work either. It just keeps freezing.
On top of this, the one time I actually got it to work (for 30 seconds or so), the picture was grainy and horrible, and there were popping noises coming from the speakers.
From the gunk stuck on the CD I think they might have sold me a refurb or something...I'm about to call tech support and go nuts.
