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ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 7500
FlippedBit writes "ATi has released a very affordable All In Wonder product based on their Radeon 7500 chip. For a mere $200 smackers you can get decent 3D graphics, TV Tuner, TiVO functions, and a remote that will work from another room with no line of sight."
The biggest problem for me is that like all of the other "TiVo cards" for your PC, it will ONLY work with analog cable tv. There is no "IR Blaster" output that would allow me to use this with my digital cable box, or my digital satellite TV decoder.
These cards need to include an IR transmitter which I can use to change the damn channel on the decoder box automatically when I want to record a program. Without that, it's no better than the tuner-free video-in port on my PC now.
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The eye can only see fifty FPS of FILM, as film includes motion blur and the like, foolying your eyes into seeing many more virutal frames. Standard example: Take a camera that films at 2 frames per second. Film something passing from extreme left to extreme right over the space of a second; you'll get a blurred image of it passing. Now, write a 3d engine that will render at 2 frames per second. Have a 3d object pass from left to right over the space of a second. You'll get a static image of the object at one side of the screen for half a second, then a static image of the object on the other side of the screen for half a second. Looks much different, nicht wahr?
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