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ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 9700 Pro

Posted by timothy on from the sound-of-expiring-ndas dept.

FlippedBit writes "ATi has taken the wraps off their latest Swiss Army Knife 3D Graphics Card with TV Tuner and Remote Control capabilities, that rival most discrete solutions. The All In Wonder Radeon 9700Pro packs a ton of A/V features and is driven by their new R300 VPU. HotHardware has a look at this new beast and all its bells and whistles, right here."

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  1. Fantastic! by cybercomm · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is great progress for ATI, especially considering the weakness of it's main competitior in "home cinema" field...

    Now if they could just get some **decent** drivers to go with this card (catalyst is a great step towards the goal, dont get me wrong, but ATI has always been a little weak in driver field)

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  2. more reviews here... by Maditude · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anandtech has a review and TechReport as well .

  3. Re:So where's the Mac version? by benh57 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, you're in luck. (maybe). According to Think Secret, ATI is developing an All-In-Wonder card for the mac.

  4. Re:Yep by chefren · · Score: 5, Informative

    The DRI-project have 3d-support available in CVS and binary snapshots with semi-friendly installers available. I'm using a snapshot now. Remember that this is not yet stable code (whatever that means). Look for 'r200' snapshots on their download page.

  5. Re:Yep by chefren · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it means that if I leave an OpenGL screensaver running while going away for a few hours, I am greeted by the lilo boot menu (i have no timeout) when I come back. Nothing in the logs, the machine just reboots it seems. Also using Xv in mplayer results in a black box that won't go away until I start another Xv app, like xawtv which works well. If you just need Xv, go for the gatos project instead (better Xv, no 3d).

  6. Re:Yep by nihilogos · · Score: 3, Informative

    What ever happened to that project funded by the weather channel to make a DRI driver? When its done is anyone even going to be buying these cards anymore?

    You can download the source for a beta here. The cvs files are updates regularly. I think there is a binary somewhere on the Tungsten Graphics site.

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  7. Re:So where's the Mac version? Just try ! by nick-less · · Score: 3, Informative

    Acording to this Site flashing a new BIOS to use PC cards in a Mac is mostly harmless (tried it myself with geforce)

  8. You're better off with a TV Wonder by Control-Z · · Score: 2, Informative


    I had the original AIW card. It was nice for a while, but when i upgraded to a GF4 4200 I had to give up my TV/PVR capabilities too. So I'd suggest getting an ATI TV Wonder so you can painlessly upgrade your video card later. I still haven't got around to buying a TV Wonder so I can start recording shows on my computer again.

    Oh, and don't get the TV Wonder VE unless you don't want stereo sound.