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HDTV On Your PC - ATi's HDTV Wonder
Spinnerbait writes "ATi is getting their new High Def capable HDTV Wonder ready for release soon and there is a preview of the card over at HotHardware. It will be an add-in PCI card that will be bundled with their All In Wonder cards initially and eventually be sold as a stand alone product. High Def on a nice 23" Flat Panel... time to drool."
Will you be able to see pixel for pixel high res?
It seems to me that this shouldnt be to difficult, technically speaking, considering the 1080 pixel resolution is well within that normally supported on a PC monitor.
....mmmmm...Hi-Def TV....yummy!
I cant wait to get Hi-Def on my TV, have seen it before and it is the ultimate in geek-drool fest!
Post apocalyptic gaming goodness
Sure if you want to run windows...
I want My HD MythTV...
If it doesn't work with linux, then I don't give a shit one way or the other.
And like most of the All-in-Wonder cards, I doubt half the features will work correctly if at all.
Otherwise I would give up my ancient geforce2 card in a second, but for right now I have no reason to. My 19 inch monitor with my ATI wonder VE tv capture card works great for me right now.
Oh, BTW I use the Nintendo Game cube via the composite input on my ATI card. If you want to play games and get a useable picture get a decent program, like TVTIME. Most tv capture programs for windows that I've seen in stores looks like crap on a monitor, get something that does anti-aliasing properly. Thank god for Free software.
There have been PCI HDTV cards for years that receive OTA HD. Even a cheap one that only works in Linux!
Why is this card better than something like Hauppauge's WinTV-HD? At least the Hauppauge has component outputs standard. I'm guessing it's the price as the Hauppauge isn't cheap. BTW, there's a few more HDTV cards available at places like The Digital Connection.