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."

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Flat Panel?

[SphericalCrusher]

Sorry if I sound like a flame bait, but why Flat Panel? Unless of course that does not mean LCD...

If you're going to go all out with a card like that for the reason it's used for, then you're going to need a more powerful monitor. Yes, you're going to need a CRT monitor. I'm sure a lot of Apple fans will flame me now for saying that, because of Apple's lovely LCD, but it's true. I love Apple though, but it would make me love them more if they started selling beautiful CRT monitors with their PowerPCs.

For this reason, CRT monitors have always had a higher refresh rate than that of the LCD monitor. Oh sure, 40 Frames per Second (FPS) higher than another monitor means nothing if you can save space, right? Wrong. Even the Macs I use at the studio seem to skip a little bit every now and then when I import and edit video, or do something that uses a lot of RAM. Yeah, it has a gig of RAM and an awesome video card, but it sucks that the monitor can only refresh with 60 frames per second with a $500 video card.

I still find it quite hilarious how all LCDs seem to lack behind when playing Quake 3 still.