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GeCube All-In-Wonder 9600XT 128M/TV/FM

Posted by timothy on from the eye-wonder dept.

An anonymous reader points to Hexus.net's review of ATi's newest All-In-Wonder product, writing "This looks like a rather nice product if you're running an XPC or similar." He excerpts from the review "It doesn't need an external power source, instead it's quite happy sucking from the AGP slot. The end result? Small form factor PC owners will quite happily be able to slot one into their boxes and run it without an issue. The one slot cooler and cool running RV360 core conspire to make sure heat won't be an issue in those enclosed spaces either."

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  1. Hardware encoding by kneecarrot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am still waiting for an ATI board with tv-tuner capability that offers hardware-based MPEG-2 encoding of the tv signal. A home theatre PC based on one of these cards will show 10 times the CPU usage and half the quality that a box based on a Hauppauge PVR-250 offers. No comparison, really.

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    I always save my last mod point to mod up a good troll. You people are too serious.

    1. Re:Hardware encoding by tsangc · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's called the ATI eHome Wonder, a MCE2004 class (Connexant Blackbird MPEG2) card:

      http://www.ati.com/products/ehome/

      Not an AIW Tuner+graphics combo, but an individual tuner. It's quite well done. Hardware seems okay and it's cheap.

  2. Recentley Purchased this, by glassjaw+rocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    My dad just recentley purchased one of these, and I put it in about 4 or 5 hours ago, the card works like a dream, the only problem is, he uses the computer for ebay.

    And that's all.

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    -gjr
  3. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try the Hauppauge PVR-250 or PVR-350 (or generic versions using the same chipset.) Linux support is fantastic (I should know, I'm the co-author of the ivtv driver) and much better than the ATI All-in-Wonder cards, if you actually want to capture MPEG video in addition to just video overlay.

  4. Re:Liking this for sure.... by sydsavage · · Score: 5, Funny
    The single life doesn't leave me with too deep of pockets these days

    If you think life is cheaper with a girlfriend, that might be why you don't have one.