Pros: Good value, all cables included. Easy install, good software. Cons: Requires fast system, drivers should also be updated.
If you're like me, working your way through school, you're computer is often more important that your TV. You spend quite a bit more time with it at least. So after finding myself in a new apartment where I was unfortunate enough to be without a...
Pros: Functions well as a TV and recorder, relatively cheap Cons: TV at full screen must be viewed several feet away; Drivers can be tricky
As a college student who is trying to save space in the dorm, I thought that a TV tuner card would be a cheap and easy way to get TV in my room without having to buy a seperate unit. Although the TV-wonder doesn't match the quality of a regular TV, it...
Pros: Fills a need where there previously was none; good price Cons: Nitpicky with system config. Memory hog.
When I owned an i486 system, I had purchased a Reveal TV-for-PC, at a significant cost. That card was worth hours of enjoyment. As time wore on the Reveal card did not work on any upgraded system. Time passed as it usually does, and the ATI TV-Wonder...
Pros: Beautiful picture, low system requirements, clean capturing, inexpensive, and versatile Cons: finicky installation, not enough documentation, and saves to proprietary format
I paid $44 for the Tv-wonder VE (value edition). Installation was simple, but there were things I had to figure out, like that I had to disable Norton Antivirus for the software to install, and what "composite video" really is. But I figured it out....
Pros: Complete Tv viewing/recording package. Cons: No FM. Recording requires a lot of CPU and hard drive.
This is TV card number 3 for me. First I had a Hauppauge WinTV. Their software was good, picture was bad. I switched to a Pinnacle PCTV Pro. There picture was good but their software and technical support is horrible. I played with switching between the...
Pros: Great quality, inexpensive Cons: Hard to install drivers
I was so excited when I got my new ATI TV Wonder card. I immediately took it out of the box and looked it over, then I decided to put it in my computer. The hardware installation was very easy, and the card was detected when I restarted my computer...
Pros: Inexpensive, nice smooth TV/Cable viewing on your PC Cons: Extremely tricky setup, I never got more than simple TV viewing to work
I bought this card to allow me to watch TV on my PC. Let's face it, watching TV on your computer is just neat. Unfortunately, simply watching TV is about as far as I got. Installation of this card turned out to be too much for me, and I'd like to...
Just like everyone else, I love Epinions. I really like the reviews from other people about certain products. I read pretty good reviews about the Dell Dimensions 8100 series computer, so I ended up buying one (and I love it!). Well I decided to buy a TV...
Pros: good quality picture (windowed), simple to use, affordable Cons: poor full screen quality, ATI slow to release updates, diagonal lines?!!!
Recently I hit on the idea of adding a TV tuner/capture card to my PC with the goal of creating Video-CD (VCD and SCVD) disks to view on my family room DVD player. There are a number of TV programs that I enjoy watching and keep tapes of. So, I thought,...
Pros: Really Good TV Tuner For the Money Cons: Can Slow Down GREATLY at times, Lack of ASF Codec, Installation Pretty Tedious
I got this for my birthday a few months ago. After a few tries to get it in correctly, i finally got it working without a hitch. The installation was a little tedious, especially since the drivers took so long to extract from CD. When I got it into...
Sigh...another disappointment by ATI. What looked like a very promising card turned out to be nothing but headaches for me. It's a great card when it works, but be ready for some serious hair pulling when things go wrong. I've been working with this card...
Pros: TV on PC, record video, video snapshots. New Drivers fixed incompatibility problems(April 10/03) Cons: Finicky drivers (resolved), GeForce incompatibility (resolved), XP unfriendly (resolved), Soundblaster Audigy unfriendly (resolved).
Here I sit so broken hearted, paid a dime and only.. oh wait, this is a hardware review -
**ATI has since fixed all problems, if you want to skip my rants head to bottom**
Like many people I bought the ATI TV Wonder PCI due to the...
Pros: a useful card for the money. Cons: Software installation is involved. Audio line out is noisy.
Update: May 12, 2003
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With the release of their new MMC 7.9 in April 2003, ATI has taken significant steps towards improving their software. I've bumped the rating from 2 to 4 stars for this reason.
Pros: The card comes at a very good price. Cons: Well, the card didn't work.
I decided to buy a TV card for my daughter's PC to allow her to watch TV in her room while saving space by not buying a separate TV. Well, that's what I intended to do. I saw the ATI TV Wonder VE card in the store for 49.99$ with a 10$ mail-in rebate. So...
Pros: Ok for watching TV, preview panels good Cons: bad for recording video
Had problems right out of the box. The video card configuration does not match the documentation - instead of the S-video connector on the card, it is now on a cable with the A/V jacks. CD was for Windows 95/98 only - not XP. Downloaded the lasted driver...
Quite simply, this card does not work well under Windows 2000, even with the latest drivers.
Most of the time, the TV player crashes while switching stations or while using the GUI. Hell, it crashes by itself after several minutes of watching...
I have the USB version of this wonder! My system is as follows: PII 450, 100mhz bus, 320 meg, 10 gig 7200 RPM HDD, 32 meg TNT card, Win ME and Win 2k pro. Not the fastest machine but well within the system requirements.
What I love about it:
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Pros: It's TV, Easy to use, Can easily capture movie from VCR, clear picture Cons: Hard to set-up, no drivers available, bad editor
The ATI TV Wonder, a wonderful blend of computers and TV, but is it really worth it? I'll start with Pro's. This is TV right on your desktop. There is nothing better than that, except maybe free cable. The TV quality on this is excellent. You can watch...
Pros: Great video quality. VCR+ feature. Cons: Requires internal installation
I originally bought the USB version of this card. But, being connected to the computer through the USB port, it did not have enough bandwidth for high quality video (plus the video and audio would get out of sync).
So I decided to trade it in for...
Pros: TV on the computer, MPEG Capture, Excellent Price Cons: Limited Compatibility, No Mpeg-2, Software could be better
The ATI TV Wonder is a PCI Add-on card for Windows 95 and 98. (It does not work with Windows 2000, an unfortunate fact I discovered after purchasing it.) It enables users to watch a television signal on their PCs, either enclosed within a window or...
Pros: Many neat features,online program guide Cons: Tricky installation, no sound
I have long envied my wife's ability to bring up TV on her Mac. Being a Windows user with a relatively new, powerful system, I looked forward to my TV Wonder USB tuner.
From a hardware point of view, installation was simple: I just had to...
Pros: I haven't had any pros yet Cons: The software, the installation, the card, the quality, the directions??
First card had no sound but installed fine and picture was good although it only got basic channels (none of the premium channels that I get on my regular TV)????
After I had major problems with the installation I bought a new sound card...
Pros: EXCELENT SOFTWARE BUNDLE,WINDOWS ME COMPATIBLE,EASY INSTALL,EXCELLENT VCR RECORDING QUALITY. Cons: PRODUCES ALOT OF HEAT (BETTER HAVE FANS!!),VERY PICKY ON CONFIGURATION WITH CERTAIN VIDEO CARDS.
GREAT LITTLE CARD IF YOUR LOOKING TO HAVE TV TUNING CAPABILITES ON A SYSTEM THAT ALREADY HAS A GREAT VIDEO CARD
AND ARE NOT LOOKING TO BUY ALL-IN-WONDER CARD. ONE MAJOR
ISSUE IS HEAT...BE PREPARED WITH CASE FANS...AND DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT...
Pros: Affordable Price Cons: Poor Drivers and Software
Horrible Tech Support
I purchased this product with the hope of being able to watch TV on my computer. I run Windows 2000 on my computer and use a Matrox Millennium G400 graphics card. Matrox still does not have a final version of the drivers for Windows 2000 and I was forced...
Pros: Easy to install, very simple software, LOADED with features. Cons: Does not work with windows XP!
Being the computer gadget man that I am, my eyes began to fix upon these so-called "TV-IN" cards for your computer. The thought of watching TV on my computer sounded like the ultimate way to become lazy. If I got this card I wouldn't have to reach up...
Pros: Cheap price. Works good with other software. Cons: ATI software and tech support.
Well I think you are aware of the problem that you are having with ATI TV wonder pci and Windows XP. The only thing that I got to say is that you (ATI) ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Ashamed that you make as many products you do and having the poor...
Pros: Works in Linux Cons: comes with "windows" only software
I switched my workstation over to linux and have been looking for a TV card for some time. I was talking to a friend of mine who also uses Linux and he said he was using this card with no problems. So I bought it and have it installed and working.
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Pros: Great picture when it does work. Cons: OS incompatibility
This card worked fine under Windows 98SE and windows 2000.
It does not work under Windows XP Prof and tech support from ATI is non existant.... It is a pain to install and the drivers don't install properly under Windows 98SE and Windows 2000, but once you figure out how to do manually, it works, just not under windows XP even with the drivers, which are the same drivers as windows 2000.
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