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."

Component inputs?

[PhotoBoy]

From this article it looks like the HDTV All-In-Wonder card won't have any useful video input sockets on the card and there's no mention of any external connector box.

I really want a decent means for connecting things like games consoles to my PC monitor. All the VGA boxes out there just give horrid blurry pictures because they double the scanlines of the picture. I wish someone would do a card with component or SCART inputs. :(

Undoubtedly the HDTV fuckers

[Bob Davis, Retired]

Undoubtedly the HDTV fuckers will change the speck in another week or so, like they have been doing for years and years now, rendering the card useless.

Fuckers.

Re:Linux w/o New ATI card Windows with it.

[dirty]

As much as I hate to rain on your Linux zealot parade, you do realize that TVTime uses the *DLLS* from dScaler, a Windows program, to provide the deinterlacing, right? Just because it's for Windows doesn't mean it's awful.

Re:Linux w/o New ATI card Windows with it.

[dirty]

In that case why bother mentioning the operating system at all? The oringal post was giving the impression that tvtime did something on linux that was not possible on windows. That is not true. dScaler was doing it on windows first, and a lot of other projects use dScaler to handle deinterlacing. And with good cause, dScaler is an amazing program, if you have the CPU power to throw at it.

Re:Video Input and Output

[the eric conspiracy]

You are living a couple of years in the past. There are satellite TV services (Voom.com) that broadcast 30+ HDTV channels, and HDTVs aplenty in the stores. Copy protection has also been standardized.

About the only reason to delay purchasing now is that prices are dropping fairly rapidly. Intel has entered the HDTV silicon market and is expected to drive costs of LCOS sets down by $1000 over the next year.

Re:ATi TV cards are soon to become useless

[Darkangael]

What about those of us who just want to watch a little TV on our computers? My monitor is actually larger than my TV at the moment (and it's only 15", sad huh?).

HDTV's main expense is the screen last I heard, so if you can watch it on your computer screen you have saved a significant amount of money no?

Re:Probably won't launch in the UK...

[D. Book]

You don't need the ATI card anyway. There's a UK-based outfit called Nebula Electronics who've been making HD-capable digital TV cards since late 2002, so you're all set for when HDTV broadcasts finally begin. The software is of reasonable quality and the support miles ahead of ATI. Here in Australia, where there's at least some HDTV broadcasts, we've been reaping the benefits of these (and competing DVB cards) for for quite some time now.

The ATI card wouldn't even work in the UK anyway, since it's based on the American ATSC standard. I'm not actually sure what all the hubbub over this card is about--Hauppauge already beat them to it. I guess ATI's size means they get the publicity by default.

In the UK you use the DVB standard, which is what much of the rest of the world has also settled on. This is the standard on which the Nebula and other cards are based.

200 Channels of High Definition CRAP...

[Anonymous Coward]

Every day I watch less and less TV. At one time I was excited about HDTV. But now I could care less. The content that is being delivered by the media outlets gets poorer by the day. Reality TV? Pro Sports? MTV? Talk shows? Soma for the masses. Numbs my brain.

The last thing I want to see is Andy Rooney, Michael Jackson, Queer Eye, or Oprah in high-definition.

And just for fun let me throw in a few of the predictable rants...
1) If it doesn't work on Linux it sucks.
2) If I could only get old Star Trek episodes in high-definition.
3) Can I get porn in high-definition?

Save your money and your brain...