ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon
With the release of its Radeon chipset, ATI has become a serious contender
for the top graphics card currently available. Selling for around $270
online, the AiW Radeon sports a cable-ready tuner, an interactive program
guide, time-shifted recording capabilities (like TiVo/ReplayTV), and the
best DVD playback we have seen from any video card to date. To top it all
off, the Radeon chipset has some serious 3D muscle and full DirectX 8
support for stunning visuals and great gaming performance.
For a review of the card,
http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/reviews/story/0,3679,11755,00.html
From the sounds of that, the Radeon card has it's own TV Tuner that seems
to be pretty good, and an excellent DVD playback -- would you really need
both? I just got the e-mail with the above info in it about 1/2 hour
before I got this post. :)
At 09:17 PM 12/5/00, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I am going to be getting a new Dell Dimension 4100 computer shortly and
>would like to have an ATI Radeon 32M DDR video card installed in it. I also
>have an ATI TV Wonder card at present in my current system, and would like
>to transfer that into my new PC as well. I understand however, that there
>may be an incompatibility here, in that the software called Multimedia
>Center that comes with the Radeon is incompatible with the TV Wonder
>drivers. The ATI website says the fix is to uninstall the Multimedia Center
>and reinstall the TV Wonder driver if you want to use the TV tuner.
>
>My questions are:
>
>Can you install the individual components of the Multimedia Center so as to
>avoid the TV Tuner component?
>
>If I uninstall the Multimedia Center altogether so that I can use the TV
>tuner, what do I lose from the overall functionality? In particular, I want
>to add a DVD Drive, so I want to know if disabling the Multimedia Center
>will affect the playback of DVD's. I would hate to sacrifice DVD's for the
>TV or vice versa.
>
>Does anyone have a Radeon with the Multimedia Center version 7 that can shed
>some light on just what the program does, and what is the functionality of
>the Radeon card with respect to DVDs if it is not installed, etc.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Michael
>
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