ATI 100-703147 Customer reviews
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Brand: ATI
Model: 100-703147
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ATI 100-703147 Review by Santosh Dawara "techie" (Issaquah, WA USA)
Compatibility:
I already have a ATI x300 PCI Express Graphics card installed on my PC. My PC detected the ATI TV Wonder on the first try. There were no conflicts or detection problems. Installation of the drivers followed, I had the software working in under 30 minutes.
The ATI TV Wonder:
I watch TV regularly, no issues with the TV signal capturing and rendering technology. The Images are clear and get 4 stars. However, the sound is piped from the TV Tuner to the onboard sound-card via the mic-input. Apart from the fact that it uses up my mic-in port, I wonder if this is an optimal solution for assuring the best sound output. There isn't an alternative setup that I can try to test out my theory. I still have to test the card for general video capture. I appreciate the ability to pre-set recordings.
Software:
The Software that came on the disk had some conflict with the ATI software that I already had on my desktop. After a little digging around, I discovered that the software I wanted to install - "ATI Control Panel", was used by both my ATI cards and that there was a newer version installed on my Desktop. This was preventing the installation of the package that came on the CD. To the best of my understanding, this was the root of the problem.
I then uninstalled all ATI software from my PC. Downloaded the latest from the ATI website, then proceeded to install them on my PC. Within minutes of downloading them, I had everything up and running.
The ATI TV application has some features worth mentioning. The Auto-Tuning is a snap, there are facilities for retrieving TV schedules over the internet. There is also a feature to help channel-surf the 125 channels at a go.
The Remote:
I have stopped using the remote since I have my cable-box tune into the various channels. However, the remote is a good add-on if your planning to use the tuner on the card. I would give the remote 3 stars, because the buttons feel and appear cheap. The layout of the remote is easy to navigate.
Overall:
The strengths of the TV Tuner card in core functionality merits 4 stars.
ATI 100-703147 Review by R. Dowsing
After having sworn off ATI products a few years ago, I was pleasantly surprised with this. I had returned a ADS DVD Express, which didn't work for me and found that some other people had similar problems with it too. I paid $20 more and took the ATI card after hearing some good things about it.
I had no problems with the installation on an XP Pro machine, and I have an Nvidia Ti4200 video card. I just installed the driver and the WMEncoder software from the ATI site, shut down the PC, added the card and everything got detected properly on bootup. I then installed the MMC software. I use NeroVision Express 3 for VHS video capture and everything works great. I'm very happy with this after my previous experience with the other capture device. I've yet to check out the other features in depth, but I've tested them and they work.
ATI 100-703147 Review by Wes D (Sunny Florida)
I picked this up yesterday at CompUsa. I have a Dell 8200 2.53p4, 512 meg ram, ATI Radeon 9200 256 mg video card, and 19" digital lcd monitor, Win XP home.
Installed tuner card into computer and installed software. Right at the end of software installation there was an error said "cannot install" and it rebooted. The computer came back up and much to my surpise everything worked perfectly. Using coaxial cable has a little noise on the screen, but I turned it to 16:9 and checked some kind of "signal cleanup" box, and the picture cleared up and it looks very similar to HDTV.
I've always had excellent luck with ATI products.
The PVR feature and the remote both work well. The video looks great in both full screen and small box, and the thruview feature is awesome! Now I can do development and watch "king of the Hill" at the same time.
If I have any problems I will post a new review. So far, I'd say 5 stars except for the installation snafus.
I've always had excellent experiences with all my ATI products.
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ATI Technologies TV Wonder Pro Remote Control PCI NTSC (100-703147):: Technical Details
- Feature-rich Digital VCR
- Bolstered Business/Education Presentation Tool
- Wireless remote that works through walls
- Create a “TV magazine” with saved images and text from selected TV programs
- Stereo TV for your PC
- Brand: ATI
- Model: 100-703147
- Product Type: Personal Computers
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