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List Price: $109.99
Our Price: $109.08
You Save: $ 0.91 (1%)
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Manufacturer: Diamond
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Diamond
EAN: 0757448005943
Feature: Attach your analog TV or HD antenna to watch, pause or record TV on your PC
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Label: Diamond
Manufacturer: Diamond
Model: TVW650PCIE
Publisher: Diamond
Studio: Diamond
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Features
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Attach your analog TV or HD antenna to watch, pause or record TV on your PC
Brilliant TV with 3D Comb Filter
ATI Catalyst Media Centerâ¿¢ offers DVD Playback and Authoring Software
Two built-in tuners offer combo tuning for Over-the-air Digital TV/HDTV (ATSC) ATSC digital TV tuner, Over-the-air/Cable Analog TV (NTSC), Clear-QAM (unscrambled) Digital HD Cable.
Video Processing Technology offers Hardware MPEG-2 compression, Motion Adaptive 3D Comb Filter, Automatic Color & Gain Control, Noise Reduction, Edge Enhancement.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The ATI TV Wonder HD 650 Combo loads your system with a complete set of media abilities, transforming your PC into the ultimate entertainment system. Attach your analog TV cable or an amplified high definition antenna1 and you can watch, pause, or record TV on your PC. TV is made brilliant with the 3D Comb Filter producing a sharp, true-to-life image. Hardware MPEG-2 compression Motion Adaptive 3D Comb Filter Automatic Color Control Automatic Gain Control Noise Reduction Edge Enhancement Full PVR and time shifting functionality DVD Playback Software DVD Authoring Software ATI Theater Video Converter System Requirements - Windows Vista 32-bit, 64-bit, XP, XP 64-bit, Media Center Edition, 512MB RAM, AMD Athlon or AMD Sempron, Intel Pentium 4 or Celeron (or compatible), Sound card and speakers, Direct X 9 compatible or better graphics card Cable TV signal or amplified antenna, 480MB free space, Single Available PCI-Express BUS Slot, 1 USB Port for IR Remote, Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or DVI-I Compatible or digital CRT display or High-resolution VGA monitor, Internet Connection
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Summary: Avoid
Comment: Buyer Beware! The updated drivers did not work. Customer service was rude. The user guide was incorrect. I returned this uselss product.
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Summary: research b4 review
Comment: people who don't know how to use hardware properly or are new to computers should do research before buying and reviewing. first of all, you never use software that comes with any hardware or any electronics. you should always download the drivers from the website of the manufacturer instead of the cd that comes with the item. as far as using a tv tuner card, u should be using Windows Media Center on Vista Ultimate on at least 2gigs of ram, or ubuntu Linux's MythTV if you don't know what those are i suggest you google before expressing your frustrations with a product. this is the best card out there, it doesn't get any better, and the company has been around for years. buy 4 four of em for maximum results.
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Summary: The worst technical support!! Don't buy this Card
Comment: I bought the ATI 650 tv tuner card because ATI was a well known name with a history of regular firmware updates. Despite upgrading to all the latest firmware after about 20-30 minutes the card simply "freezes" with no warning or error message. I am running Windows Ultimate Vista SP1 with no restrictions on CPU or hard-drive space and tons of extra computing capacity. I repeatedly sent emails to ATI technical support . Only guidance was to reinstall the drivers and it must be Microsoft Windows fault. lame . I would not recommend this card due to my experience and unhelpful technical support.
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Summary: Good Tuner, Very Poor Software
Comment: I decided to upgrade my tuner to get HDTV on my computer (Win XP sp2) so I purchased this tuner but was stopped right from the begining. Hardware installation was easy, then came the software. Software installation is a major problem with this device. The installation fails to completely install the parental controls and locks up. After the three finger salute (ctl-alt-del) to cancel the task, the software finishes the process. After rebooting the computer the software is installed. I go through the ati software setup but ati's own software doesn't recognize its own tuner installed. I tried installing the software updates from ati's own web site which also failed. No tv signals are received at all with the catalyst media center. When I shut the computer down I get an error message stating a catalyst dll initialization error. After calling tech support, they told me to use a third party software with the tuner and that a software update will be coming out soon. The tuner itself works and is recognized by the windows media center, which is what I was trying to get away from.
The picture quality is much improved over the old haupauge wintv tuner. It is unfortunate the software doesn't work properly. The only reason for the second star is for the working tuner seen with third party software.
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