Originally Posted by Octavean 
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Thank you for all your posts on this board & others. You are a very helpful person.
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I'm not sure whether I wish the new less than AIW a quick demise or if it's appearance is a sign of hope. I'm trying to put the scenario together in my head where a GPU die shink (which ATI has coming) might enable them enough room on the board (OR HOW ABOUT THE UNDER SIDE of the BOARD to put in dual digital (or at least ONE) 650 Pro or better Theatre chip with a REAL graphics card.
I live in WI and some days I'm $50 worth of Gas money away from driving up there and putting my car straight through whatever kind of office
they have up there. Every time I sign my emails off to them, I mention something about I think I have a better than 50/50 chance I'll get one jury member on there that's either dealt with MMC, NSP vs SP, T200 Unified Driver, or had troubles getting one of their products to work the way it was supposed to, or you know an Nvidia fanboy who would take pitty on me for that reason alone; and know why i snapped. Anyway if they had made an HD3870 A-I-W I might well have bought one.
I'm sitting despite my proclamation of a divorse I took that Abusive-battering-son-of-a-bi+ch spouse ATI back and now own three ATI TV Wonder 650 Combos. Thankfully the Vista TV Media Pack 2008 (Fiji) brought QAM to Vista (premium & Ultimate) because the so called "included" QAM support only available in Vista Only using CMC reminded me of an episode of "Married With Children" when Al Bundy would call out "...Assume Fox [TV] Family Viewing Positions!"
CMC - wasn't able to pull in half the channels that I later got with under Vista (with the TV Pack installed). I thought it was the quality of the signal of the TV RG Coaxial Cable, so I ran a single feed (not split and it was the only one plugged in to the ATSC (QAM) Tuner & it added about 5 digital music channels that was it, and same set up upon rescan it didn't detect them.
I had been thinking (Boy this TV wonder 650 combo is just $#1++y at doing QAM). But contrast that with my current setup using the SAME CARD but with VistaMC Ultimate; post Fiji installation. Everything is the same except (fiji) and the signal is split first with a two way splitter, off that to a fourway splitter, and off that to a five way splitter and then into the TV Wonder 650 and I get all the digital music channels, all the SD digital channels QAM64 and all the HD QAM 64 channels that my HDTV with QAM TV gets (Plus the TV Wonder gets two extra that the TV doesn't) in Vista with the TV Pack. The CMC tuning continues to be horrible and the worst part of it is, that the results are different each time.... I did notice that ATI's Website has what they are calling a "PATCH" for CMC 1.0.3202 (and many other versions)
Here's another thread about It:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33939643
The direct link (as with all ATI stuff seems to change so try searching there website's ATI section for
"CMC 1.0.4310" and look on the side menus (right side for me) for the actual download. It took me a while to find it myself b/c I expected it to be in the main part of the page not off on a side help topic.
It doesn't seem to be getting any big praise though so don't expect to much!! I haven't tried it but uninstalled CMC with my latest Vista update to Catalyst 9.2 (I used Driver Cleaner Pro) but I wasn't sure if it would remove CMC ...yup it does.
I'm currently searching for something that does QAM well in MCE2005 or XP home/pro. I wish I had bought AVermedia cards instead.