Fanbanlo, some of these questions were already addressed and some were even answered,….somewhat,…
Originally Posted by Fanbanlo Will there be an ATI Catalyst Media Center™ upgrade available for 550 user? Will it be free? or how much?
CMC will supposedly work with the T550P but how it is released other then with T650P cards has not yet been detailed.
Originally Posted by Fanbanlo Will a X1x00 be required to use the Avivo feature in CMC?
It has already been explained that a T650P will allow the user to basically take advantage of the full feature set of CMC. So, no X1000 family product is necessary.
Originally Posted by Fanbanlo When will Avivo uses ATI hardware to encode?
This hasn’t been covered yet but the AVIVO transcode utility is already accessible to some non-X1000 family ATI customers in MCE 2K5. The AVIVO transcode utility is also part of CMC and with the full feature set being available to T650P users its clear that the X1000 only mantra has already been broken. How pervasive this change in thinking is with respect to the AVIVO feature set is unknow,…
Originally Posted by Fanbanlo Will it be a slow .NET program like CCC?
Given ATI’s relationship with Microsoft its not really surprising to see another .net app out of them. However, there is still the possibility that CMC is simply a re-badge app,…
Either way, I don’t think ATI will be too forthcoming in this respect,…as well as some other respects,..