New ATI Tuner Card.

[myth]

If you dont know what this is then you are missing out! So for the sake of all of yous that are cluless here is a pic of what I'm talking about!
Link to better pic..
http://img.hexus.net/v2/features/ati.../intro_big.jpg



Here is what some of you have missed...

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD04NzE=
http://www.ati.com/products/theater550/postlaunch.html
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD04Nzk=
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09...eater_550_pro/

This will be one of the best tunners out there! I am waiting for it to hit the shelfs... So, what do yous think of it? Will you be getting one? How much do you think they will cost? And yes thats a 16 meg SD chip for buffering on that card...

Edit! they will be out soon! "The NTSC version of the chip will ship next month, with the PAL version following in November. The chip is sampling now." Oh, joy!

"ATI said. A range of products from firms such as Gigabyte and Microstar are expected to appear on retail shelves within the next few weeks. Tul used the opportunity to already announce its product, named Powercolor Theater 550 Pro today."

Demo can de found here: http://www.ati.com/products/theater550/index.html

Suported software

MMC 9

http://www.ati.com/

InterVideo WinDVR and Home Theater Software Supports ATI THEATER 550 PRO!

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Press.jsp?mode=09-14-2004

Also CyberLinks PowerCinema!

http://www.gocyberlink.com/eng/press...iew.jsp?id=687

Edit: Just found out the price! "Mike Kreiten, ATI: THEATER 550 PRO products will be sold by our partners listed in the presentation. First configurations are our single tuner, PCI or PCI-E, optional Low-Profile boards. They will support FM radio and Video inputs. North American pricing will be 99$, European prices will be determined by our partners."

[unrealrocks]

Why does that tuner have a memory chip?

[myth]

Originally Posted by unrealrocks

Why does that tuner have a memory chip?

Its a 16 meg buffer.... I have read much about this breast! Belive me when I say this will be the best there is!

[menthel]

Myth, are you talking about the girl or the card? Never seen 16mb breast before!

[myth]

Yea... I am an idiot... and perhaps a perv...


First add in maker... Also that remote is herendous!

http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/theatrix.asp



Bigger pic here.. http://www.sapphiretech.com/awards/image/media_275.jpg

Edit: the next to reveal!

http://www.gecube.com/productCategory.php?proID=64



Found another! Power colors! I must say the red is nice!

http://www.tul.com.tw/event/theater5...ter550pro.html
http://www.overclocking.dk/news.asp?id=9972

[myth]

Ok, What gives? Do I smell or something? Is no one interested in this beast? Also no one seamed interested in the new AIW as well... Does anyone here at Hexus watch TV on there PC?

Well for me I cant wait to get my hands on this! I am trying to decide on software.. I most likly will go for win cinima..

[e.lectronick]

Does anybody know whether ATI's "Multimedia Center" video capture software will work with any of the 3rd party tv cards utilizing this chip? Or, will I have to wait for ATI's card to come out?
-Erik

[myth]

Originally Posted by e.lectronick

Does anybody know whether ATI's "Multimedia Center" video capture software will work with any of the 3rd party tv cards utilizing this chip? Or, will I have to wait for ATI's card to come out?
-Erik

OMG!!!!!

Some one actualy responded to my thread!


Atis new tunner will suport 3 different programs, the two listed above and the media center crap from ati... It dont mater who made the card... I dont know where, but I read that ati wont be making the cards them self... But this could be wrong... Oh, and welcome! Please if you have any questions about this card please ask me! I have become obsessed with it!

[BenW]

Just a quick question, is it a standard analogue tunner or does it have freeview?

[GBDarkAngel]

I would say it would support 3rd party cards

[myth]

Originally Posted by ben_wade

Just a quick question, is it a standard analogue tunner or does it have freeview?

Sorry, but in the 50 some articals I have read none of them mentioned free view... So my guess is no, However there is not much info out yet! I'll do some more searching!

[myth]

Originally Posted by PrivatePyle

a 16 meg breast

ill take two!

for the recored that was suposed to say "beast"

[Brillopad]

so what will make this card so good then is it just qualtiy reasons or does it contain special features

[myth]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

so what will make this card so good then is it just qualtiy reasons or does it contain special features

omg! all thoes links I posted... and you still are cluless! Well it has much better quaility! Suposidly the best there is!

• Hardware-accelerated video processing with a high-end 3D comb filter enhances fine-detail video fidelity.
• Advanced personal video recording capabilities and superior lower-bitrate MPEG-2 encoding enables more video content to be recorded to a single DVD-R/DVD-RW disk.
• Built-in digital audio capture enables perfectly synchronized video and audio
• Intelligent noise reduction algorithm cleans up snow and other unsightly artifacts from your video source with dedicated hardware, resulting in better looking captures that take up less disk space

Edit: oh, and welcome!

[menthel]

Us brits will want a freeview version for definate- digital tv recording, nice.