ATI ditch AIW Project?

[ANTant]

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"In Europe ATI have cut loose their combined graphics card and tuner All-In-Wonder product
line..."

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[J. Clarke]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6247

"In Europe ATI have cut loose their combined graphics card and tuner
All-In-Wonder product line..."

About time. It was a good idea once, but between not keeping a current
graphics chip on it and no high definition and everybody going to
cable/satellite where the tuner is on a different box it isn't really all
that useful a product anymore.

Now if they had gone after it aggressively, keeping the technology cutting
edge . . .

 

[Danny G.]

About time. It was a good idea once, but between not keeping a current
graphics chip on it and no high definition and everybody going to
cable/satellite where the tuner is on a different box it isn't really all
that useful a product anymore.

The MMC TV setup wizzard finds 71 (including HD) stations brodcasting
OTA here. Signal strength typically 95 - 99%.

 

[J. Clarke]

The MMC TV setup wizzard finds 71 (including HD) stations brodcasting
OTA here. Signal strength typically 95 - 99%.

Well that's nice but it doesn't alter anything. There is no HD tuner on the
All-In-Wonder so any HD stations you are picking up are coming through a
second board. Further, regardless of what is happening OTA, most people
are on cable today--when I take a walk around the neighborhood, which is
hardly a bastion of high tech, I see more satellite dishes than OTA
antennae.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, John.

Further, regardless of what is happening OTA, most people
are on cable today--when I take a walk around the neighborhood, which is
hardly a bastion of high tech, I see more satellite dishes than OTA
antennae.

Not necessarily a true indication. My AIW 9600 (and predecessors) has been
connected for over 10 years to the omnidirectional TV antenna inside my
attic. It's a white disk that looks something like a very large pizza,
about 2" high at the edges and maybe 6" thick in the middle. My new home
was pre-wired for cable, but I cut those coax cables in the attic and
attached them to that antenna. Now I can get Over-The-Air TV reception in 5
rooms. My AIW has always played OTA TV through my computer, using one of
those connections.

We live between Austin and San Antonio, Texas, about 20 and 50 miles from
those stations. We receive all the broadcasts from those cities, and a
dozen channels are acceptable; most are as strong as on our neighbors' cable
systems. We don't get CNN or HBO, of course, but we don't miss them, even
after having been on cable for 20 years in our former homes.

My main point is that if you take a walk around our neighborhood, you might
count us as a non-antenna home, and you would be mistaken.

I did get cable recently, but ONLY to replace ADSL with this (theoretically)
6 MB/s Internet connection. No TV via this cable.

And I should mention that I've not been able to watch TV on my computer for
the past year or so, but that is because ATI has not produced MMC drivers
that I can use with WinXP x64 or with Windows Vista. Now, even my old
faithful 32-bit WinXP Pro SP2 refuses to play TV with my AIW 9600, saying
that it "cannot initialize video", or some such. And I'm too disgusted with
ATI to try to fix it - AGAIN! :>(

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA [RC]
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(currently running Windows Mail 7 in Vista x64 Build 5472)

Well that's nice but it doesn't alter anything. There is no HD tuner on
the
All-In-Wonder so any HD stations you are picking up are coming through a
second board. Further, regardless of what is happening OTA, most people
are on cable today--when I take a walk around the neighborhood, which is
hardly a bastion of high tech, I see more satellite dishes than OTA
antennae.

 

[J. Clarke]

Hi, John.


Not necessarily a true indication. My AIW 9600 (and predecessors) has
been connected for over 10 years to the omnidirectional TV antenna inside
my
attic.

In this neighborhood is is a very true indication--the entire subdivision
was built by the same builder in a short period of time and all houses in
it have foil vapor barriers in the walls that render indoor antennae
worthless.

It's a white disk that looks something like a very large pizza,
about 2" high at the edges and maybe 6" thick in the middle.

In this area you cannot pick up HD broadcasts with such an antenna even on a
50 foot mast.

My new home
was pre-wired for cable, but I cut those coax cables in the attic and
attached them to that antenna. Now I can get Over-The-Air TV reception in
5
rooms. My AIW has always played OTA TV through my computer, using one of
those connections.

Not HD it didn't.

We live between Austin and San Antonio, Texas, about 20 and 50 miles from
those stations. We receive all the broadcasts from those cities, and a
dozen channels are acceptable; most are as strong as on our neighbors'
cable
systems. We don't get CNN or HBO, of course, but we don't miss them, even
after having been on cable for 20 years in our former homes.

Well that's nice, but so what?

My main point is that if you take a walk around our neighborhood, you
might count us as a non-antenna home, and you would be mistaken.

This is not your neighborhood.

I did get cable recently, but ONLY to replace ADSL with this
(theoretically)
6 MB/s Internet connection. No TV via this cable.

And I should mention that I've not been able to watch TV on my computer
for the past year or so, but that is because ATI has not produced MMC
drivers
that I can use with WinXP x64 or with Windows Vista.

I fail to see your point. In any case, why anyone would be running a beta
OS on their only machine is beyond me.

Now, even my old
faithful 32-bit WinXP Pro SP2 refuses to play TV with my AIW 9600, saying
that it "cannot initialize video", or some such. And I'm too disgusted
with
ATI to try to fix it - AGAIN! :>(

Hence the demise of the AIW.