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ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner Card

PCI - NTSC - MPN: 100703147 See Product Details

Product Details of ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner Card

Description

TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION is the leading-edge PC stereo TV-tuner and video capture solution. Simply install the card and user-friendly software, then connect your TV cable to the TV tuner card. Then sit back and enjoy up to 125 channels of high-quality television on your desktop PC. Also enjoy PC freedom to control your applications with the click of a button with the wireless handheld remote control. Watch TV, DVDs*, search TV channels and control gaming features all from the comfort of your couch or from another room. This product also accepts S-video and composite input and audio input. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it! * Requires optional DVD playback software

Quick Glance

Video Standard: NTSC (analog), PAL (analog)

Slot/Port Type: PCI

Summary

Product Title: ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner Card

Manufacturer: ATI

Power Score: 2.5 | 9 Reviews

Device Type and Features

Video Standard Supported: NTSC (analog), PAL (analog)

Compatibility

Slot/Port Type: PCI

Warranty

Warranty Information: 3 Year Limited

More Info

URL: Manufacturer Link

Additional Specifications

Frequency Band: Stereo TV for your PC: Scan channels easily with a built-in 125-channel TV tuner featuring the user-friendly GUIDE Plus+ Interactive TV Guide and channel preview software that lets you see what's on at a glance Watch TV in silence with closed captioning featuring HOTWORDS Watch TV on your PC monitor on a full screen or in a window while you work in other applications or surfing the net using THRUVIEW** Bolstered Business/Education Presentation Tool: Create a "TV magazine" with saved images and text from selected TV programs - use the images to enhance your presentations, e-mails, Websites and other projects Automatically record program transcripts for business or school projects Use the HOTWORDS real-time word notification feature to let you know when words or phrases are detected - a great tool for journalists, investors, students or sports fans Wireless remote that works through walls: Wireless remote that operates using Radio Frequency, eliminating the need to point the remote at the receiver Works through walls, enabling you to roam the room, house, stage, or classroom Easy set up of receiver as it simply plugs into any available USB port in your PC Quick installation with automatic driver detection Offers mouse and application control, no matter what graphics are on-board including ATI MULITIMEDIA CENTER Full control of your multimedia options: The remote control controls your mouse pointer and cursor movements easily with its large thumb pad One button access to launch your web browser, media library, TV and DVD* features Program a zoom in button, still capture button or a favorite TV channel with one of the six programmable alpha keys provided for custom configuration Easy to use with superior remote features including volume, mute, numeric selection, channel up/down keys, fast forward and reverse buttons Experience PC freedom: The remote control provides you the freedom to remotely move PowerPoint presentations forward or backward, launch our multimedia demonstrations and web browser. Interact with your audience not your PC Control your PC CD player or MP3 music collection from anywhere in the house Fast forward to select sections of your favorite DVDs* and CDs Operate your TV WONDER PRO features from the comfort of your couch instead of sitting in front of your PC Control your favorite audio and video programs with downloadable plug-ins * Requires optional DVD playback software ** Requires ATI RADEON Series graphics board Operating Systems: Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows 98/98SE* *Windows Me drivers can be installed on Windows 98/98SE

Product Series: PRO

Audio Line In: Yes

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Reviews on ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner Card

  • 3
  By member: bgfan - Mar 23, 2005

ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner...

Strengths: Reasonable price. Decent live video and recording quality. Convenient remote control.

Weakness: CPU intensive. Included software suite is buggy and with limited features.

This product is satisfactory as an occasional TV and personal video recorder on a spare computer. The picture quality is very good. Using the highest resolution recording mode, the DVD video looks fine even on my 50 inch TV. The remote control works just fine. However, if you really need to multitask on your computer while watching TV, a TV card using hardware encoding would be a better choice....

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  • 2
  By member: msuguy71 - Dec 8, 2004

ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner...

Strengths: Good picture, nice breakout box for easy accessory hookup, RF remote

Weakness: Buggy software, no multi-monitor support, poor tech support, no hardware encoder

I don't normally write reviews of products I have purchased but people need to know the experiences that other people have with the ATI TV Wonder Pro Remote Control edition so they can make an informed decision. I purchased this product after happily using the Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP until my pup ate the remote. I had left ATI after using their ATI TV Wonder VE and being unhappy with their...

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  • 2
  By member: SquirrelWorks - Nov 9, 2004

ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner...

Strengths: Excellent “live” video quality, very good recording quality, audio/video break-out box, remote control.

Weakness: Compatibility issues w/ P4 HyperThreading, random picture freezes, mediocre and bloated application design, software mpeg encoder.

This seems to be a recurring problem w/ ATI hardware, lots of potential, but always dragged down to mediocrity by poor drivers, compatibility issues, and uninspired applications. ATI is well aware of incompatibility issues w/ this card and Pentium 4 Hyperthreading, yet does nothing to warn customers. With HT enabled, the card will hang within minutes of use. Microsoft has provided a hotfix for XP...

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  • 1
  By member: Scottbus - Nov 14, 2004

ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner...

Strengths: Low Price

Weakness: Will not work with RealTek audio chip, common on NForce 2 based motherboards.

This product seems to have issues with RealTek audio chips. This audio chip seems to be very common on NForce 2 chipset mobos, a very popular chipset for AMD processors. I've got 2 Mobo's (Shuttle and Asus) with the Nforce 2 and Realtek chips,it doesn't work with either one. ATI's software, specifically the TV/VCR crashs when faced with RealTek Audio. I bought this card for video capture of old...

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  • 1
  By member: chonkey - Jan 18, 2005

ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner...

Strengths: nice accessory for plugging in a dvd player or video game console. it lets me play directly onto my computer while saving space. remote is conveniet. lets u control many different progs like winamp

Weakness: terrible compatibility issues. all new intel d915 boards with integrated realtek sound have an issue while trying to do initial setup. it crashes and you can't get around it to jus get it to run. cont-

i had to get a friend's sound card to complete that initial setup to just get it working. another problem with their video mode. it has a half a second lag when playing media through the analog which makes playing video games impossible. i had to use a 3rd party prog jus to play them. i use intervideo windvr3 and it seems to work well. another issue is lack of visual clarity. i was disappointed...

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  • 3
  By member: shelbywrc - Apr 1, 2004

ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner...

Strengths: East to install and use.Remote control for the mouse function is neat and does become useful at times.

Weakness: picture quality leaves a little to be desired

While most functions are intuitive and easy to program there are some displays that cannot be changed,nor is there any info on what they mean or how to change/program them.I have not use the recording features yet,but they seem simple enough.It could have came with FM also.

  • 4
  By member: pjsweat1 - Aug 24, 2004

ATI TV WONDER PRO REMOTE CONTROL EDITION TV Tuner...

Strengths: The software interface makes it easy to use. It's great because it has a build in channel guide.

Weakness: I haven't found any yet, the only thing is the tool bar it puts on the side of your desktop, but it is neccessary.

I've always trusted the ATi brand for it's quality and attention to detail. The price is right, especially for what you get. It's the perfect device to take up a PCI slot.

  • 3
  By member: kcorr - Feb 5, 2006

brief moments of despair

Strengths: cost $50 at best buy.

Weakness: Just to capture video from a camcorder one is required to set up the tv function. This requires a coax cable connection.

I got this with a narrow goal in mind...to transfer video from camcorder to hard disk. So I havent any experience good or bad with the rest of the functionality, except that it was hard to "weed through" all of the other functionality to finally find the function that records video. For a good while I had to stay miserable until I downloaded the instruction manual and found out that the capture...

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  • 4
  By member: Wildcard500 - Sep 30, 2006

AIT Wonder Pro card

Strengths: Very good picture, Mpeg-2, cheap

Weakness: Software

Good points about this card 1.cheap price 2.high quality hardware 3.Very good picture or high quality video 4.Has S-Video, and RCA in puts jacks (good for inputting home movies you would make with a camcorder that use these kind of jacks.) 5.Recording quality, can be set to Mpeg-2, after recording you could burn the mpeg-2 to a DVD disk, or Author it then burn it to a DVD. Bad points about this...

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