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Anonymous   07-25-2001 at 09:09:38 PM

I have a question about being able to have two video cards in my system at the same time. I'm off to college this fall and i want to get a TV tuner, but the best one out seems to be the on on the All in Wonder Radeon card. I heard that you could choose to either boot up with your PCI or AGP vid card in your BOIS. I have the Abit VT6X4, which is the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset, does that mobo have that capability? And is that a viable option for a TV tuner card? Abit's tech support isn't much help so i was hoping all could.

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Stick_e_Mouse   07-25-2001 at 09:30:34 PM
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I am almost certan it does.

If your not using Windoze 2k, you might look at ATI's TV-Wonder (not the Value Edition).

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Anonymous   07-25-2001 at 09:33:36 PM
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I have the Hauppauge Win TV Go right now, and the picture quality isn't very good. I previously had the Ati TV Wonder VE, and that had very unstable drivers, is the non value edition very different?

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Stick_e_Mouse   07-25-2001 at 09:55:18 PM
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As of right now, there is no TV Tuner that has better or equal picture quality to that of a real home television.
Im not sure about the picture quality between the VE and 'regular' Tv-wonder, but the main difference is that the regular TV wonder has an S-Video input and can compress into MPEG1. In terms of drivers, ATI had always made crappy and late drivers.

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Anonymous   07-27-2001 at 02:51:26 PM
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got any evidence to back up that claim? it's a subjective thing anyway...as I think my AIW delivers as good a picture as my TV from the same cable source. As for ATI's driver support, since the 9th Nov 2000 they have released 28 Win98/Me driver updates, only half of which were crap ;-)

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Stick_e_Mouse   07-27-2001 at 10:04:26 PM
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I had a somewhat limited amount of tuners to test...I personally own a cheap TView 99...friends of mine has the Tv-wonder (non VE)...also the USB edition...and I have also seen the Hauppauge WinTV-Go....and yes, non of them can match a real TV (IMO)...however, I have never seen the All-in-Wonder in action...so you may be right.

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