ATI TV Wonder 200 PCI Video Card w/PVR Capabilities
from: ATI Technologies
List Price: $49.99
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Product Description:
TV Wonder 200 PCI allows you to schedule and record your favorite TV programs as it is a powerful Personal Video Recorder for your PC. Designed for Windows XP Home and Professional Edition, the TV Wonder 200 PCI lets you watch, play, pause or record programs at will. Save your favorite shows to your hard drive, burn to DVD, or share with your portable media devices. Go further by easily converting your videos to formats compatible with iPod, PSP, and other great portable media players to take your favorite TV shows on the road with you. TV Wonder 200 PCI includes easy-to-use Catalyst Media Center, offering the ability to pause live TV or author and burn a DVD of recorded shows or captured video. As an added bonus, Catalyst Media Center includes a DVD decoder to give you the ability to watch the latest DVD titles, a complete set of multimedia features. Catalyst Media Center takes the concept of the multimedia PC to an entirely new level, taking over where other media solutions leave off. Catalyst Media Center supports HD video are converging on H.264 compression standard along with a number of advanced media formats, such as MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX or WMV9.Enjoy the freedom to digitally schedule and record your TV shows in MPEG2, MPEG4, Windows Media Video 9, AVI, DivX, or H.264 formats System Requirements -Intel Pentium 4, Celeron, AMD Athlon, Sempron or compatible, 256 MB or more of system memory, Sound Card and speakers, Motherboard with available PCI slot, Cable TV signal or amplified antenna required, Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, DVD Authoring requires DVD burner, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows Vista UpgradeableTV Wonder 200 PCI is compatible only with the NTSC TV standard
TV Wonder 200 PCI allows you to schedule and record your favorite TV programs as it is a powerful Personal Video Recorder for your PC. Designed for Windows XP Home and Professional Edition, the TV Wonder 200 PCI lets you watch, play, pause or record programs at will. Save your favorite shows to your hard drive, burn to DVD, or share with your portable media devices. Go further by easily converting your videos to formats compatible with iPod, PSP, and other great portable media players to take your favorite TV shows on the road with you. TV Wonder 200 PCI includes easy-to-use Catalyst Media Center, offering the ability to pause live TV or author and burn a DVD of recorded shows or captured video. As an added bonus, Catalyst Media Center includes a DVD decoder to give you the ability to watch the latest DVD titles, a complete set of multimedia features. Catalyst Media Center takes the concept of the multimedia PC to an entirely new level, taking over where other media solutions leave off. Catalyst Media Center supports HD video are converging on H.264 compression standard along with a number of advanced media formats, such as MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX or WMV9.Enjoy the freedom to digitally schedule and record your TV shows in MPEG2, MPEG4, Windows Media Video 9, AVI, DivX, or H.264 formats System Requirements -Intel Pentium 4, Celeron, AMD Athlon, Sempron or compatible, 256 MB or more of system memory, Sound Card and speakers, Motherboard with available PCI slot, Cable TV signal or amplified antenna required, Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, DVD Authoring requires DVD burner, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows Vista UpgradeableTV Wonder 200 PCI is compatible only with the NTSC TV standard
Features:
- Watch record and playback your favorite shows on your PC using the built-in 125-channel TV tuner, or watch and capture video from an external video source such as a camcorder or VCR
- Double up your television viewing experience using MulTView when used in conjunction with a second TV Tuner
- Watch TV in silence with closed captioning
- Watch TV on your PC monitor while you work in other applications or surf the net using ThruView
- Zoom-in, pan or pause live TV
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- questionable
I am questioning if any video card with TV capability can actually work smoomthy. I have had ATI products in the past and had trouble with their software conflicting and freezing up my computer. And this was no different I finally got the TV to work after hours and hours of hang time and hard shutdowns and rebooting.
Its all so time consuming, you click on something and end up waiting 5-10 mins & it using 90-100% of your cpu, my processor is only a P4 but I have 1024ram, it shouldnt be so ... Read More
Rating: 
- For the price, it gets the job done.
I bought this card so that I could play my videogame systems on a computer monitor, should I ever run off to college and be without a television. I have seen all the negative reviews it has gotten, but owning one myself, I can say that these "reviewers" havn't got a clue of what they are dealing with.
Despite it being old, this card does exactly what I wanted it to, but with ho-hum results. It isn't because of ATI's software, or the card itself, but because of the sheer number ... Read More
Rating: - Good Pic -- Crummy Sound
Pretty easy plug-n-play board. DVD works great, which is why it got two stars instead of one. But when I turned it to the TV mode the sound was hardly there. Also, what sound there was dropped out every few seconds. Everything was hooked up because I was getting sound, but even at full volume it was barely a whisper.
Adjusting the settings was not particularly user friendly either. Help was a joke and there is practically no support as this is an obsolete item.
Would I buy ... Read More
Rating: 
- AVOID!
Hardware: It's an antiquated TV Wonder re-named to keep it in the market. The Picture Quality is poor to fair. It is NOT Windows MCE Compatible.
Hardware: 1 star
"Free" Remote: It's NOT Free. You have to pay an inflated S&H charge for it to be sent to you. By the way, they will not send you a 2nd "Free" remote if you've bought more than one TV Wonder. (One per household?)
"Free Remote" Fiasco: 2 Stars, only because it is a nice remote.
Software: The included Catalyst ... Read More
Rating: - ATI Products are NOT fully Vista compatible
I recently purchased an ATI TV Video Card which clearly stated "Vista Compatible".The "FREE" ($11.00 in shipping???) remote is NOT compatible.It took me THREE DAYS for ATI to admit that.Clearly the company engages in misleading advertising.
My recommendation: DO NOT BUY ATI PRODUCTS.
- questionableI am questioning if any video card with TV capability can actually work smoomthy. I have had ATI products in the past and had trouble with their software conflicting and freezing up my computer. And this was no different I finally got the TV to work after hours and hours of hang time and hard shutdowns and rebooting.
Its all so time consuming, you click on something and end up waiting 5-10 mins & it using 90-100% of your cpu, my processor is only a P4 but I have 1024ram, it shouldnt be so ... Read More
- For the price, it gets the job done.I bought this card so that I could play my videogame systems on a computer monitor, should I ever run off to college and be without a television. I have seen all the negative reviews it has gotten, but owning one myself, I can say that these "reviewers" havn't got a clue of what they are dealing with.
Despite it being old, this card does exactly what I wanted it to, but with ho-hum results. It isn't because of ATI's software, or the card itself, but because of the sheer number ... Read More
- Good Pic -- Crummy SoundPretty easy plug-n-play board. DVD works great, which is why it got two stars instead of one. But when I turned it to the TV mode the sound was hardly there. Also, what sound there was dropped out every few seconds. Everything was hooked up because I was getting sound, but even at full volume it was barely a whisper.
Adjusting the settings was not particularly user friendly either. Help was a joke and there is practically no support as this is an obsolete item.
Would I buy ... Read More
- AVOID!Hardware: It's an antiquated TV Wonder re-named to keep it in the market. The Picture Quality is poor to fair. It is NOT Windows MCE Compatible.
Hardware: 1 star
"Free" Remote: It's NOT Free. You have to pay an inflated S&H charge for it to be sent to you. By the way, they will not send you a 2nd "Free" remote if you've bought more than one TV Wonder. (One per household?)
"Free Remote" Fiasco: 2 Stars, only because it is a nice remote.
Software: The included Catalyst ... Read More
- ATI Products are NOT fully Vista compatibleI recently purchased an ATI TV Video Card which clearly stated "Vista Compatible".The "FREE" ($11.00 in shipping???) remote is NOT compatible.It took me THREE DAYS for ATI to admit that.Clearly the company engages in misleading advertising.
My recommendation: DO NOT BUY ATI PRODUCTS.
