Ati offers HDTV Reception and Recording... on the PC

srobert

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Feb 17, 2004

• #1

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Any chance this tech is ever gonna be ported to the mac? this card sounds like a nice buy if you can't afford to buy expensives HDTV and PVR.

We definitly need more video card options.

 

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x86isslow

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 17, 2004

• #2

i doubt it. ati's pc support is based on the tv-windows convergence (XP Media Edition).

Unless jobs does a 180 and says convergence on macs too, ati probably wont release a mac version..

then again, if the next iteration of apple displays are HD, we may have a whole new ball game

 

srobert

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Feb 17, 2004

• #3

Excuse my ignorance but aren't current displays more than HD?

 

MoparShaha

Contributor

• Feb 17, 2004

• #4

Originally posted by srobert
Excuse my ignorance but aren't current displays more than HD?

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Yes, they are.

 

Dont Hurt Me

macrumors 603

• Feb 17, 2004

• #5

Just put a tv in jack on every mac, ignore Steve he aint allways right. many times i would like both.

 

idkew

macrumors 68020

• Feb 17, 2004

• #6

Originally posted by Dont Hurt Me
Just put a tv in jack on every mac, ignore Steve he aint allways right. many times i would like both.

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i agree. it would have its place. maybe setup a airport extreme dvr edition, which will stream on the fly encoded mp4s.

 

Dippo

macrumors 65816

• Feb 17, 2004

• #7

While ATI's AIW cards are really nice, the software to them still needs a lot of work.

I have an AIW Radeon 7500 and it works well and I used to use it to record a lot of stuff off tv, but the interface is still bad and the tv listings is horrible.

If they just made tv listings like tivo has it, then I might go back to using it.

Besides the fact that it eats system resources.