ATI TV Wonder Elite TV Tuner Review

Filed in archive Entertainment on August 29, 2005

When building your own Media Center, the most important piece has to be the TV tuner card. HomeTheaterMag.com has high praise for the ATI TV Wonder Elite TV Tuner and they state:

Based on the Theater 550 Pro chip, the TVWE delivers quite simply the best-quality analog television images we've ever seen on the PC, rivaling the performance of true high-end home theater gear. It is the only add-in TV card with a motion-adaptive NTSC/PAL 3D comb filter, as well as a superior 12-bit video decoder for a more lifelike picture. Everything, including PVR'd content, looks better with the TVWE. Full on-chip MPEG-2 encoding (both audio and video) handles the recording, which results in better sound/picture, but this on-chip approach also gives your CPU a break. There's also 16 megabytes of memory to ensure full framerate recording plus natural-looking noise reduction, and all this without a heatsink or fan, for those who worry that a "Home Theater PC" might be too noisy for the living room! And to remove all doubt, this is the only PC TV tuner product certified by the notoriously particular folks at the Imaging Science Foundation.

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