ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro 128 MB 8X AGP Graphics Card

 (18 customer reviews)

The funny thing about today's trend of recording to hard drives is that it had been realized by ATI quite some time ago. The All-In-Wonder series of video cards from ATI are expensive items, but in the rare category of "Worth Every Nickel".I've owned nVidia cards, Creative cards, Hercules, Diamond, just about everything *but* an ATI card. They're expensive, and I never had the scratch until I got older. Boy, had I know what this baby could do, I'd have saved a little moreThe AIW Radeon Series extends a successful formula: display television signals on a PC, and display PC video on a television. If this seems logical, consider that ATI (along with Hauppauge) has been in this space for years now. The worst-kept secret is finally out. The Radeon series is an extremely fast, capable display card with abilities far in excess of game-only display cards from nVidia or Creative.The AIW Radeon 9800 ships with a remote control, an IR receiver, a variety of adapters for...Read more

First of all, let's forget the notion that you're using this to tape shows from television, for either legal or illegal future usage. I'd like to give you the perspective of one who works daily with digital media, both in editing and filming. This card rocks! It certainly lives up to its name!I had some initial problems getting the output to work, but then again I'm not one to read a manual from top to bottom for fun. Sorry, that's just not my thing. I read the essentials for what I need to do. I was on a rush job and needed answers fast. Though the manual had them, I called ATI's tech support and they were nothing but superb. The person on the other end was cordial, quick to the point, and more importantly, solved my issue in less than 2 minutes! This card really saved our bacon when the president of our organization needed a tape from digital and needed it fast. Without the proper hardware for that, we relied on the All-in-Wonder card to get the job done. Needless to...Read more

this product does what the others report but... I've only had it 2 weeks and found out that it will REFUSE to record some shows because the software has some way of knowing that the transmitter wants copyright protection. (this was sports of free tv) So consider paying $400 to make a pc into a vcr that refuses to record some shows. 2nd the drivers & software arent being kept up to date. 3rd there are problems with agp drivers on many motherboards. 4th Allot of what you would think that the software would do it does not. for instance i have been unable to tell it to record the same show in the same time slot every week or day like you can a $50 vcr. so it feels like 1st generation hardware & software to me. also if you have a taste for normal tv resolution on replay better add a 100 gig drive to your expected costs.