Ati All In Wonder 9700

[Rock170075]

I recieved information that with the All In Wonder 9700 card you can record tv programs to your computer. Is this true if so what do you have to record to? Can you record to your hard drive or do you have to use a removable disk?
Also do you guys think that ATI or Nvidia are better cards? Which would you go with?

[HAL9000]

I prefer ATI cards. Yes, the AIW 9700 can record direct to your hard drive. My second machine has a much older All-in-Wonder Rage Pro 8Mb and she uses it to record the soap opera The Days of Our Lives for her web page The Days Ahead (shameless promotion). She then uses it to do still captures for the web page. I have an AIW Radeon 8500DV and use it all the time for recording my favorite shows.

Keep in mind, recording to the hard drive takes up a whack load of space. My wifes one hour show takes about 2.5Gb at "good" recording level.

[sleepypost]

how's the video capture quality on the ATi wonder? do you know the frames per second level? (im talking about the composite input)

[HAL9000]

I only do capture from TV, so I'm not sure what the capture rate is, but when it starts recording, for the first 5-10 seconds or so, it says that it's dropping less than 1 frame per second, then it catches up and no longer drops frames. Even so, you can't visually see the drop.

[TwoRails]

Can I join in? The AIW 9700 is the card I'm considering very heavily. (I've been an nVidia fan up to recent, but with the good words of HAL, PAM123, and others about ATI, I'm thinking of switching.)

Do they do Hi-Res good? Everybody brags about the TV / MPEG 1 capture (which is good, as I'm also interested in it), but how about hi-res capture for converting home movie VHS tapes for final destination on / to DVD?

TIA

TwoRails

[sleepypost]

It advertises TRUE digital capture. so im guessing the picture quality is as good as it can be for VHS conversions. dont expect miracles though. You can hook up a PS2 in a Window, right??? Thats what imm interested in...

[HAL9000]

Yes.. you could have the PS-2 running in a window or full screen and be able to swap back and forth if you wish.

[Alienware_Dude]

Wait......is there something cheaper then the 9700 Pro AIW that I can use to hook my PS2 up to my computer?

[TwoRails]

Thanks sleepypost !

TwoRails

[Xayd]

It can capture at a full 30 frames per sec in resolutions up to 640x480, but you need hard drive space and speed.

At the highest quality settings the file you'll end up with for one 3.5 hour NFL game is right at 23 gigs (from experience ).

[Alienware_Dude]

Originally posted by Alienware_Dude Wait......is there something cheaper then the 9700 Pro AIW that I can use to hook my PS2 up to my computer?

Hmmmm. Will an ATI TV Wonder accomplish the same thing?

[TwoRails]

Originally posted by Xayd It can capture at a full 30 frames per sec in resolutions up to 640x480, but you need hard drive space and speed.

Hopefully it does more than that !??! My Asus 8200 Deluxe (GF 3 w/ analog capture) can go to 720x480 ... And, after going from ATA 100 to ATA 133, I don't drop frames.... The longest, one time capture I have done is a one hour TV show for a test. Didn't make note of the file size, though...

Now I'm wondering if upgrading to the 9700 Pro AIW is going to have $350 worth of benefits !?!?



TwoRails

[Xayd]

Err, you're right, 720x480 is the highest.

Don't know if it'll go higher with the next version of ATI's recording software or not.