ATI 9800 "All In Wonder Card"

ntluser · 09-03-2004, 12:39

Can anyone with the ATI 9800 "All In Wonder Card" tell me if you can pick up Freeview channels with it please?

Further, if anyone also has the ATI TV Wonder Card as well, can they tell me about the usage and quality of the 'picture in picture' facility please?

Any info greatly appreciated.TIA.

Stuartbe · 09-03-2004, 12:41

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Originally Posted by ntluser

Can anyone with the ATI 9800 "All In Wonder Card" tell me if you can pick up Freeview channels with it please?

Further, if anyone also has the ATI TV Wonder Card as well, can they tell me about the usage and quality of the 'picture in picture' facility please?

Any info greatly appreciated.TIA.

Nope - the tuner is analog only. You will need a freeview box for that.

The picture in picture is o.k. but I dont often use it. I dont use the uhf connection I only use the composite connected to a STB.

erol · 09-03-2004, 13:12

I concurr re freeview channels

The PiP I thought only worked if you had a second TV card installed? Can you PiP from the two sources on the one card (say the TV aerial in and the composite video in) ? If so how, cause that could be useful for me - have terestrial analogue TV on the aerial in and sat TV on the composite in ? (Could I also PiP a third input via the s-video in from say mr video recorder as well) ?

Stuartbe · 09-03-2004, 13:14

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Originally Posted by erol

I concurr re freeview channels

The PiP I thought only worked if you had a second TV card installed? Can you PiP from the two sources on the one card (say the TV aerial in and the composite video in) ? If so how, cause that could be useful for me - have terestrial analogue TV on the aerial in and sat TV on the composite in ? (Could I also PiP a third input via the s-video in from say mr video recorder as well) ?

You can oly use PIP on analog via the tuner.... The function is greyed out if you are in comp. or svga modes.

erol · 09-03-2004, 21:52

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You can oly use PIP on analog via the tuner.... The function is greyed out if you are in comp. or svga modes.

Still a bit confused?

You still need a second TV card to use PiP, as I underatand it.

From the ATi help file

"If you have an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER card and an ATI TV WONDER PCI card installed, MULTVIEW lets you watch a different channel in a secondary video window. The secondary window can be in the following locations:"

You can not do PiP with just an AIW card, unless I have got the wrong end of the stick?

Stuartbe · 09-03-2004, 22:05

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Originally Posted by erol

Still a bit confused?

You still need a second TV card to use PiP, as I underatand it.

From the ATi help file

"If you have an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER card and an ATI TV WONDER PCI card installed, MULTVIEW lets you watch a different channel in a secondary video window. The secondary window can be in the following locations:"

You can not do PiP with just an AIW card, unless I have got the wrong end of the stick?

Hmmmmm. Bit confused by what ntl say there m8.... I only have one radeon 9800 AIW card and with the analog uhf input I can watch bbc1 and have itv on the pic screen... Maybe they mean something else

ntluser · 09-03-2004, 23:13

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Originally Posted by stuartbe

Hmmmmm. Bit confused by what ntl say there m8.... I only have one radeon 9800 AIW card and with the analog uhf input I can watch bbc1 and have itv on the pic screen... Maybe they mean something else

To get picture in picture you need both an ATI 9800 All In Wonder card and an ATI TV Wonder card as you need to have two TV tuners to make it work.

I think it also works with earlier All in Wonder cards too.

erol · 10-03-2004, 09:49

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Originally Posted by stuartbe

Hmmmmm. Bit confused by what ntl say there m8.... I only have one radeon 9800 AIW card and with the analog uhf input I can watch bbc1 and have itv on the pic screen... Maybe they mean something else

er it's what ATI say not NTL btw

If it's possible to watch BBC1 with ITV in a PiP, using just an AIW card on it's own, then I have now worked out how to do it with my AIW card ?

If you do have a second TV card (I believe it works with some non ATI cards as well) then you can PiP any one source on card 1 with any one source from card 2.

Least that how I understand it. I may wack in my old TV card along with my AIW and give it a go.

ntluser · 10-03-2004, 12:09

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Originally Posted by erol

er it's what ATI say not NTL btw

If it's possible to watch BBC1 with ITV in a PiP, using just an AIW card on it's own, then I have now worked out how to do it with my AIW card ?

If you do have a second TV card (I believe it works with some non ATI cards as well) then you can PiP any one source on card 1 with any one source from card 2.

Least that how I understand it. I may wack in my old TV card along with my AIW and give it a go.

From what ATI say I believe the ATI "All In Wonder Card" will work with NVidia cards too to produce PiP but not sure about other brands.