ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 7500

FlippedBit writes "ATi has released a very affordable All In Wonder product based on their Radeon 7500 chip. For a mere $200 smackers you can get decent 3D graphics, TV Tuner, TiVO functions, and a remote that will work from another room with no line of sight."

Re:problems with it...

[Rob Parkhill]

The biggest problem for me is that like all of the other "TiVo cards" for your PC, it will ONLY work with analog cable tv. There is no "IR Blaster" output that would allow me to use this with my digital cable box, or my digital satellite TV decoder.

These cards need to include an IR transmitter which I can use to change the damn channel on the decoder box automatically when I want to record a program. Without that, it's no better than the tuner-free video-in port on my PC now.

Re:Who needs 300 fps?

[SuiteSisterMary]

The eye can only see fifty FPS of FILM, as film includes motion blur and the like, foolying your eyes into seeing many more virutal frames. Standard example: Take a camera that films at 2 frames per second. Film something passing from extreme left to extreme right over the space of a second; you'll get a blurred image of it passing. Now, write a 3d engine that will render at 2 frames per second. Have a 3d object pass from left to right over the space of a second. You'll get a static image of the object at one side of the screen for half a second, then a static image of the object on the other side of the screen for half a second. Looks much different, nicht wahr?

Is it just me?

[DeadBugs]

very affordable All In Wonder product .... For a mere $200 smackers
Am I the only one that thinks $200 is a lot of money still?

Re:Who needs 300 fps?

[Proc6]

I think the theory behind a 150 frame per second Quake score is, "If it can get 150 normally it should be able to get the acceptable 30-50 that seems smooth to us all in the "harder" parts." Remember some of these games vary wildly in complexity depending on the level, area, number of characters on screen, so getting 150 kps assures you that it won't start to suck as the battle gets complex.

Re:Fast GL & TV under LInux

[Wolfier]

Really...?

But...does the Linux OpenGL driver support cube map, vertex shaders, hardware skinning...using standard or ATI extensions?

When you put a GeForce3 on a Linux box, you can use it as a GeForce3. But last time I looked at it, when you put a Radeon on a Linux box, you can only use it as a very very fast Rage 128.

Looks like a waste of money to me.

Re:problems with it...

[Anonymous Coward]

heaven help you if you're gone more than 7 days

Heaven is helping you if it gets you to get off your ass and stop watching television.