ATI TV Wonder™ 550 – A High Quality Personal Video Recorder for your PC ATI TV Wonder™ 550 is loaded with leading-edge TV technologies. Features such as its advanced 3D comb filter, noise reduction, automatic color control, and automatic gain control produce brilliant, sharp video that rivals high-end consumer television sets.
Loaded with abilities, you’ll be able to schedule, watch and record
TV or listen to FM stations, making the ATI TV Wonder™ 550 a fantastic
media upgrade for your PC. This complete package further possesses the
ability to allow you to watch the latest DVD title, author your own
DVD, or convert your recorded TV shows to take with you on your Portable
Media
Player 1, 2. The entire experience is then elegantly packaged
within Catalyst Media Center’s™ attractive, easy-to-use 3D
interface.
All
of the incredible media capabilities of the ATI TV Wonder™ 550
expand your PC to explode beyond today’s standard computer uses. As
a result, ATI TV Wonder™ 550 is also the ideal solution for bringing
the PC into the living room, coupled with the hot new PC home Theater-style
cases.
Features
ATI TV Wonder™ 550 offers a superior TV viewing experience on your
PC. Video enhancement technologies that include 3D comb filtering and
noise reduction
produce a sharp, clear video image. Hardware MPEG-2 encoding ensures
a high quality video capture that can be easily transferred to DVD 2,
3.
Listen to your favorite FM stations while you work or surf the net.
ATI Catalyst Media Center™ completes the experience as it allows you
to play the latest
DVD titles, author a DVD from your own video library, or convert video
into a format that allows you to load your portable video player to
take your
favorite TV shows on the road1, 2.
Enhanced Video Quality for a Premium Viewing Experience 3D comb filtering provides a sharper image providing clean, crisp video.
Watch, Pause, and Record from a number of Media Sources
ATI TV Wonder™ 550 enables a PC to gain access to a number
of media sources including TV, FM radio, and analog audio/video. The
Personal Video Recorder enables you to pause live TV or schedule
recordings for later viewing. Attach the FM antenna and
listen to your favorite stations as you work. The audio/video
input block adds the ability to watch and capture video from your
VCR and camcorder.
Hot New Interface loaded with even more Media abilities
ATI Catalyst Media Center™ further adds the ability to
watch the latest DVD movie or author your own DVD from a library
of TV
programs and captured home videos1, 2. With Avivo™ Video
Converter, capture or convert your favorite recorded TV programs
to one of a number of formats including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, DivX
and H.264, enabling you to transfer this video to your portable
media device.
Large, bright easy-to-read buttons and clear, colorful icons pave a quick path to where you want to go.
1 DVD playback requires a DVD drive, and DVD authoring requires a DVD burner.
2 Some content may be subject to digital rights management and rights protection.
3 See ati.com for more details.
* On PCs configured to Microsoft Windows Vista® minimum system requirements, this product supports the basic user experience. Details at windowsvista.com/getready.
†This product is continually tested to requirements with Windows Vista®, pre-release & final versions as available. When production versions of Windows Vista are released you may be required to upgrade your device driver. See ati.com/windowsvista for details.