ATI Technologies, responding to challenge from rival NVidia, has ...
ATI Technologies, responding to challenge from rival NVidia, has shipped low-priced TV add-in card for PCs priced at $129. All-in-Wonder VE PCI card, which shipped last week, is aimed at discount and CE chains such as Wal-Mart and Best…
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Buy, Group Product Mgr. Blair Birmingham said. Card based on ATI’s Radeon 7500 graphics processor has 64 MB of double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM, Philips TV tuner, TV-on-demand feature for pausing live TV, Gemstar Guide Plus and Pinnacle Systems’ Studio 8 video editing software. Device requires that desktop or notebook have minimum 500 MHz processor for MPEG-2 video capture. Video can be captured at 720x480 resolution. To further drive price, ATI plans to offer $30 mail-in rebate for short period in mid-Dec. that drops final tag to $99, Birmingham said. ATI’s introduction of All-in-Wonder VE comes as rival NVidia readies Personal Cinema PCI add-in card at $199. NVidia, which failed in first attempt to launch Personal Cinema in 2001, has redesigned card and lined up 6-7 partners that marketed co-branded product.