I have an ATI all in wonder Radeon 9700 Pro (almost identical in speed to the 9800 Pro, but was only out for a month or so before the 9800 hit (the 9600 is a MUCH slower card--but supports dual monitors). Works great. My captures are good (SVHS from any NTSC source), plus I use the PVR capability to capture Smallville each Wednesday night. I especially like the ability to shrink the window and have it still show transparently in the background (user configured). I have a VHS deck and a DVD/VHS combo hooked into it, along with my cable connection (digital cable, but it still delivers channels 1-100 in analog).
Some in the forum don't like the AIW, but I've tried five different capture systems (older and newer (Jovian Logic box, card, Pinnacle DV500, etc.) and AIW works as good as any (including as good as my camcorder conversion).
It's also a very powerful 3D card for some of my 3D applications.
I have 2 myhd cards in two separate machine. Sometimes they schedule 2 hd shows at the same time so I watch one while recording on the other. Then I watch the saved show across my 100mb network.
That said, don't think that a tuner card is anywhere near as "plug-n-play" as buying a tivo or something like that. Its part of the computer and is just as flakey as the weakest part of the computer.
I have recorded about 110 different HD programs with the MY-HD card
and it has been excellent. It will also play back HD rendered 19.7 streams from V5 with sound no problem.
JJKizak, very interesting. What codec and settings did you use to compile the Hd video to play it back through the myhd card? Sounds like something I'd like to play with. :)
Select 720 X30p for the render in V5. In the custom section select 15megs CBR, 384kc audio, and "transport stream". Change auto to manual and put in 19.4 megs then save as "whatever". ALL OTHER SETTINGS ARE DEFAULT. After rendering change the mpg file to tp. Then select the file with the MY-HD file and put it into the file menu. Then select it with the remote or whatever and play it on the HDTV.
It will astound you. You can do this with slides or stills if they are in the range of 2200 x 2200 pixels. You can also add music to them.
You can also do this with HD-WMV files. The MY-HD has its own recording to harddrive function or recording to D-VHS. The rendering
data described above is from Cineform "Connect HD" and is also available on their website. Happy Viewing.