Home
Blogs
Forums
Files


Welcome to The Green Button          Sign in | Join | Help

Chris Lanier's Blog

AMD Offers the Ultimate HDTV and DVR Home Theater Experience for Notebook and Desktop PCs

TV Wonder™ 600 USB and TV Wonder™ 650 PCIe allow users to easily turn their PC into a feature-rich home theater —

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- July 9, 2007 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced two new solutions that offer high-definition television (HDTV) viewing and digital video recording (DVR) capabilities on desktop and notebook PCs. With the launch of these two new multimedia products, AMD continues to blaze a leadership path in video capture that bridges the analog and digital HDTV worlds.

With the external plug-and-play ATI TV Wonder™ 600 USB, a desktop or notebook PC easily becomes a feature-rich DVR for HDTVs. The easy to install TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe is a combo tuner that can capture both locally-available over-the-air and cable programming, including HDTV where available. The PCIe add-in card offers ClearQAM technology that captures unscrambled digital channels that may have previously been unavailable. Both products come with AMD’s Catalyst Media Center™ software, and integrate seamlessly with Windows Vista® Media Center and Windows® XP Media Center Edition.

“More and more, customers are using the PC as a digital hub for TV and video capture and these solutions put The Ultimate Visual Experience™ in reach of almost any PC user,” said Matt Skynner, vice president of marketing, Graphics Product Group, AMD. “These new HDTV tuner products provide a perfect complement to AMD’s graphics solutions, AMD LIVE!™ platforms, and AMD Turion™ 64 mobile technology-based notebooks – delivering simplified home theater PC options that come together for uncompromising visual quality and ease of use.”

The ATI TV Wonder 600 USB package includes a slim credit-card-sized IR remote control, A/V input adapter for video capture from a camcorder or VCR, and user-friendly Catalyst Media Center Software. Catalyst Media Center offers a simplified user interface optimized for TVs, an advanced electronic programming guide, DVD authoring and playback, video conversion and AMD LIVE! On Demand powered by Orb! for accessing the DVR from any computer with a broadband connectivity.

Extending the ATI TV Theater family, the ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe features ClearQAM tuning, allowing PC users to receive unencrypted digital content available from their local cable television provider. The ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe is a combo-tuner DVR, so users may switch between analog and digital TV to watch and record a digital TV program while simultaneously watching/recording an analog TV channel. The ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe also features high image quality, 3D comb filtering, and FM tuner.

The ATI TV Wonder 600 USB and ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe are scheduled to be widely available throughout North America by September 2007.

About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation, choice and industry growth by delivering superior customer-centric solutions that empower consumers and businesses worldwide. For more information, visit www.amd.com.

Cross Posted from Chris Lanier's Blog at http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/
Published Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:29 AM by Chris - Moderator
Filed Under: ,

Comments

 

nikonistic said:

Please AMD.. this is not the product we want from you. Please Release the Promised OCUR Device.. we dont care if it's USB or Internal PCI.. just let use watch premium HDTV. and you Will see your stock go up at a critical Time as Nvidia is Owning you right now....
July 11, 2007 9:40 AM
 

Chris - Moderator said:

Umm, OCUR has been out for months.  You can currently purchase a machine from several vendors can get OCURs with it.
July 11, 2007 9:52 AM
 

nikonistic said:

i mean WITHOUT having to purchase a new machine for it..
people who are systems builders ,with all the other parts used in theses machine available to them cant complete there machines due to this final piece of the puzzle..

it just seems wrong that there are so many issues releasing this technology to the  general public in a single unit..without forcing us to buy what we dont need.

But thanks for the heads up on an upcoming product. i'll direct my rants about that in another place.. :)
July 11, 2007 11:32 AM
 

Chris - Moderator said:

I see.  That has nothing to do with AMD.  That has everything to do with CableLabs.  You can bet AMD would much rather open sales to everyone and not just large OEMs.

AMD will releases the OCURs for mass sales as soon as CableLabs says they can.  I wouldn't hold your breath for that to happen anything time soon.
July 11, 2007 11:51 AM
Anonymous comments are disabled

This Blog

Post Calendar

<July 2007>
SuMoTuWeThFrSa
24252627282930
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930311234

News

 Subscribe in a Reader

Creating a Digital Home Entertainment System with Windows Media Center brings the experience and expertise of The Green Button with author Michael Miller!

About Me - Opinions expressed here are my own personal opinions and do not represent that of Microsoft Corporation

About TGB | Advertise | Link To Us | Donate | Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy
© 2003-2007 The Green Button, Inc. - All Rights Reserved