dave48
Established Member
My video has just blown up so now I have no video. More fundamentally, there has been a problem with my TV tuner, so I was using the Video as a tuner. So I now have no TV as well as no video.
Since I don't want to buy a new TV at the moment - and I'm not sure I need a new vid really, since I was using it 80% as a tuner and 20% to record stuff, I was thinking of following a different route, namely setting up a home cinema PC.
The graphics cards I have been looking at primarily are the ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 7500 and All-In-Wonder 8500. These seem to offer just about everything I could possibly need in a single card.
Firstly, does anyone have any experience of using these cards? Are they any good, or just a jack-of-all-trades?
Secondly, is it worth shelling out the extra cash for the 8500? The DV input on this is completely irrelevant for me at the moment - I'm more interested in getting best possible quality of TV tuner, video recording and DVD playback. Good games performance is a factor, but probably not enough to justify the entire price difference.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Dave48
Since I don't want to buy a new TV at the moment - and I'm not sure I need a new vid really, since I was using it 80% as a tuner and 20% to record stuff, I was thinking of following a different route, namely setting up a home cinema PC.
The graphics cards I have been looking at primarily are the ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 7500 and All-In-Wonder 8500. These seem to offer just about everything I could possibly need in a single card.
Firstly, does anyone have any experience of using these cards? Are they any good, or just a jack-of-all-trades?
Secondly, is it worth shelling out the extra cash for the 8500? The DV input on this is completely irrelevant for me at the moment - I'm more interested in getting best possible quality of TV tuner, video recording and DVD playback. Good games performance is a factor, but probably not enough to justify the entire price difference.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Dave48