Cheap ATI Technologies Inc. TV Wonder NTSC TV Tuner with Video Capture (Electronics) Price

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Customer Reviews of ATI Technologies Inc. TV Wonder NTSC TV Tuner with Video Capture

TV at last
This tuner card works well.....if you have one of the video cards that support it such as any ATI video card, Nivida Riva 128, or TNT, 3Dfx Banshee,S3 Savage 3D. In other words you must have a Video card that supports overlays, as most of the better card do.
It supports TV guide (free) and I use it to do timer recordings hooked to my VCR, without the complicated VCR setup.
The actual TV image is good at the sized rate recommended, but drops off as the picture is enlarged.

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a terrible product
I purchased this product thinking at the very least i would be able to watch tv when i started the program. It won't even do that. It was all scrambled. When I went to their site, i saw that this was a common problem. Basically it occurs because i use a Nvidia video card and this is a Ati product. This malfunction must have been intentional because there are many free progams that can do this and this won't do and you pay for it. The softwae that comes with it crashes the computer regularly and prevents many other programs from running. After wasting my time looking for a fix on their site, i decided to look at some other sites. After many hours of searching, i found a fix (it was not made by ati) and after that the program worked. However this is something that ws intentional and should never have been released. I am never going to make the mistake of purchasing an ati product again.

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difficult to install, virtually no support, buggy software
I bought this product on sale, but it's not even worth the sale price. It ships with an old version of software, (MMC 7.6) and ATI expects you to pay for the latest version (drivers are free). Installation is a nightmare. Even though I followed their instructions carefully, I must have spent 5 hours trying to install it.

The Guide Plus software that it comes with which allows it to function as a VCR is not supported by ATI or the company that creates it, Gemstar. I noticed the Bravo network is not included in the list of stations. There's no way to add it and no place to get support to find out how to add the listings, or to get Gemstar to add it.

This puppy is going back.