All-in-Wonder

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name = All-in-Wonder family


created = 1996–2006, 2008–-presentThe All-in-Wonder (also abbreviated to AIW) was a combination graphics card/TV tuner card designed by ATI Technologies. It was introduced on November 11, 1996. [cite press release |title= ATI's All-in-Wonder brings the seven wonders of graphics acceleration to one mainstream-priced board|publisher= ATI Technologies|date= 1996-11-11|url= http://ati.amd.com/companyinfo/press/1996/4033.html|format= |language= |accessdate= 2007-11-10|quote= ] ATI had previously used the "Wonder" trademark on other graphics cards, however, they were not full TV/graphics combo cards (EGA Wonder, VGA Wonder, Graphics Wonder). ATI also makes other TV oriented cards that use the word "Wonder" (TV Wonder, HDTV Wonder, DV Wonder), and remote control (Remote Wonder). The All-in-Wonder line debuted with the Rage chipset series. The cards were available in two forms, built by third-party manufacturers (marked as "Powered by ATI") as well as by ATI itself ("Built by ATI").

Each of the "All-in-Wonder Radeon" cards is based on a Radeon chipset with extra features incorporated onto the board. AIW cards run at a lower clock speeds (one exception is the AIW 9600XT, which ran faster) than their conventional counterparts to reduce heat and power consumption. [ [http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/aiw-x1900/index.x?pg=1 TechReport review] ] It was revealed that the firm has no further plans to renew the AIW product line with current developments stopped and all products in the line discontinued in September 2006. [ [http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3983 DailyTech report] ] In June 2008, AMD announced a comeback for this product line [ [http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/amd-smells-a-comeback-with-ati-all-in-wonder-hd/ AMD announces ATI-all-in-wonder-hd] ] .

Accessories

The cards use a variety of specialised ports along the side to provide output to televisions, with the retail version provided with composite ports and the ability to output to component. Later products also comes with a Remote Wonder remote control and a USB RF receiver to receive radio frequency signals from the remote. Some variants of the All-in-Wonder included FM radio tuning as well. Some analog-based tuners were bundled with Gemstar's Guide Plus+ electronic program guide for TV listings, while digital-based tuners used TitanTV instead.

Drivers

The AIW card drivers are based on ATI's Catalyst drivers, with additional T200 unified stream drivers. Currently the only operating systems fully supporting TV capture with these cards are Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 98 and 95. Display drivers work on Linux and TV capture is supported on some cards with the [http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php gatos] project. There is also limited support for TV capture on Microsoft Windows Vista, using third-party applications such as SageTV or SnapStream Beyond TV (Windows Media Center is not supported).

Lineup

References

ee also

*ATI Technologies
*Comparison of ATI Graphics Processing Units

External links

* [http://www.ati.com/products/multimedia.html ATI Multimedia Products page]
* [http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/ TechPowerUp Database of GPUs]
* [http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ General ATI TV and Overlay Software (GATOS)] - open-source Linux suite for All-in-Wonder cards