ATI HDTV Wonder Review

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Bundle and Features:

When you take a look at the bundle and the features of the ATI HDTV Wonder, it is hard to walk away unimpressed. Most useful within the bundle is ATI's Remote Wonder, a fully functional remote control that allows you to get the full HTPC experience out of your HDTV Wonder card. Features wise, ATI's latest version of it's popular Multimedia Center software allows you to easily capture OTA DTV broadcasts and provides enough customizability to keep even the most hardcore of enthusiasts happy.

Performance and Stability:

Performance wise, since the HDTV Wonder is a multimedia card, we can't use our standard suite of tests to determine how the card performs. Instead, we used the ATI HDTV Wonder for over a month in our test rig so that we could gage how useful the card really is. From our extensive use of the card, we can conclude that the ATI HDTV Wonder does precisely what it was made to do, and is the best HDTV tuner card on the market today. With that said, the most obvious shortcoming of the HDTV Wonder is the fact that it only supports OTA broadcasts, and not Satellite or Digital Cable HDTV broadcasts. The onboard NXT2004 chip does support both, but going into Satellite and Digital Cable broadcasts raises digital rights management (DRM) issues, the same issues that keep the standard ATI TV Wonder from descramblinb Pay-Per-View cable channels.