AMD Offers the Ultimate HDTV and DVR Home Theater Experience for Notebook and Desktop PCs
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®
“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.
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
September 2007.