ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB PC TV Tuner

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 3 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00138EOH8
• Item model number: TVW600USB
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,285 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 23, 2008

Product Description

The ATI TV Wonder⿢ HD 600PCI Express® high-definition PVR offers a feature⿿rich set of media abilities, transforming your PC into the ultimate entertainment system. Attach an amplified high definition antenna or your TV cable and you can watch, pause or record analog and digital live HDTV on your PC or convert your recorded TV shows to take with you on your Portable Media Player. This hybrid PCI tuner will delight a home theater enthusiast looking for great value in a multimedia PC TV tuner. The single hybrid tuner offers tuning for: Over-the-air Digital TV/HDTV (ATSC) & Over-the-air/Cable Analog TV (NTSC). ATI Theater⿢ Video Processing Technology features: Software MPEG-2 Encoder, Automatic Color Control, Automatic Gain Control. ATI Catalyst Media Center⿢ featuring: Full PVR and time shifting functionality, DVD Playback Software, DVD Authoring Software, ATI Theater⿢ Video Converter Software. Also includes AMD LIVE!⿢ CD featuring AMD LIVE! On Demand. Uses Hi-Speed USB2.0 Connection Bus. Input Connectors: F-Type Coax input for Analog TV (NTSC)/Digital or HDTV (ATSC or Clear-QAM), S-Video, Stereo audio input, Composite video input. System Requirements: 512MB of system memory (1GB recommended for Microsoft Vista®, Sound Card and Speakers, High-Speed USB port, DirectX® 9 or better graphics card, Cable TV signal or amplified antenna for NTSC TV signals, Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, DVD Authoring requires DVD burner, DVD decoder is included with ATI Catalyst Media Center⿢. Memory Requirements: For Windows® XP: 256MB required 512MB recommended for better performance; For Windows Vista® 5152MB Required,, 1BG or more recommended for better performance.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ATI Wonderful, September 28, 2008

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JDHill (MI USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB PC TV Tuner (Personal Computers)

Just installed the ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB, on a Dell Inspiron with Vista Home Premium, completely in less than 1/2 hour & it works great! Great video & audio, in sync. However, the instructions are missing a key point or two. Luckily I spent some time reading reviews first. Shut down running programs and install the disk. While the disk is running, connect your cable to the outlet and the USB TV device then insert the USB TV device into your PC. Pull the battery protective tab from the remote & turn it on. When the install is done running, it will leave two icons: ATI Catalyst and BDARemote. Double click BDARemote first - it loads the USB device driver (not mentioned in the instructions!). It will appear nothing happened. Only then, double click the ATI Catalyst icon to recognize the stations and set viewing parameters. If you don't like Catalyst, you can then set up the TV on Windows Media Center.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works perfectly with windows 7 media center!, November 4, 2009

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This review is from: ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB PC TV Tuner (Personal Computers)

This tuner is the best one I have used. Works flawlessly with Windows 7 32 & 64 bit. (our laptop is 32 bit and our desktop is 64 bit)I highly recommend this if you are running windows 7. You will not be disappointed! Just use the media center software in windows 7 instead of the software that comes with the tuner.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Value - Works pretty well. Long Set up though, November 15, 2009

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B. Hendrix "pc95" (San Diego) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB PC TV Tuner (Personal Computers)

I bought the ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB TV Tuner recently through woot for $25 new. After a very LONG and poor setup of software on 2 seperate computer (1 XP and 1 Vista) found the unit runs reasonably well with old "rabbit ears"

antennas from Radio Shack. I bought this mainly for NFL Sunday as I still have yet to buy HD TVs but our current tvs still are fine for DVDs. Figure $25 to be able to watch 3-4 games a weekend during football season

is the best value. ill eventually get an HDTV anyway. Occasionally the tuner cuts out (grays out)and video gets choppy but generally that coincides to when it gets windy. Overall it was pulling down good signal for about 90% of the time. It froze up the system every once in awhile. For $25, I can excuse some misbehavior as long as the majority of the time it operates. This is using the included clunky "catalyst" SW