ATI AIW 8500DV...sound good or not?

[IM_Riktar]

Hi Sciascia,
Yes the wife is listening to me madly type on the keyboard. As I mutter possibilities under my breath I can picture her locking up the checkbook and other financial means of destruction from me. But that is another thread.

For what it would cost for the additional machine and the rose box, couldn't you just as easlily (famous last words) sell off your existing monitor and buy one that affords you dual inputs and put the remainder into a PCI whatever that has better 3D support? or for that matter get a DB15 switch box which should be cheap enough (manual type Sub $15) and plunk a PCI Radeon, GeForce2 PCI, whatever in next to the Marvel.

For whatever it's worth I am going to look into the flipside of my proposal (PCI radeon) on Ebay and at the stores and if it works out I will let you know.

Riktar

[Hulk]

I can't believe ATI doesn't realize they could corner the low-end video editing graphics card market if they incorporated a DVD MAX feature into their cards.

How can they be so out of touch? Don't people at ATI edit video and try to output to VCR?

I keep thinking, in a few months, or a year, we're going to look back and remember when there we didn't have video cards with good 3D, TV tuners, and TV Out functionality. I've been thinking that for three years now!

Mark

[Sciascia]

Good point, I mean DVDMax can't be a Matrox only accomplishment. It may not be the easiest thing to figure out, but if I had a research team designing a card for me I would atleast try to beat the competition in all areas. The Hydravision thing sounds pretty weak. Of course my monitor has enough real este that i usually just edit with that and not turn on the TV. The real use for me is for movies and streaming video. Realistically I don't use it that much anymore. I don't like the fact that an upgrade results in a loss of a feature though.

PCI cards are not that interesting to me. With the added performance of AGP I think that the hit would not be worth the money.

Next problem is shold I sell the G400 or hold onto it. Don't think that I would get too much for it. Atleast not what it is worth to me.