Sunnyvale (CA) – It has been a while since ATI offered a new version of its All-in-Wonder graphics/TV tuner card combination. AMD revived the product series with the ATI All-In-Wonder HD, which replaces the still offered AiW X1900 with a faster graphics core a much improved TV tuner chip and HDTV capabilities.

I had to think a bit about the last AiW card and ATI’s struggles with HDTV at the time. Just for the record, the X1900 version was released in January 2006, a few months before the ATI’s acquisition through AMD was announced. 30 months later, there is a new generation that hopes to build on successful AiW cards and maybe not so much on the lukewarm reception the X1900 received back then.

The All-In-Wonder HD has been updated with a PCIe 2.0 interface and upgraded to deal with the high-definition era. The card is now based on the Theater Pro 650 chip (the X1900 was based on the 200 version) and supports free over-the-air HDTV playback as well as HDTV and analog TV recording.

Also included is ClearQAM, a hardware MPEG-2 encoder (as well as VC-1 and H.264 acceleration), an adaptive 3D comb filter as well as a native HDMI interface. Blu-ray can be played back in full 1080p resolution.

The graphics chip is based on the previous generation 600-series 55 nm graphics core, clocked at 725 MHz (memory: 600 MHz). AMD claims that the graphics performance of the card will beat a Radeon HD 3650 by 5 to 15% in popular games.

The MSRP of the ATI All-In-Wonder HD is $199.

What is that bright light I see?...

Jun 26, 2008 07:44     

I think I may have died and gone to heaven. Yesterday I read the article about Cyberlink software transcoding 4 HD videos at once on an ATI card through hardware acceleration, and now this. I thought AMD had written off the AIW brand forever. This truly is my happiest week of hardware news this year.
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Just noticed timestamp on article

Jun 26, 2008 07:48     

I think the timestamp on this article is not recording the time correctly. Not that it's a major concern, I just thought I might mention it if it's important for your archiving purposes. I suppose it is possible to have posted the article exactly at midnight, but the timestamp also shows 00:00 for the technologically advanced faucet article preceeding it. [Yes, the article was posted exactly at midnight CST. Thank you for your note. - Wolfgang]

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Nice to see AIW again

Jun 26, 2008 09:44     

This is definitely great with the limited amount of real estate in small form factor motherboards. I'm eager to see how this works out. On a side note I can't believe someone actually read the title so closely that he felt the need to comment on the timestamp.
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Ily AMD

Jun 26, 2008 20:09     

I thought the AIW cards were gone forever :(
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