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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: boxboy28 on February 17, 2003, 02:22:53 PM

Title: Gforce VIVO cards
Post by: boxboy28 on February 17, 2003, 02:22:53 PM

Im just curious are  the Geforce  VIVO cards  the same thing and ATI's  all - in - wonder?

Title: Gforce VIVO cards
Post by: Tarmac on February 17, 2003, 03:05:33 PM

No TV tuner on my GF4 VIVO.  

All in wonder has tuner.

Title: Gforce VIVO cards
Post by: bloom25 on February 17, 2003, 04:03:21 PM

nVidia GeForce based VIVO cards vary by manufacturer with regards to features.  Most use a 3rd party chip to do the actual video in part.  Asus makes a line of VIVO GeForce cards.  Another issue is that the software necessary to use the video in funtionality is not part of the nVidia reference drivers.  That means your hardware vendor  (ex Asus) provides the capture utility.

The ATI cards of the All in Wonder series are all the same and the ATI drivers include the capture utility.  (At least they used to, I haven't messed with one newer than the 8500 series Radeon.)

Title: Gforce VIVO cards
Post by: Skuzzy on February 17, 2003, 04:20:18 PM

ATI still provides that software bloom and they keep adding new toys to it.

Title: Gforce VIVO cards
Post by: boxboy28 on February 18, 2003, 11:53:19 AM

So you guys are saying that the Geforce cards do not include a TV tuner on them even though its labeled as VIVO?
do some brands (of the Geforece) have a turner incorparated?

If not im gonna have to go ATI AIW for my next purchase or buy a separate tuner card!

Title: Gforce VIVO cards
Post by: Dinger on February 18, 2003, 02:33:22 PM

I have an ATI ViVo card, not an AIW.  (That's the RADEON 64 DDR VIVO, for those of you scoring at home)
It has video in/out but not a tuner.
Unless it says it has a tuner, it doesn't have one.
But for most purposes, Video-In is sufficient.  I have a stereo VCR that, and I just run the composite out into the video-in, and the stereo to the line-in and it works fine.
If you have to have a tuner, you can also buy a separate tuner card (companies like hauppage now make HDTV tuner cards).

But ATI's video stuff is really well done.
(note that in my experience video recording through ViVO with a SB Audigy card doesn't work -- no audio).