Who will win this year PVR card ATI 650 or NVIDIA DualTV?.

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by SHS

korben_dallas the RF input is both an analog/digital input rolled in to one input
There are no STB that can output over RF in digital signal format far I know of.
Let put to you this way
Take an ATI Theater 550 Pro marred it with ATI HDTV Wonder = ATI Theater 650 Pro with only diff is that it has a Theater 311 demodulator not the NXT2004.

Now I see on the ATI press release page

- Hybrid tuner support - Access both analog and digital TV with one TV card

So this looks like one of the RF's can be used for analog cable and the other RF for OTA HDTV? Or maybe there is a breakout cable?

[SHS]

One RF is FM the other one both analog and digital tuner input

[mgalpin]

Originally Posted by Narflex

We will definitely be supporting the ATI 650 card. There's a good chance it'll work already with only a minor registry edit (if even that is needed).

Time for that registry tweek.

My 650's analog BDA driver is recognized by Sage V5.0.2 and I can see analog stations or use the composite input on the breakout block (haven't tried S-Video). However, while there is a "digital tuner" option listed selecting it causes Sage to attempt to tune the SD RF input not the Digital/FM input.

There seems to be a specific digital BDA driver which "other" PVR software can see which Sage does not recognize.

It may be academic - I like several other early adopters cannot get HD channels to be recognized even in ATI's own application.

[Polypro]

Thanks for the report. Good luck and keep us updated.

P

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by mgalpin

Time for that registry tweek.

My 650's analog BDA driver is recognized by Sage V5.0.2 and I can see analog stations or use the composite input on the breakout block (haven't tried S-Video). However, while there is a "digital tuner" option listed selecting it causes Sage to attempt to tune the SD RF input not the Digital/FM input.

There seems to be a specific digital BDA driver which "other" PVR software can see which Sage does not recognize.

It may be academic - I like several other early adopters cannot get HD channels to be recognized even in ATI's own application.

Any chance you could post some pix of the card and breakout cable?