ATI advertising this as a two-tuner product is rather of moot and worthless point. They are counting the NTSC tuner. Ok, so what? Who has a television that doesn't have an NTSC tuner already? And in the age of HDTV who the heck wants an NTSC tuner? In fact, my year old el'cheapo flat-panel has both an NTSC and ATSC tuner. Hey, I got two-tuners too.
Exactly who are they catering this product to? ATSC tuner cards have been out for several years and if I remember correctly every single one of them included the ability for decoding NTSC signals.
It's for use with a computer, not a television. None of my monitors have tuners. What's going to kill this for Apple Fanboys, is it's just plain ugly. I guess they could always hide it :)
As for the NTSC tuner, it's good until 2009. Then it's a boat anchor.
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GhostDoggy @ Nov 14th 2007 5:40AM
ATI advertising this as a two-tuner product is rather of moot and worthless point. They are counting the NTSC tuner. Ok, so what? Who has a television that doesn't have an NTSC tuner already? And in the age of HDTV who the heck wants an NTSC tuner? In fact, my year old el'cheapo flat-panel has both an NTSC and ATSC tuner. Hey, I got two-tuners too.
Exactly who are they catering this product to? ATSC tuner cards have been out for several years and if I remember correctly every single one of them included the ability for decoding NTSC signals.
Joe Maki @ Nov 14th 2007 8:15AM
It's for use with a computer, not a television. None of my monitors have tuners. What's going to kill this for Apple Fanboys, is it's just plain ugly. I guess they could always hide it :)
As for the NTSC tuner, it's good until 2009. Then it's a boat anchor.