All-in-Wonder
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The All-in-Wonder was a combination graphics card/TV tuner card
designed by ATI Technologies
. It was introduced on November 11, 1996. ATI had previously used the Wonder trademark on other graphics cards, however, they were not full TV/graphics combo cards (EGA Wonder, VGA Wonder, Graphics Wonder). ATI also makes other TV oriented cards that use the word Wonder (TV Wonder, HDTV Wonder, DV Wonder), and remote control (Remote Wonder). The All-in-Wonder line debuted with the Rage
chipset series. The cards were available in two forms, built by third-party manufacturers (marked as "Powered by ATI") as well as by ATI itself ("Built by ATI").
Each of the All-in-Wonder Radeon cards is based on a Radeon
chipset with extra features incorporated onto the board. AIW cards run at a lower clock speeds (two exception are the AIW 9600XT / AIW X800XT faster / same speed) than their conventional counterparts to reduce heat and power consumption. In September 2006, it was claimed that development had stopped and all products in the line were discontinued/ In June 2008, AMD revived the product line with an HD
model.
ports and the ability to output to component
. Later products also comes with a Remote Wonder remote control and a USB RF
receiver to receive radio frequency signals from the remote. Some variants of the All-in-Wonder included FM radio tuning as well. Some analog-based tuners were bundled with Gemstar's Guide Plus+ electronic program guide
for TV listings, while digital-based tuners used TitanTV instead.
TV tuner card
A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the Tivo digital video recorder does.-Variants: The interfaces for...
designed by ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Inc., the company was listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by Advanced Micro...
. It was introduced on November 11, 1996. ATI had previously used the Wonder trademark on other graphics cards, however, they were not full TV/graphics combo cards (EGA Wonder, VGA Wonder, Graphics Wonder). ATI also makes other TV oriented cards that use the word Wonder (TV Wonder, HDTV Wonder, DV Wonder), and remote control (Remote Wonder). The All-in-Wonder line debuted with the Rage
ATI Rage
The ATI Rage is a series of graphics chipsets offering GUI 2D acceleration, video acceleration, and 3D acceleration. It is the successor to the Mach series of 2D accelerators.-3D RAGE :...
chipset series. The cards were available in two forms, built by third-party manufacturers (marked as "Powered by ATI") as well as by ATI itself ("Built by ATI").
Each of the All-in-Wonder Radeon cards is based on a Radeon
Radeon
Radeon is a brand of graphics processing units and random access memory produced by Advanced Micro Devices , first launched in 2000 by ATI Technologies, which was acquired by AMD in 2006. Radeon is the successor to the Rage line. There are four different groups, which can be differentiated by...
chipset with extra features incorporated onto the board. AIW cards run at a lower clock speeds (two exception are the AIW 9600XT / AIW X800XT faster / same speed) than their conventional counterparts to reduce heat and power consumption. In September 2006, it was claimed that development had stopped and all products in the line were discontinued/ In June 2008, AMD revived the product line with an HD
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
model.
Accessories
The cards use a variety of specialised ports along the side to provide output to televisions, with the retail version provided with compositeComposite video
Composite video is the format of an analog television signal before it is combined with a sound signal and modulated onto an RF carrier. In contrast to component video it contains all required video information, including colors in a single line-level signal...
ports and the ability to output to component
Component video
Component video is a video signal that has been split into two or more component channels. In popular use, it refers to a type of component analog video information that is transmitted or stored as three separate signals...
. Later products also comes with a Remote Wonder remote control and a USB RF
Radio frequency
Radio frequency is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals...
receiver to receive radio frequency signals from the remote. Some variants of the All-in-Wonder included FM radio tuning as well. Some analog-based tuners were bundled with Gemstar's Guide Plus+ electronic program guide
Electronic program guide
Electronic program guides and interactive program guides provide users of television, radio, and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming...
for TV listings, while digital-based tuners used TitanTV instead.
Drivers
The AIW card drivers are based on ATI's Catalyst drivers with additional T200 unified stream drivers. Currently, the only operating systems fully supporting TV capture with these cards are Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 98, and 95. Display drivers work on Linux, and TV capture is supported on some cards with the GATOS project.Lineup
| Retail name | Chipset based on | Variants | Digital/analog signal | AVIVO AVIVO ATI Avivo is a set of hardware and low level software features present on the ATI Radeon R520 family of GPUs and all later ATI Radeon products. ATI Avivo was designed to offload video decoding, encoding, and post-processing from a computer's CPU to a compatible GPU... |
Available interface | Introduction date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-in-Wonder HD | Radeon HD 3650 | (Generic only) | Digital/analog | Yes | PCI Express PCI Express PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards... 2.0 |
June 26, 2008 |
| All-in-Wonder X1900 | Radeon X1900 | (Generic only) | Digital/analog | Yes | PCI Express PCI Express PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards... |
January 24, 2006 |
| All-in-Wonder X1800 XL | Radeon X1800 XL | Digital/analog | Yes | PCI Express | November 21, 2005 | |
| All-in-Wonder 2006 PCI Express | Radeon X1300 | (Generic only) | Digital/analog | Yes | PCI Express | December 22, 2005 |
| All-in-Wonder X800 | Radeon X800 | GT (PCI-E only), XL, XT | Analog(/digital on GT) | No | PCI Express, AGP | September 9, 2004 (XT) |
| All-in-Wonder X600 Pro | Radeon X600 Pro | Analog | No | PCI Express | September 21, 2004 | |
| All-in-Wonder 9800 | Radeon 9800 | SE, Pro | Analog | No | AGP | April 7, 2003 |
| All-in-Wonder 9700 | Radeon 9700 Pro | Regular , Pro | Analog | No | AGP | September 30, 2002 February 25, 2003 (Europe, Pro variant) |
| All-in-Wonder 9600 | Radeon 9600 | XT , Pro, Regular | Analog | No | AGP | August 5, 2003 (Pro) January 6, 2004 (Regular, XT) |
| All-in-Wonder 2006 Edition | Radeon 9600 | Analog | No | AGP | Unknown | |
| All-in-Wonder 9200 | Radeon 9200 | Analog | No | AGP, PCI | January 26, 2004 | |
| All-in-Wonder 9000 Pro | Radeon 9000 Pro | Analog | No | AGP | March 31, 2003 | |
| All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 | Radeon 8500 | Regular , 128MB, DV | Analog | No | AGP | August 30, 2001 (DV) |
| All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 | Radeon 7500 | Analog | No | AGP | January 22, 2002 | |
| All-in-Wonder VE | Radeon 7500 | Analog | No | PCI | December 2, 2002 February 25, 2003 (Europe) |
|
| All-in-Wonder Radeon | Radeon 7200 | Analog | No | AGP, PCI | July 31, 2000 | |
| All-in-Wonder 128 | 3D Rage 128 | Regular, Pro | Analog | No | AGP, PCI | January 25, 1999 |
| All-in-Wonder Pro | 3D Rage Pro | Analog | No | AGP, PCI | October 20, 1997 | |
| All-in-Wonder | 3D Rage II+ | 2MB, 4MB | Analog | No | PCI | November 11, 1996 |
External links
- ATI Multimedia Products page
- TechPowerUp Database of GPUs
- General ATI TV and Overlay Software (GATOS) - open-source Linux suite for All-in-Wonder cards