Re: ATI All-In-Wonder 9600

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What does ATI say about using the AIW cards in WMCE 2005?

The following is found in Tomshardware.com's review of the ATI AIW x800
XT (see page on "Ease of Use").

"None of ATI's All-In Wonder cards can be found on Microsoft's
"Designed for Windows XP Media Center" list, likely due to Microsoft's
insistence on full hardware MPEG2 compression for the optimal MCE
experience. Nevertheless, ATI has been seeking Microsoft's approval of
the "hardware assisted" compression found in their All-In-Wonder
series. States Paul Janes of ATI: "With CATALYST 5.4 and MMC 9.06.1 you
will be able to make use of MCE 2005 for AIW products based on R300 and
higher. I can confirm that the recording and pausing of Live TV works;
however, this is unofficial and unsupported. ATI will be announcing
support at some point in the future, so stay tuned." So for now you can
expect the card to be completely functional in MCE 2005, but until the
official announcement, you'll have no official support."

So, if you have an AIW using the R300 or later chipset, the AIW should
work in WMCE.

The Radeon 8500DV is probably a non-starter for two reasons: it does
not support DirectX 9.0, and it uses a chipset predating the R300.

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