Which video card has the Radeon 8500 chipset with VIVO only?

[Bad Dude]

I want to get the video card with Radeon 8500 that has 128MB DDR that has video out for TV and video in? However, I don't want the all in wonder b/c I already have the TV card. Please give me some ideas and prices.

Thanks.

 

[Mark0999]

You might need to look for a 3rd party card from Hercules, Powercolor, Gigabyte, etc... to find that option.

 

[rbV5]

Don't you have video-in with your present TV card?

 

[Bad Dude]

Yes I do have video in with my TV card but is it as good as the ATI VIVO?

 

[rbV5]

I think the Rage Theater VIVO chip is the creme of the crop and superior to any of the TV cards including the ATI cards, but the Radeon VIVO cards are limited to composite video-in, instead of offering the superior S-Video input of the AIW cards. My opinion is dump the TV card and get an AIW if you want the best quality captures and most stable package, IF a thrd party was making a VIVO card, it would likely not be competively priced with the ATI card anyway. I'm also not so sure a Radeon VIVO card would play nice with another capture card anyway. Seems I remember that using a TV wonder in conjunction with a Radeon VIVO meant disabling the VIVO of the Radeon and having to use the TV Wonder as the VIVO card as well, which seems to defeat the purpose of having the VIVO to begin with. I simply hooked a VCR to my VIVO anyway and used its tuner from the VCR, no TV card needed.

Looks to me you could either:

Pick up a Radeon 8500 128, and pair it with your present TV card
OR
Pick up a AIW 8500 128
OR
Find a Radeon 8500 128 VIVO(Good luck with this one), and use a VCR as the tuner.

 

[bluemax]

Thanks, you answered my question from another post. I was wondering about better recording than the RCA input of my Radeon VIVO.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Radeon 8500VIVO (AR2DV)