SystemLogic has posted a review on the ATI TV Wonder VE video card

DVD drives have become commonplace on many of the non-budget PCs. Many cards now offer TV-out support, so one could easily use the computer to watch DVDs on a full screen TV. More and more people have shown interest in cards that can do video in, and video out, as shown by ATI´s All-In-Wonder line, along with Matrox´s Marvel series, along with all the VIVO cards that have sprung up, all of which offer the ability (among other things), to watch TV on the computer desktop. Individual TV tuners have been around for a while, but they are finally becoming priced so that they can be more commonplace.

One such example can be found in ATI´s PCI TV Wonder VE. As ATI does with their other lines of cards, the VE stands for "Value Edition," but offers strong features for the price, as it retails for a mere $49US/$79CDN. Considering that with more and more people living in smaller and smaller places (*cough*collegedormrooms*cough*), the ability to save space by not having a stand-alone TV is quite a convenience, considering one could hook up a VCR to the card, and cable to the VCR.

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