Watching Television with ATI AIW Card

[CrystalDoll]

I have loved being able to watch my cable TV through my computer using my ATI All-In-Wonder 7500 card. However, when I have watched TV these past few days, almost every channel keeps going VERY BRIGHT/VERY DIM every 5 seconds and it very distracting and hard to watch the shows. Adjusting the brightness on my computer doesn't help... I am not trying to record anything, just watch... Any idea why it is doing this, and how to correct it? This just started within the past week or so...

[thecoalman]

That sounds like the old MV protection kicking in which is used to copyprotect video on VHS and other forms of media, never heard of it transmitted through a TV signal though. Try recording the signal to a VHS deck and see if you get the same results.

[vcd_user]

I am using TV wonder VE with a 7500 Video card and have no problem. My first suggestion will be download and install the latest driver from ATI first and see if it makes any difference.

[ebenton]

I used to have an ATI AIW 7500 card. It started doing the same thing after I had it for about a year and a half. I made several attempts to fix it, at first thinking it was a bad connection on my TV cable connector input. I even tried splitting the signal before the input to try to cut down on the "blooming", but nothing worked. Finally I got a new computer with a different graphic card and TV tuner card and Windows Media Center 2005. No problem with that so far, but it hasn't been a year and a half yet, either.

[Krispy Kritter]

I thought the ATI cards carried a 5 year warranty.

[lordsmurf]

I've had the ATI AIW 7200 card since 2001, and it's still doing great. Especially with ATI MMC 8.x and 9.x running.

[ebenton]

I thought the ATI cards carried a 5 year warranty.

Maybe they do, but if you don't have the receipt and haven't registered...

[LOWTECH]

Macrovision detection when its not there in video capturing...now the same when watching TV with the AIW card ......

ATI AIW cards are proving a poor investment to more and more people, as more and more complaints keep rolling in around the video forums............

[lordsmurf]

Macrovision detection when its not there in video capturing...now the same when watching TV with the AIW card ...... ATI AIW cards are proving a poor investment to more and more people, as more and more complaints keep rolling in around the video forums............

Statements like that are so narrow.

False MV detection is an issue with most cards, most DVD recorders and most VCRs. MV is merely a fake error stuffed into a video stream. Real errors can look like MV. So when a device sees a real error, and has BS MV detection (which people are forced to do by overzealous greedy idiots), it chokes and rejects you.

Complain and point fingers all you like. But it's not the fault of ATI or any other maker of any other device. Place blame where blame is due: the MPAA and others like them.

In the meantime, you can either complain endlessly, or get a device that ignores or removes such errors (real or fake). The ATI and many other MV-detecting devices are excellent ... but they need clean signals. And clean signals should be the goal anyway.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=246129

[LOWTECH]

lordsmurf... As I have said before false mv detection with ATI or any other card, is problem that ATI and others need to sort out.

After buying an ATI AIW card after 2 years I then find I cannot capture my 5 year old analogue movies, is no help what so ever saying you have a poor signal and it may cause false mv detection. I like many others were not imformed at the time of purchase false mv may be a problem?

Ati have not put that info on the box, so that people do not buy the product and find their objective cannot be acheived.

My statement may be narrow, but the factual points raised are true.

Further more e-mails to ATI in my case proved fruitless to solve my problem apart from bog standard replys....... With your defence of this ATI product maybe you will have more luck in getting ATI to put more helpful information on their box/packaging and saving myself and as it appears many others wasted time and money.........

[Krispy Kritter]

For what it's worth, I have 2 AIW cards. I have the original AIW Radeon card and a newer AIW 9600. Both cards are still fully functional and I haven't had any issues. The only time I've had any issues similar to what you are seeing, is when I was attempting to capture video input from a DVD player. Otherwise, all is good.

If your TV reception is experiencing issues also, have your cable company come out and check your signal level. Possibly it is too low and causing the problems. I've noticed the tuners in these cards are much more picky about having a good signal before they will tune in a channel.

[CrystalDoll]

Still not sure what caused this problem, but putting in another video card seems to have cleared it up. Needed to upgrade anyways, so switched out the ATI AIW 64mb 7500 for a ATI AIW 128mb 9600....
Thanks for all of the replies, though!