Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:15:29 -0700, archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Nate Edel)
wrote:

>David V. Loewe, Jr <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> >Interesting little things, the tuners.  Two would fit in a
>> >cigarette pack by 1995.  I imagine they are much smaller by now.
>>
>> They fit on video cards (I have an ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro).
>
>Although, at least as of a few years ago (a 2002-vintage AIW 8500), they
>were rather chunky looking things to for on a card.  

<looks at the AIW 8500 the AIW 9800 replaced>

No more so than the GPU/heat sink & fan assembly on that card.

>It looks like they've
>gotten a lot less so - this current ATI half height card
>http://ati.de/products/tvwonder650/PCIe/index.html
has tuners for ATSC,
>NTSC, QAM digital cable, and FM radio and the shielded boxes for the RF
>portion is much smaller than the one on my old AIW which did only NTSC
>(non-digital cable is just an extended NTSC band, right?)
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