HDTV Wonder & TV Wonder Elite

Rogue Frog · Feb 11, 2006, 09:16 AM

The TV Wonder Elite uses hardware encoding so does that mean there will be a delay between what is going on and what you see i.e, playing video games isn't going to fly.

If that is the case, that leaves me with the HDTV Wonder. There should be no delay with this card right although CPU usage would be higher. Any problems with MMC 9.13?

H3X4D3C1M4L · Feb 11, 2006, 03:12 PM

There shouldn't be any delay with the hardware encoder, because it still has to turn the analog signal digital at some point anyway, which my AiW does, and with a program that doesn't use TVoD I can play consoles just fine. The transformation takes time yes but its so close to instantaneous as doesn't matter.

MMC9.13 has problems so far as I know, check out the sticky on the top of the forum

Rogue Frog · Feb 12, 2006, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by H3X4D3C1M4L

There shouldn't be any delay with the hardware encoder, because it still has to turn the analog signal digital at some point anyway, which my AiW does, and with a program that doesn't use TVoD I can play consoles just fine. The transformation takes time yes but its so close to instantaneous as doesn't matter.

MMC9.13 has problems so far as I know, check out the sticky on the top of the forum

I think the AiW X800XT uses the Theatre 200 chip like all other AiWs which isn't true hardware mpeg encoding so there shouldn't be any noticible delay. Whereas the Theatre 550 is a true hardware encoder like the Hauppauge PVR-x50 series... and those all have delay making them not suitable for console gaming but I haven't heard any confirmations with the 550 chip.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Feb 13, 2006, 02:07 AM

Yeah but there isn't any delay anyway when turning analog into digital, the MPEG encoding and such is done by the CPU so again the latency should be so small as doesn't matter.

Hardware MPEG encoding would take latency out and load off the CPU so the 550 and PVR-x50 series should be less laggy if anything

Feb 11, 2006, 09:16 AM	#1
Rogue Frog DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 30 Rep Power: 0	HDTV Wonder & TV Wonder Elite The TV Wonder Elite uses hardware encoding so does that mean there will be a delay between what is going on and what you see i.e, playing video games isn't going to fly. If that is the case, that leaves me with the HDTV Wonder. There should be no delay with this card right although CPU usage would be higher. Any problems with MMC 9.13?

Feb 11, 2006, 03:12 PM	#2
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	There shouldn't be any delay with the hardware encoder, because it still has to turn the analog signal digital at some point anyway, which my AiW does, and with a program that doesn't use TVoD I can play consoles just fine. The transformation takes time yes but its so close to instantaneous as doesn't matter. MMC9.13 has problems so far as I know, check out the sticky on the top of the forum

Feb 13, 2006, 02:07 AM	#4
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	Yeah but there isn't any delay anyway when turning analog into digital, the MPEG encoding and such is done by the CPU so again the latency should be so small as doesn't matter. Hardware MPEG encoding would take latency out and load off the CPU so the 550 and PVR-x50 series should be less laggy if anything