ATI's TV Wonder USB 2.0
ATI's TV Wonder USB 2.0 is an ugly thing, falling well short of aesthetic nirvana.
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Chunky plastic in a couple of shades of grey, topped with the requisite ATI sticker. A red LED sits close by, telling you when there's an active USB connection to the host PC. Not my cup of visual tea I'm afraid. The internal TV tuner assembly is maybe the main reason why it's not housed in something smaller, sleeker and altogether more attractive, since it's a bulky device. ATI's new silicon-tuner based TV Wonder products will allow them to do something a bit more daring with the design. It's functional however, and that's what matters.
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You can see the antenna input for the U.K. version of the device, the TV tuner inside the device handling the analogue PAL broadcast signals the TV Wonder supports. The current iteration of the TV Wonder products only support analogue broadcast tuning, so you'll have a wait a little while longer for a TV Wonder product that tunes free-to-air digital broadcasts (DVB-T).
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As well as broadcast television, the TV Wonder is also able to capture video from S-Video and composite video sources. The Theater 200 is also a highly capable audio processor, so the stereo inputs allow you access to audio to partner your video feed, if you so wish.
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The USB2.0 interface port and the port for the device's 6V power feed are all that's left to look at externally.
